House Immortal Quotes

“Your friend split you open and nearly bled you out."
"True. But he didn't behead me, which I appreciate."
"That is the lowest bar for friendship I've ever heard of.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“You prefer the bed on the opposite wall?"
"I prefer the bookshelf in the lower left corner of the room, and the ceiling fan not to be hanging over my head while I sleep."
"OCD?"
"Feng shui."
"Is it contagious?"
"Hardly anyone gets it.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“Are you carrying gold?" I asked sweetly.
He frowned.
"No? Silver? Lead? Copper?" I made big, innocent eyes at him. "A girl out in the brush doesn't need credit chits, Mr. House Gray. What do you have in your pockets that's worth my hospitality?"

One of the Neds coughed, and I realised that could have been taken in a very different manner.

Abraham flashed me a wicked smile.

"Don't flatter yourself," I said before he opened his mouth.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“You know what you are, Mr. Vail?"
"In a hurry?" he answered.
"A coward.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“Matilda?" he said softly as he lowered his head to mine, his eyes shifting to gaze at my lips, then back to my eyes.

He was going to kiss me.

(...) "Y-yes?" I breathed.

His lips were almost on mine. His body bent over me, closer, closer. I thought I'd burst for want.
I held my breath and closed my eyes.
His fingers squeezed the back of my neck, gentle and possessive.

"If you make me late," he murmured, his breath warm across my mouth, "I will throttle you."

Wait. What?

My eyes snapped open.

(...) By the time I pulled my thoughts together, he was already out the door. His voice floated back to me. "Move, Matilda. We're late."

That was it? No kiss? What was wrong with that man? He was sending off more mixed signals than a three-armed traffic cop.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“Slowly, we drew away from the kiss. His hands remained on my back and at my hip. I wasn't ready to let go of him either.

"Are we going to talk about that?" I asked.
"Do we need to?"
"Most people would."
"What would most people say?”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“Abraham had almost kissed me.
And I'd kicked him in the crotch.

That was a promising beginning to a ten-year work relationship.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“Then you showed up on my doorstep, all good-looking and bleeding and..."

We were in front of my door now. He stepped up and draped his hand on the door above me. Leaned in just a fraction shy of intimate distance. Close enough I could feel the heat of him, smell the warm notes of the cologne he wore.

"Good-looking and what?" he asked with a burr in his voice that gave me shivers.
"And I couldn't leave you bleeding."
"For that, I should thank you." He moved just a half inch closer, his mouth opening slightly on a smile. "Thoroughly," he added. Then, "Unfortunately, I have other pressing matters to attend."

He reached behind me and was skillful enough that we didn't even touch as he opened the door. He leaned back so I wouldn't fall through it by accident and pointed at the room. "I do hope you will refrain from running out for another cup of coffee or starting an in-House war for the next few hours."

(...)"Sure," I said, trying not to sound hot or bothered. "For the next few hours anyway." I smiled innocently.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“It's a strange world you live in, Abraham Seventh."
"You have a dragon in your backyard."
"It's a lizard."
"A lizard with wings."
"Okay, so that's a little odd.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“When the whole world went through the Restoration back in the early-2100s, everything changed. Corporations, countries, powers, joined together to grapple with overpopulation, dwindling resources, and the crippling worldwide war.
Well, that's the way the historians wrote it. What most folks whispered was that a few rich families and a few powerful corporations got together and made some deals, drew lines in the monetary sand, erased a few political borders, and staked their claim in wide-reaching resource management worldwide.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“Foolish heart, I thought. I don't have time for you.

But my heart, being foolish, did not listen.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“You owe me money."
"No, I'm pretty sure I won that square."
"You stole it."
"You were drinking maybe a little," Robert suggested.
"You were stealing maybe a little," Abraham said.
"Wasn't I just?" Robert grinned.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“I came here on a matter of some urgency," the man said. "To take your father to safety."
"I'm pretty sure the grave is as safe as man can get.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“Please. Forgive my manners. Your hospitality has been...has been more than kind..."

"You got that right," Left Ned said. "Now we've run all out of hospitable.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“We're gold."
"You know no one says that anymore," Left Ned said. "Gold isn't what it used to be."

"Gold is just the same as ever," I said. "People aren't what they used to be.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“Just like any other great beast, the city rumbled and roared and moaned in a language of wants and needs and pain, built out of a million voices, machines, and minds.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“There isn't any problem we can't solve as long as we don't stop trying to solve it.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“Being stitched was evidence of a mending, an overcoming of pain. Our scars were proof that we were strong enough to keep living.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“Are we gold?'
'You know no one says that anymore,' Left Ned said. 'Gold isn't what it used to be.'
'Gold is just the same as ever,' I said. 'People aren't what they used to be.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“Trust the word of a man who thinks beheading is a flesh wound?"
"I didn't say it wouldn't have been inconvenient."
"Death is inconvenient?"
"Being dismembered is inconvenient. I don't know about death.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“It's not illegal to own a revolver."
"Neither is it illegal to own a canon. Not a lot of people lug them into a crowded metropolis.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“You've never met a man like me."

Yeah, well, he hadn't ever met a woman like me either.

I pushed by him and stepped on his foot hard enough, he winced and sucked in a surprised breath.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“I'd never seen a place so well appointed.

"This is too much," I said. "Much too much. I'd be more comfortable with something less fussy. Like a broom closet."

"All the broom closets are full," he said. "Of brooms.”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal

“I get prickly when people are bleeding on my furniture. We tend you, and then we tend the mess that's following you. In that order. Understand?”
― Devon Monk, House Immortal