Craig Russell > Quotes

“Maybe it would be best,” she said at last, “if you left the Devil alone in his hiding place.”
― Craig Russell, The Devil Aspect

“I think it allows the public to enjoy the thrill of a story without the fear of the reality. The reality is too much to bear, so they detach themselves from it. That’s maybe how all myths were born.”
― Craig Russell, The Devil Aspect

“I will return,” the voice hissed in Viktor’s ear. “I will return and show you the truth and you will be blinded by it. I will show you such horror and fear that you will be burned by its beauty and its clarity.”
― Craig Russell, The Devil Aspect

“He was a bad, bad bastard. He abused the privilege of being a cunt, as my old Da would say.’ I smiled, picturing the cozy fireside scene of young son on father’s knee being inducted into the world of abusive epithets.”
― Craig Russell, The Long Glasgow Kiss

“Greater still than the arrogance of men is the ire and malice of subjugated women.”
― Craig Russell, The Devil's Playground: A Novel

“No son gente de ideas, los polis. El pensamiento tiene la irritante costumbre de sabotear las certidumbres.”
― Craig Russell, The Long Glasgow Kiss

“She would, she realized, never understand men - not because of their complexity, but because of their simplicity.”
― Craig Russell, The Devil's Playground: A Novel

“Subí a mi habitación y me serví un whisky. Gran error: al primer trago me entraron arcadas. Me estaba haciendo viejo para aquellos trotes.”
― Craig Russell, The Long Glasgow Kiss

“El sistema legal escocés en acción. Un modelo de justicia y equidad que considera inocente a cualquier hombre hasta que se demuestra que es catolico.”
― Craig Russell, The Long Glasgow Kiss

“Some concepts are alien to the Glaswegian mind. Salad. Dentistry. Forgiveness.”
― Craig Russell, The Long Glasgow Kiss

“The major part of the meeting had been devoted to allocating resources to the various investigative tasks, the first of which was to get almost everyone on the job of identifying the dead girl.
The dead girl. Fabel was steadfastly committed to uncovering her identity, but it was that moment he dreaded most:
when the body became a person and the case number became a name.”
― Craig Russell, Brother Grimm

“I especially liked it when, at the end, they begged for their lives. When they did that—and they all did that eventually—I would pretend to hesitate and see in their eyes the glimmer of a final, desperate hope. I let them have that for an instant. Then, I took it away. That—that extinguishing of their very last hope—I savored more than anything, even more than the extinguishing of their lives.
You see, it was at that moment they could feel the presence of the Devil and would beg God to come and deliver them from him. And it was in that moment that I made them see—that they finally realized—God had been there all along. It was then they understood: the Devil was just God in his night attire.”
― Craig Russell, The Devil Aspect

“It was a hot, sunny, bright day. People don't realize it, but that is when loneliness is the sharpest, it cuts the deepest - when the sun shines, and everything else is bright and warm.”
― Craig Russell, The Devil Aspect