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Jonathan L. Howard QUOTES

1 " No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear? "

― Jonathan L. Howard , The Fear Institute (Johannes Cabal, #3)

2 " They served to remind Cabal - should a reminder ever be necessary - why his social skills were so poor: people were loathsome and not worth the practise. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal, #2)

3 " Guns don't kill people. People kill people.'
'But guns make it so much easier. Shall we go? "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal, #2)

4 " My God. Johannes, are you saying that you’re accepting this task because I asked you?’ Cabal did not reply. Instead he found a loose thread on the eiderdown and fiddled distractedly with it. Horst sat on the side of the bed, embraced his brother around the shoulders with one arm, and rubbed the top of his head with the knuckles of the other. ‘Horst!’ snapped Cabal. ‘I am no longer eight years old!’ Horst kissed him on the top of the head. ‘You’ll always be my little brother, Johannes, even if you look older than me now. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , The Brothers Cabal (Johannes Cabal, #4)

5 " Horst, you are a good man. You have always been so, and your soul is an untrammelled thing indeed.’ Horst winced and interrupted. ‘Ah. Well. Maybe not. There was that business with a lacrosse team…’ Now it was Cabal’s turn to wince. ‘Did anyone suffer?’ ‘Oh, no. Nothing like that.’ ‘Was everyone happy?’ ‘I flatter myself a little to think, yes. Everyone was very nice afterwards, anyway.’ ‘Then shut up. In a world as grimy and sin-ridden as ours, you’re a paragon precisely because your intentions are always good.’ ‘Johannes, I killed a man.’ ‘Pffft. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , The Brothers Cabal (Johannes Cabal, #4)

6 " Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Katya's World (Russalka Chronicles, #1)

7 " All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Katya's World (Russalka Chronicles, #1)

8 " Everyone is so desensitised that the potency of artfully deployed italics has long been lost. It was good enough for H. P. Lovecraft, but apparently it isn’t good enough for the modern world, filled as it is with obtuse bastards. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , The Fear Institute (Johannes Cabal, #3)

9 " Not entirely fair?" His voice became that of the inferno: a rushing, booming howl of icy evil that flew around the great cavern, as swift and cold as the Wendigo on skates. "I am Satan, also called Lucifer the Light Bearer..."
Cabal winced. What was it about devils that they always had to give you their whole family history?
"I was cast down from the presence of God himself into this dark, sulfurous pit and condemned to spend eternity here-"
"Have you tried saying sorry?" interrupted Cabal.
"No, I haven't! I was sent down for a sin of pride. It rather undermines my position if I say 'sorry'! "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)

10 " I don't want power. I just want things back the way they were, back to the good old days when we didn't have to be polite to Nazis. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , After the End of the World (Carter & Lovecraft, #2)

11 " ... the first few minutes of a person's death are the most vitally important minutes of opportunity for a necromancer, [so] Cabal added, "Look, I have to go. Without the necessary chemicals, we'll lose whatever wits are still floating around his cooling brain. The only more immediate alternative that I can think of is a Tantric ritual involving necrophiliac sodomy and, frankly, I don't think my back is up to it. So, if you will excuse me? "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal, #2)

12 " Horst passed him a bottle he had picked up in his rapid trip from there to here. Remarkably, it's contents had survived the transit. "Drink this," he said, unmoved by Cabal's anger. "You need to save your voice for your next session."
Cabal took the bottle testily and swigged from it. there was a moments pause, just long enough for Cabal's expression to change from testy to horrified revulsion. He spat the liquid violently onto the grass like a man who has got absent-minded with the concentrated nitric acid and a mouth pipette. He glared at Horst as he took off his spectacles and wiped his suddenly weeping eyes "Disinfectant? You give me disinfectant to drink?"
Horst's surprise was replaced with mild amusement. "It's root beer, Johannes. Have you never had root beer?"
Cabal looked suspiciously at him, then at the bottle "People drink this?"
"Yes."
"For non-medical reasons?"
"That's right."
Cabal shook his head in open disbelief. "They must be insane. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)

13 " Leonie Barrow's voice was quiet but clear. With Marechal's eyes on her, she said, "Cabal is more dangerous then you can believe, Count. Both the angels and the devils fear him. He's a monster, but an evenhanded one. I know he is capable of the most appalling acts of evil." Her glance moved to Cabal, who was listening dispassionately. "I believe he is also capable of great good. But to predict which he will do next isn't easy or safe."

Marechal grimaced. "What is your association with this man? Public relations or something?"

"I loathe him," she said with sudden venom. The, more quietly, "And I admire him. You're right; he didn't have to come back. He's taken a big risk, but I know he's taken bigger. I can't tell you whether he's a monster or playing the hero right now, but I know one thing. You made the biggest mistake of your life when you made an enemy of him. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal, #2)

14 " She's a bike. A tart. A slut. She'll be buried in a Y-shaped coffin. A baggage. A hussy. She's the good time that was had by all. A wanton floozy." She looked closely at him, but he still seemed to be stuck on cricket. "A nymphomaniac."
The use of a technical term shook him from his paralysis. Realisation flooded his face and a silent "Oh!" filled his mouth. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal, #2)

15 " He smiled, and it was like a bloodless cut. 'No,' he replied, amused by something. 'No, not a doctor. I haven't the bedside manner for it. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal, #2)

16 " No. The dream was just my subconscious mind's way of drawing attention to something I'd seen without perceiving its significance. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal, #2)

17 " Cabal took her arm, and they processed towards the cafe like old friends, or at least the sort of old friends in which the lady wears a somewhat smug smile while the gentleman scowls darkly. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal, #2)

18 " As the barman’s hand rose from beneath the bar, Cabal was filled with a presentiment and a strange foreboding that he hadn’t felt since the last time he’d watched the nightmare corpse city of R’lyeh rise, effulgent with the ineffable and fetid with fish, rise from the depths of the Pacific. "

― Jonathan L. Howard

19 " Thwarted, Cabal had settled on a Senzan revolver, but at least had the mild pleasure of finding one in an equally untidy calibre -- 10.35 mm. His mind was usually quite pristine, but --O secret sin!-- he had always taken a perverse joy in dangling decimals. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal, #2)

20 " Cats, as any rational person knows, are solitary, opportunistic, ambush predators, much like spiders, but with fewer legs and a better fan club. "

― Jonathan L. Howard , The Fear Institute (Johannes Cabal, #3)