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Colin Cotterill Quotes

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

Colin Cotterill
Hero, Littles, Eggshells

Honesty can be a dirty gift.

Colin Cotterill
Honesty, Dirty
Colin Cotterill (2014). “Thirty-Three Teeth”, p.51, Open Road Media

He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it.

Colin Cotterill
Memories, Hands, Years
Colin Cotterill (2014). “The Coroner's Lunch”, p.79, Open Road Media

This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is. It's called a spirit.

Colin Cotterill
Love, Sweet, Ideas
Colin Cotterill (2017). “The Coroner's Lunch”, p.195, Soho Press

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