Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites QUOTES

1 " See, you have the choice we didn’t. You wanna think about it though, you do, before you decide to throw your lot in with us. Cause it’s not just about living in society’s stitches, you know, the bits in between, the squats and secret places. It’s about being Fixed. "

― Hal Duncan , Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

3 " Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good character is marked by his impeccable attire. "

― Hal Duncan , Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

5 " But functional was not an aesthetic criterion that Flashjack, as a faery, had terribly high on his list of priorities; it was well below shiny and nowhere near weird. "

― Hal Duncan , Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

7 " – Burning lemurs of bloody Madagascar! "

― Hal Duncan , Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

9 " Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important. "

― Hal Duncan , Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

11 " I’d take you home with me, see, but two of us in the same Behold? Just wouldn’t work, ends up in all sorts of squabbles over interior design; and the human, well, one faery in the Behold of the Eye, that just gives them a little twinkle of imagination, but more than one and it’s like a bloody fireworks display. They get all unstable and artistic, blinded by the glamour of everything, real or imagined, concrete or abstract. They get confused between beauty and truth and meaning, you see, start thinking every butterfly-brained idea must be true; before you know it they’ve gone schizo on you and you’re in a three-way firefight with all the angels and the demons, them and their bloody ideologies. "

― Hal Duncan , Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

13 " They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals instant death, but the other – the one marked Matelotage – deals instant love, like the very darts of Eros. And who, I ask ye, who can stand up to love? "

― Hal Duncan , Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

15 " The pleasures of the flesh are sweet.
– Mmm, flesh, said Puck. "

― Hal Duncan , Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites