Stiletto Quotes

“Plus, anyone who wants to clone himself is usually an asshole. You don’t want any more of those running around than absolutely necessary.” “So”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“If Judas Iscariot were alive, and a woman, and attending formal functions, wearing this dress would still represent a disproportionate punishment for his sins.” “Her”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“I don't care what you people say...we are not using a font that does not have fucking serifs." - Rook Myfanwy Thomas”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“The interior of the animal was much as one would expect: close and dark and damp, with an odd smell. It was rather, Odette thought, like trying to enter a really popular nightclub on New Year’s Eve.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“You're a tool, to be used and directed for the good of the people. Sometimes you'll be a scalpel, cutting out disease. Sometimes you'll be a sword, and you'll take on threats with all the strength you can muster. And sometimes, Odette, you'll be a stiletto, a hidden weapon that slides quietly into the heart.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“Having someone prancing around with an active chain saw while the ground shifted seemed spectacularly unwise.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“But His Majesty Carlos II, king of Spain; duke of Milan, Lothier, Brabant, Limburg, and Luxembourg; count of Flanders, Hainaut, and Namur; and count palatine of Burgundy, the anointed sovereign to whom the governor-general owed his sworn allegiance, was, not to put too fine a point on it, completely fucking useless.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“The intricacies of etiquette in the supernatural world would make Emily Post (want to) stab herself in the heart with a fork... Admittedly, it would be (with) whichever fork was completely appropriate for the occasion.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“A little old lady came walking by with two Scottie dogs in little tartan coats. She sat down on the bench by Odette and silently took her hand. Nothing was said between them, but they held hands until Odette ran out of tears. The lady gave her a clean handkerchief, and Odette mumbled something thankful.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“There is no way this conversation is not going to get horrible, thought Odette. No situation is improved by the presence of a gigantic anus. At”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“Don’t think of it as urine,” Pawn Odgers advised her. “Try to think of it as an olfactory disguise.” Felicity tried and was not measurably comforted. “But”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“No situation is improved by the presence of a gigantic anus.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“The key, as when one interacted with kindergartners, was not to acknowledge the immeasurable horror of what you were dealing with.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“Kasturi, the second housemate, was hibernating on a plinth in her bedroom. I must remember to go in and dust her, Felicity told herself.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“Oh, and he’s missing an eye.” “Right,” said the trooper. He sounded a little taken aback. “Brilliant, we’re on it.” He spoke into his radio, issued instructions. “So, which eye is he missing?” “This one,” she said, holding up her hand.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“It sounded like someone was cramming a metric ton of live weasels into a phone box,”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“„But I hate her,” protested Odette.
“Oh, I’m sure you think you do,” said Marcel cheerfully, “but you’re still young. It takes decades to really hate someone.” Odette sighed heavily. “I’ll tell you what, if, after fifteen years, you still think you hate her, we’ll do something about it.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“and a lad from the Estate whose tonsils had needed to come out and that now spent their time fluttering in the air around him and chirping cheerfully.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“We’ve had plenty of skeletons in our closets,” continued Thomas. “Hell, one of our Rooks was a skeleton. And he was in the closet as well, come to think of it.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“Alessio reached out and took the suit as if it were made out of the scrota of war criminals.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“Historically, its primary industries had been agriculture and a sort of willful illiteracy.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“For instance, in the eighteenth century, a brilliant young student from the University of Ingolstadt caught the eye of members of the Broederschap. His work with galvanism and chemistry was deemed to have tremendous potential, and they recruited him. He was given a thorough grounding in the core principles of the brotherhood’s techniques, but he chafed at their restrictions and eventually went rogue, disappearing to pursue his own research. Agents scoured the known world for him, but it was years before five Chimerae were dispatched to the Arctic, where he had constructed and animated a monstrous being using cadavers and lightning. Four of the five troops were killed, but the rogue doctor and his creation also died out there on the ice.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“This time, there weren’t even any screams. The rest of the police decided to wait quietly for the arrival of someone who was being paid enough to deal with this shite. The”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“[A]s someone who has seen living forms changed and twisted beyond recognition...' She trailed off awkwardly.

'Yeah?'

'I hate to say it, but this dress is the worst crime against nature I have ever seen in my life.'

Felicity cringed a little. The dress lay on the bed, malignant and resentful, like an angry jellyfish. It was technically an evening grown, in the same way that dirt is technically edible.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“The earliest mention of the place dated from a history of Macbeth, the king of Scotland, who had been struck down with food poisoning whilst passing through (an anecdote that was somehow left out of the play). Apparently, between bouts of vomiting, the monarch had expressed his mild incredulity that the town continued to exist, and that had been in 1050. Since”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“her dearest friends has been extremely painful for her, but most especially the death of her lover. Alessio knows to avoid talking about them to her, and I would ask you to do the same.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“anyone who wants to clone himself is usually an asshole. You don’t want any more of those running around than absolutely necessary.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“Pawn William Goode, after being disemboweled by a Grafter, haughtily re-emboweled himself and then backhanded his opponent, sending him flying nine miles.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“sine qua non”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto

“Odette says that anyone who wants a clone of himself is the last person you would want more of.”
― Daniel O'Malley, Stiletto