Simon R. Green > Quotes

“There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...”
― Simon R. Green

“Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.”
― Simon R. Green

“It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily along at your side, holding your hand, and smiling sweetly on one and all.”
― Simon R. Green, The Unnatural Inquirer

“If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down.”
― Simon R. Green, Ghostworld (Twilight of the Empire, #2)

“Too many people live the lives other people think they ought to, following orders they don't agree with, for causes they don't believe in. They live lives that don't matter, that touch no one and change nothing. For better or worse, you and I stared evil in the eye and didn't flinch. We raised our swords and went to war, and even if we didn't win we kicked some ass along the way. We made a difference, and that's all any man can ask.”
― Simon R. Green, Deathstalker

“The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.”
― Simon R. Green, Something from the Nightside

“ I went to a house that was not a house. I opened a door that was not a door. And what I saw, I saw.”
― Simon R. Green, Something from the Nightside

“Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things down here, sleeping all around us, in the earth and in the living rock, and in the spaces between spaces. Keep your voices down. Some of these old creatures sleep but lightly, and even their dreams can have force and substance in our limited world. We have come among forgotten gods and sleeping devils, from the days before the world settled down and declared itself sane.”
― Simon R. Green

“When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“I always feel most alive when everything else is dying all around me”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?”
― Simon R. Green

“Are you sure this is a good idea?' whispered the unicorn.
'No,' said Rupert. 'But it's our best chance to find a dragon.'
'Frankly, that doesn't strike me as such a hot idea either,' muttered the unicorn.”
― Simon R. Green, Blue Moon Rising

“Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.”
― Simon R. Green

“The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.”
― Simon R. Green, Ghostworld (Twilight of the Empire, #2)

“After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.”
― Simon R. Green, The Bride Wore Black Leather

“I take it you know my companion?"
Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything."
Your reputation preceds you," Random said dryly to Ruby.”
― Simon R. Green, Deathstalker Honor

“There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.”
― Simon R. Green, Deathstalker Destiny

“Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.”
― Simon R. Green, The Man With the Golden Torc

“It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it doesn't care if you habitually pass by on the other side. It's just there for when you need it. Dedicated to the patron saint of lost causes, St. Jude's is an old old place... St. Jude's isn't a place for comfort for frills and fancies and the trappings of religion. just a place where you can talk to your god and sometimes get an answer.”
― Simon R. Green, Agents of Light and Darkness

“Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.”
― Simon R. Green

“Angel: And what will you do with the world, once it is yours?'
N. Hob: 'Punish it, for not loving me.”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end. ”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“This isn't Hell, it's the Nightside. Thought sometime you can see Hell from here.”
― Simon R. Green, Paths Not Taken

“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?”
― Simon R. Green, The Spy Who Haunted Me

“Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.”
― Simon R. Green, Deathstalker Coda

“When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.”
― Simon R. Green, Guards of Haven: The Adventures of Hawk and Fisher

“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

“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

“Future is like an asshole. Everybody has one.---John Taylor (Nightside Series)”
― Simon R. Green

“What the hell are you doing here? You weren't on the guest list. Hell, you people aren't on anybody's guest list. If you turned up at a funeral, the corpse would walk out on you.”
― Simon R. Green, Deathstalker Rebellion

“Rupert: "... At this rate, somebody is bound to upset the Warlock once too often, and we'll end up with a Court full of bemused looking toads."

"He wouldn't dare use his magic here," said the Champion.

"Don't bet on it," said Rupert. "The High Warlock has all the practicality and self-preservation instincts of a depressed lemming.”
― Simon R. Green, Blue Moon Rising

“I ignored him, concentrating on Lilith. "According to the stories, after you were expelled from Eden you went down into Hell, where you coupled with demons and gave birth to all the monsters that have plagued the world."

"I was young," said Lilith. "You know how it is. We all do things we later regret, when we're being rebellious teenagers.”
― Simon R. Green, Hex and the City

“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.”
― Simon R. Green, Something from the Nightside

“What am I going to do with all these bodies?" Said Jimmy, just a bit plaintively."I can't keep them, I don't have the cupboard space.”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“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