"Layer Cake" Quotes
A high-stakes and gritty crime novel that follows a nameless protagonist navigating the treacherous underworld of drug dealing in London.
fiction | 344 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The first rule of the Layer Cake is, you don't know who you're dealing with.
You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like.
The more people you kill, the more people you meet.
There's no such thing as retirement in our profession. You're in until you're out.
The only people who can break the rules are those who know how to play them.
In our game, you get killed if you don't use your head.
Everyone has their own cake, and their own game too.
A man who can't keep a secret is a man who can't keep his word.
Money ain't got no owners, only spenders.
There are only two ways to leave this business: dead or completely broke.
