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141 " The next few rooms held a severed hand that was trying to grow itself a new body; a Time Agent whose latest regeneration had gone terribly wrong, turning him inside out; and a sorry-looking werewolf with mange. "
― Simon R. Green , The Man with the Golden Torc (Secret Histories, #1)
142 " No-one’s used a wand in the Nightside for centuries. Wands went out with black cats and pointy hats. (All right, the Faerie Court still use them, but the Fae have always been weird.) "
― Simon R. Green , Paths Not Taken (Nightside, #5)
143 " First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn’t have all his own fingers. "
― Simon R. Green , Spirits from Beyond (Ghost Finders, #4)
144 " Big corporations aren’t always the bad guys; but it’s the sensible way to bet. "
145 " This is like when we have an argument," Happy said to Melody. "And you go stomping around the room, being mad at me but refusing to say what's wrong because I'm supposed to know. And I never do. "
― Simon R. Green , Ghost of a Dream (Ghost Finders, #3)
146 " I’ve been here a long time,” I said finally. “But I think what I truly believe in is people. They can always surprise you. They have such potential . . . They can change and grow and become so much more than they or anyone else would ever have thought possible. Unlike gods. And at the end of the day, I believe that people should be kind to each other. "
― Simon R. Green , Tales from the Nightside
147 " No damned thing from the vasty deeps is going to get the better of me in my own home. "
148 " They burn down Satanist churches, perform exorcisms on politicians, and they once crucified a street mime. Upside down. And then they set fire to him. A lot of people applauded. "
― Simon R. Green , Hell to Pay (Nightside, #7)
149 " A defrocked heretic accountant, Grimm had learned just enough mathemagics to be a nuisance, if not actually dangerous, and had been thrown out of the Accountants’ Guild for unethical use of imaginary numbers. "
― Simon R. Green , The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny (Nightside, #10)
150 " I am large. I contain multitudes,” I said solemnly. “Especially on Tuesdays. "
― Simon R. Green , Live and Let Drood (Secret Histories, #6)
151 " Are you really as good as they say?” “No,” she said calmly. “We’re better. "
― Simon R. Green , Swords of Haven (Hawk and Fisher, #1-3)
152 " Every day there’s something which makes me think ‘I’d better ask Dad about that, I wonder whatMother would say…’ and then I remember, and the day seems a little colder. "
153 " Beyond a certain point, hope is more than self-indulgence. It’s self-harm. "
154 " Isn't the ambience growing on you?""If it does, I'll scrape it off. "
― Simon R. Green , Deathstalker (Deathstalker, #1)
155 " Never look back,” I said wisely. “All you’ll ever see are lost opportunities creeping up on you with bad intent. "
― Simon R. Green , Casino Infernale (Secret Histories, #7)
156 " Don’t you dare try to out-gloom me. I’m the only one here entitled to indulge in deep dark existential brooding. "
157 " Oh come on!” I said. “If Walker couldn’t control me with his Voice, did you really think you stood any chance? I’ve been around. I’ve stepped on worse things than you! I’ve faced angels, from Above and Below! I don’t bow down to anyone! I’m John Taylor! "
158 " I looked down at the Nightside, spread out before me like the most seductive whore in the world. Promising everything and anytthing, her wide smile and inviting eyes hiding the cold calculation in her heart. "
― Simon R. Green
159 " It's only a short step from a burning bush to a burning heretic, after all. I try not to bother God, and hope He'll do me the same courtesy. "
― Simon R. Green , Agents of Light and Darkness (Nightside, #2)
160 " His interest lay in researching and piecing together the Empire’s somewhat tangled history. Nothing excited him like reaching into the morass of legend and myth that made up so much of the past and producing one indisputable new fact, clear and sharp as a diamond in a coal mine. And if he’d learned one thing from all the histories he’d read and the tales he’d investigated, it was that most of the time there was no glory and damn all honor to be found on the battlefield. Only blood and mud and the endless bitterness of lost hopes. "