The Glass God Quotes

“I’m a little vague on the details but aren’t doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“nine times out of ten I’ve no idea what I’m saying and I’m only ever nice to people because I don’t have the charisma or the knowledge or any of that to get away with witty put-downs,”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“Sharon exuded the brightness of a firefly, the confidence of a double-decker bus, the optimism of a hedgehog and the tact of a small thermonuclear missile.”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“Sharon spoke slowly and carefully. It was, she’d found, the best way to create an illusion of shamanly wisdom, as people often mistook cautious speech for being thoughtful instead of panic-struck.”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“I’ve been reading up on management speak, and I’m guessing that where you say, 'somewhat clouded', what you really mean is 'totally down the pan and in the shit'?”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“Give me back to us!”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“She would have liked a drink, but staying awake was proving a challenge and somehow, she felt, as deputy Midnight Mayor she was still on duty. So she cradled an orange juice, whose contents were two parts ice to five parts acid to one part remnant of the colour orange, and trod on her own toes under the table in an effort to remain awake.”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“Ain’t no such thing as a god… just an idea with a purpose, that’s all, and usually some bloody stupid bloody naïve purpose made up by people what ain’t got the brains to figure shit out for themselves.”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“Sharon had read a lot of books on the subject of human society and psychology, and after a great deal about social identity and pack spirit, had taken away this simple conclusion: It is far better to talk bollocks at great length and feel okay about it, than to talk about nothing at all and end up killing people.”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“all paperwork is, pardon my language, Ms Li, pestilential putrefaction designed to confound the real work of society in a quagmire of bullshit?”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“We are
the scylla sisters.
We love
each other
so much
though sometimes it hurts
and sometimes it is joy
and always
together.
We love each other.
Because no one else will.”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“There was something, Rhys concluded, in the sound of rising steam that lent itself to calm. Essentially, water was being excited to dangerous temperatures; so this calm had to be a cultural thing, born out of four hundred years of the British drinking tea. But it was hard to imagine that anyone could get really fraught when there was a cup of tea in the offing.”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“At least with magical portals and mystic byways, you had a reasonably good chance that economics and time constraints confined the journey to just a few minutes of scrambling around through geographically unsound temporal mists. In the small hours of the morning, the air cold and damp, and the sun not yet even a glow on the eastern horizon, it was more of a challenge to get back using nothing more than the urban travel infrastructure.”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God

“Little Lion Street was presumably named after an incident hundreds of years ago which concerned something little and almost certainly involved a street but, Rhys felt, had in no way included a lion.”
― Kate Griffin, The Glass God