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81 " Always listen to your paranoia. It’s keeping you alive and almost certainly has more sense than you do. "
― Jodi Taylor , Hope for the Best (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #10)
82 " Thinking carefully is something that happens to other people. "
― Jodi Taylor , Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
83 " I don’t know how to put this, but sometimes, you don’t know how unhappy someone is until you see them before the unhappiness. "
― Jodi Taylor , Christmas Present (The Chronicles of St Mary's #4.5)
84 " I personally think humans have got about as far as we can go. We’re wrecking the planet. We’re never short of good reasons to massacre each other. Wrong god. Wrong race. Wrong colour. Wrong sex. "
― Jodi Taylor , A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #4)
85 " If you want someone dead then do it. I keep saying this. Don’t gloat – just shoot. "
86 " A bit over-optimistic there, I thought. I once got lost on a staircase. "
87 " The three of them must disappear. Start a new life in a strange, new, foreign world. America, maybe. Or Manchester. "
― Jodi Taylor , No Time Like the Past (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #5)
88 " Beautiful books, full of knowledge and beauty and ideas. All lost, thanks to a mad monk who, in the end, became a little too mad even for the church he served. "
89 " Green food is good for you’ ‘Can’t I have mint choc-chip ice-cream instead? "
90 " Yes, yes, I did. I did this. I locked my pod. He couldn’t get to safety. "
91 " And of course, in rounders, the balls don’t usually come at you with homicidal intent. That’s hockey. "
― Jodi Taylor , Lies, Damned Lies, and History (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #7)
92 " Maybe a pig would fly past with a nice cup of tea. "
― Jodi Taylor , A Symphony of Echoes (The Chronicles of St. Mary's, #2)
93 " And it’s not just any old panic. It’s highly trained panic. It’s taken years of hard work and practice. Please don’t mock. "
94 " The truth is always important. It may not be popular, or fashionable, or convenient but it is always important. Somewhere there must always be a record of events as they actually occurred. Not the politically airbrushed record, or religious wishful thinking or the socially acceptable version, but the often inconvenient truth. "
― Jodi Taylor , The Very First Damned Thing (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #0.5)
95 " ‘There was – will be – an outbreak of flu. There's one nearly every year, I know, but this one was a killer. And cruel. It took the old and the young. Anyone from twenty to fifty only seemed to get it mildly. Other people, the ones outside that age group, just dropped and died. It was that quick. "
96 " He'll stand up for you and protect you and kill dragons for you, but he won't always know that sometimes, he's the dragon "
― Jodi Taylor , The Nothing Girl (Frogmorton Farm, #1)
97 " The pay is terrible and the conditions are worse, but it’s a wonderful place to work – they have some talented people there. "
98 " In an organisation that already contains you, Dr Maxwell, the acquisition of any further irritants would be superfluous. "
― Jodi Taylor , What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #6)
99 " I am being nice to you. It’s not my fault you’re too thick to notice. "
― Jodi Taylor , The Steam Pump Jump (The Chronicles of St Mary’s, #9.6)
100 " I really don’t know why these things are always passed down through the male line – girl children are much more robust than their brothers, and let’s face it, Max – while here may always be doubt about the identity of the father, most people are usually fairly clear about who the mother is. "