The Shadow Master Quotes

“Well done, Lorenzo,” he said, “You were as cool and brave as a… as a …” He looked up the ceiling and walls around him as if searching for a word that had just been there before him and was now escaping up there out of sight. Finally he said, “As cool and brave as something that was both cool and brave.” He reached out one arm and punched Lorenzo’s shoulder, and said, “God, I hate it when metaphors evade me.”
― Craig Cormick, The Shadow Master

“You can call me Virgil,” he said. “Is that your real name?” “No. But I think you’d prefer that to calling me Beatrice.” “I don’t understand half the things you say,” said Lorenzo. “But that means you do understand about half, which puts you up near the top of the ladder.”
― Craig Cormick, The Shadow Master

“Now come, and steel yourself, for to do this we must descend into the very underworld itself, like… well, like, like two men going into the underworld.”
― Craig Cormick, The Shadow Master

“And the few who survived would be just like him. He would no longer be alone.”
― Craig Cormick, The Shadow Master