quotes by Simon R. Green

"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

"Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from."
— Simon R. Green (The Man With the Golden Torc)

""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)

"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)

"Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes."
— Simon R. Green

"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

"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)