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61 " I saw myself as a knight-errant...but the damsel in distress stabbed me in the back, my sword shattered on the dragon's hide, and my grail turned out to be the bottom of a whiskey bottle. "
― Simon R. Green , Something from the Nightside (Nightside, #1)
62 " I am the scalpel that cuts out infection, and the heartbreak that makes men wiser. "
― Simon R. Green , Hex and the City (Nightside, #4)
63 " Nothing is ever really lost. The memories of good friends and good times are always there, never more than a thought away. In a sense, they never really stopped happening. Every moment you ever treasured, every friend you ever valued is still there, separated from us only by time; the past is still happening and always will be. It's only we who have moved on. "
― Simon R. Green , Deathstalker War (Deathstalker, #3)
64 " sometimes dreams are all that can keep you going. Give them up, and you’re dead. "
65 " No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us "
― Simon R. Green , Drinking Midnight Wine
66 " Because when you wear a mask long enough, it gets really hard to take it off. The mask becomes your face. "
― Simon R. Green , Casino Infernale (Secret Histories, #7)
67 " While the cat’s away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity. "
― Simon R. Green , Daemons Are Forever (Secret Histories, #2)
68 " Just because we protect the world, it doesn’t mean the world is always grateful. "
69 " Future is like an asshole. Everybody has one.---John Taylor (Nightside Series) "
― Simon R. Green
70 " You know how it is, boss; you’re out on the town with a few friends, drinking it up; you’re young, you've got incendiaries... shit happens. "
― Simon R. Green , The Bride Wore Black Leather (Nightside, #12)
71 " God does so love to make a man break a promise. "
72 " I chose to help people, because there’d been no-one there to help me when I needed it. "
73 " I am not weird!” I said. “I’m just differently normal. "
― Simon R. Green , The Spy Who Haunted Me (Secret Histories, #3)
74 " The Nightside CSI is only one man, pleasant enough, calm and easy going, and very professional. It probably helps that he has multiple personality disorder with a sub-personality for every speciality and discipline in his profession. One to handle fingerprints, another to examine blood splatter or look for magical residues...He's really quite good at his job though he does tend to argue with himself.Between himself he knows everything he needs to know. Each sub-personality has a different voice. Some of them are women. I've never asked. "
― Simon R. Green , A Hard Day's Knight (Nightside, #11)
75 " Eddie Drood: Is this why we become agents? To play games, to chase after secrets that are rarely worth all the blood spilled on their behalf...To end up stabbed in the back, just when you thought you'd won, bleeding out in some nameless backstreet...With most people never even knowing who you were, or what you did, or why it mattered? "
76 " It's always thoughts of family that drive me crazy, and it's always my friends who bring me back.Agents of Light and Darkness p.218 "
― Simon R. Green , Agents of Light and Darkness (Nightside, #2)
77 " I love to dance!" she said cheerfully."Sometimes I think the whole world should be put to music and choreographed!""This being the Nightside, someone somewhere is undoubtedly working on that very thing, right now. "
― Simon R. Green , Nightingale's Lament (Nightside, #3)
78 " Families – can’t live with them – can’t take them down to the river and drown them all in sacks. "
79 " Worship Me Like the Goddess I Am or There Will Be Some Serious Smiting." Jubilee "
80 " Who ... what are they?" "My pride and glory," Alex said fondly. "Betty and Lucy Coltrane. Best damned bouncers in the business. Though of course I'd never tell them that. Fiercer than pit bulls and cheaper to run. Married to each other. They had a dog once, but they ate it. "