Kill Your Friends

Right now you can hear fear rattling around the taxiing aircraft in her socially acceptable disguise: bravado

These decisions are often predicated on no more than a hunch or a rumour and are often made under the influence of drugs, alcohol, peer-group pressure and fear

To drive your enemies before you and hear the lamentations of their women

or something. Nicky got fucked out of the lot. Sometimes, when she’s talking, I’ll steal a glance at Trellick or Schneider as they listen to her, their expressions saying the same thing: how the fuck do you have the nerve to leave the house and show your face among decent society

Given that its Managing Director’s idea of a reasonable evening’s entertainment involves paying a couple of rent boys to kick the living shit out of him, it seems logical enough that greed, viciousness, duplicity, exploitation, hedonism and aggression feature prominently among the values our company encourages and rewards

YOU UNDERSTAND?’
‘But–’ Rob is going down, drowning.
‘DO YOU FUCKING UN-DER-STAND?’ Derek pounds his fist on the table six times, with ‘understand’ getting three of them. Total silence

Some people frequently dig their own graves in these meetings. Rob is building himself a fucking mausoleum

He’s a genuinely nice guy who has good taste in music and treats people with dignity and respect and the closest he ever comes to a hit record is when he has a wander round HMV on a Saturday. That’s right, he’s a fucking loser and how he ever

mean, he looks like fucking Caligula or something, mad and ravaged

admit it, the guy is something of a puzzle to me