Nick Masters > Nick's Quotes

“Lamb said, ‘If you had issues with him, I could have spoken to HR. Arranged an intervention.’ He tapped Moody’s shoulder with his foot. ‘Breaking his neck without going through your line manager, that shit stays on your record.”
― Mick Herron, Slow Horses

“Doing nothing with friends is never doing nothing, is it?' asked the boy.

'No,' said the mole.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“The fucking deer just took the fucking elevator.”
― David Koepp, Cold Storage

“The key to making time slow down is to have new experiences”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“People in stories were always preparing themselves for the worst, which rarely happened”
― Dean Koontz, Elsewhere

“Our burdens made our spirits stronger and therefore were blessings”
― Dean Koontz, Elsewhere

“The mind and the heart—intellect and emotions, facts and feelings. They’re both important. But to live well, we need to make decisions based on logic and reason modified by emotion. If we’re guided only or even largely by emotion . . . Well, the heart often wants what it doesn’t really need, and sometimes it wants what it shouldn’t have, something with the potential to ruin your life. It wants something so intensely that we find it easy to do what the heart wants even if we know it’s reckless.”
― Dean Koontz, Elsewhere

“Tragedy was not the end of hope, but the birthing ground of new hope”
― Dean Koontz, Elsewhere

“Without risk there was no reward worth having, because rewards without risk were just strokes of luck”
― Dean Koontz, Elsewhere

“but sad moment were to be celebrated as much as happy ones, or half the liquor in the world would go undrunk”
― Mick Herron, Slough House

“History has an open-door policy. Any fool can walk right in”
― Mick Herron, Slough House

“If everyone succeeded, nobody did”
― Mick Herron, Slough House

“We’re Slough House’, he said. Then added, ‘Hasta la vista baby,’ before following the others down the stairs”
― Mick Herron, Slough House

“regard him as a cross between a game show host and a cartoon yeti”
― Mick Herron, Slough House

“Every house has a story to tell.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“Thoroughly Thought Through”
― Stephen Fry, Revenge

“There are somethings you can’t try to understand. You’d go mad trying”
― Sarah Pinborough, Insomnia