Slaves of Socorro Quotes

“Mind yourself in that guardroom," Gilan told him. Thorn grinned cheerfully. He never had any stomach butterflies before a fight. "I plan to be subtle," he said.
Gilan looked at him, his head tilted curiously. "How's that?"
"Once we go through that door, I'll bash anything that moves. And if they don't move, Stig will bash them."
"You have a strange concept of subtle," Gilan said.
Thorn's grin grew wider, "So I've been told.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“What now?" Lydia asked. "I assume we have a plan B?"
He shook his head. "We're way past plan B," he told her. "And we've gone past plan C as well. We're up to plan D now."
"And what's plan D?"
He jerked his head down the alley to the corner. "Anyone comes round that corner, we shoot them."
She pursed her lips critically. "Doesn't sound too ingenious," she said.
He shrugged. "I'm not good at ingenious. I'm good at dangerous.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Hal: "...Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us."
"I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It sounds very comfortable. I imagine they're well padded."
"Lined with feathers, in fact," Gilan put in.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Who’s Ikbar?” Ulf said. His brother turned away to hide a smirk. Gilan glanced at Hal curiously, saw he wasn’t planning to answer, so spoke in his place. “He was an Arridan demigod, I believe.” “Oh, don’t,” Hal said quietly. But it was too late. “And what did he do?” “Well, Ulf, I’m not sure that he did too much of anything,” Gilan said. “Just paraded round being a demigod.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“I think you're wonderful too, Hal!" Stephan said, in a workmanlike approximation of Ophelia's breathless, admiring tones. The crew laughed even harder.
Lydia snorted through her nose.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“You think our mam likes you better than me?” challenged whichever one was the other. (Don’t blame me. I’ve lost track too.)”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Karina and Tho-orn, sitting in a tree-ee. Kay-eye-ess-ess-eye-en-gee.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“My father replaced the handle and I replaced the head,’ he said. ‘But otherwise, it’s completely original.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Oh dear, oh deary me!" Thorn said in a ridiculous falsetto voice. "What are we going to do? It's twelve big hairy guardsmen and Mahmel in a natty green hat."
It was all very well to joke about it, Hal thought, but the situation was serious.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“But Thorn shook his head ponderously. “It’s a good chance. Look at it this way.” He held out his left hand. “On the one hand, he wants to knight me. On the other hand . . .” He held out the polished wood hook that had taken the place of his right hand and looked at it, feigning surprise. “Well, what do you know? There is no other hand. So I guess it’s a knighting for me.” He smiled at them, pleased with his little performance. They all ignored him. Such a dreadful joke deserved to be ignored.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“My name is Gilan. The King wants to see you.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Good evening,” he said. “My name is Gilan. The King wants to see you.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Kloof barked excitedly and Stig hurried to grab her collar before she could go after Wulf and fetch him.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Just wanted you to know, there’s been no . . . funny business between me and your mam. No . . . hanky-panky, if you know what I mean?” For”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“He showered those close to him with bread crumbs and fragments as he spoke. Thorn had never learned the finer points of eating politely—such as keeping one’s mouth shut while doing so.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Thorn en Karina, aan de waterkant, kijk ze samen lopen, hand in hand.'
'Dit is een heel scherp mes, hoor,' waarschuwde Karina.
'Ja, ja, ik ga al.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Dat was een van de eigenschappen die Karina zo in het meisje waardeerde: ze was tegendraads, en Karina hield van tegendraads.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“In de naam van Boh-Raka, waar heb je dat gevonden? En wat is het? - Karina”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“In de muur tegenover die waar alle andere namen gegraveerd stonden, zag ze één enkele naam, en die was duidelijk niet Skandisch. Het was ook geen mannennaam. Lydia keek er uitgebreid naar.
'Evanlyn.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Then he looked around, missing something. “Where’s my staff? It was right here.” Svengal shrugged, stopping to look under the table and benches. There was no sign of the staff. “Beats me,” he said. “I’m sure it’ll turn up. I’ll get some of the boys to look for it.” Reluctantly, looking around him as he went, as if the staff might magically reappear, Erak allowed his friend to lead him back to his chair. “I just put it down for a minute,” he said ruefully. “Where could it have gone?”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro