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161 " Why don't you just shoot yourself in the head now and get it over with? "
― Simon R. Green , Hex and the City (Nightside, #4)
162 " All the assassins that could have come after me, and I had to get a double-jointed contortionist kick-boxer. "
― Simon R. Green , Deathstalker (Deathstalker, #1)
163 " Toby had spent three years living in the East End of London, back when he was a student, an area that would have profited greatly from a heavily armed UN Peacekeeping force. Lacking the funds necessary to reach the more civilized areas of London, toby endured three very long years... "
― Simon R. Green , Drinking Midnight Wine
164 " It’s not your uncle Harvey again, is it?” I said. “The one who thinks he’s a giant rabbit? "
― Simon R. Green , The Spy Who Haunted Me (Secret Histories, #3)
165 " Have you got any bow-ties?” I asked Caradoc. “Bow-ties are cool. The Travelling Doctor said so. "
― Simon R. Green , Casino Infernale (Secret Histories, #7)
166 " Also present, unfortunately for all, was the Painted Ghoul. The clown at midnight himself, dressed in a bloodstained clown’s costume composed of deliberately clashing colours. The Painted Ghoul’s face was daubed with distressing patterns, and when he smiled his big red smile, you could see he’d filed his teeth into sharp points. His over-bright eyes were full of a malevolent glee. There’s nothing funny about a clown with an erection. "
― Simon R. Green , Property of a Lady Faire (Secret Histories, #8)
167 " If they could only have gathered their thoughts for a moment, they would have known these fears weren’t real, "
― Simon R. Green , Agents of Light and Darkness (Nightside, #2)
168 " The mug had World’s Best Secret Agent on one side and Please Don’t Tell Anyone on the other. My "
― Simon R. Green , Dr. DOA (Secret Histories, #10)
169 " just as before we had to go the long way round, to avoid Timeslips and places where directions were often a matter of opinion. "
― Simon R. Green , Paths Not Taken (Nightside, #5)
170 " The haunted typewriter clacked busily away to my left, operated by a journalist who was murdered several years ago, but hadn't let a little thing like being dead interfere with his work. "
― Simon R. Green , Nightingale's Lament (Nightside, #3)
171 " It smelled like breathing someone’s underwear. "
― Simon R. Green , Night Fall (Secret Histories, #12)
172 " The gargoyles were always the first to make it clear when you were out of favour with the paper, and some of them had uncanny aim and absolutely no inhibitions when it came to bodily functions. "
173 " You put butter in a pocket watch and it’s bound to mess up the works even if it is the very best butter. "
174 " Not that far away, Ms. Fate, the Nightside’s very own leather-costumed transvestite superheroine, was dancing on a tabletop with demon girl reporter Bettie Divine. "
― Simon R. Green , Tales from the Nightside
175 " Please don’t try and hug me. Everyone always wants to hug me, and I am not the hugging type. "
176 " And a quartet of fuzzy post-nuclear mutants were showing each other strange alien porn on the televisions they had implanted in their stomachs. "
― Simon R. Green , A Hard Day's Knight (Nightside, #11)
177 " He always had some experiment or another on the go, usually involving boiling liquids and unpleasant smells. Always something bubbling in the cauldron or cooking in the small stone oven. One wall was hidden behind rows of metal cages, set one upon the other; containing animals and birds and reptiles and a few other things not so easily identified. Because you never knew when you'd need a subject to try something out on. And of course there were shelves and shelves of glass jars, holding herbs and insect parts, mandrake root and other disturbing things. Some of the things in the jars were still moving. Because alchemy's like that. "
― Simon R. Green , Once in a Blue Moon (Hawk & Fisher, #8)
178 " Only people like us still kept a watchful eye on Lud’s Drum, because dimensional barriers in and around the town had been dangerously weak ever since Timothy Leary dropped a heroic dose of LSD and peyote there and tried to perform a remote exorcism on the Pentagon. "
― Simon R. Green , Daemons Are Forever (Secret Histories, #2)
179 " Men,” said Suzie. “Why don’t you just get them out and measure them? "
― Simon R. Green , Just Another Judgement Day (Nightside, #9)
180 " with a whim of iron. "
― Simon R. Green , Hell to Pay (Nightside, #7)