The Thief Taker Quotes

“Best to take one day at a time in this uncertain life and be grateful for those days that treat you well.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“It was typical, he thought, that it had come to this. One minute he was happily selling forged certificates and making good money and the next he was forced to choose between torture, amputation or leaping into a pile of corpses. It was the kind of thing which always seemed to be happening to him.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“You cut off all its roots and still it will find a way to grow.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“Then better you stay silent as we walk there,’ she said, ‘in case some person I know hears your gutter accent and thinks you my husband.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“REPENT,’ read the letters. ‘THE END IS NIGH.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“London is an ancient city,’ he added. ‘She holds bound in her belly the bones of giants and her soul is of old magic.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“London is an ancient city,' he added. 'She holds bound in her belly the bones of giants and her soul is of old magic. Some wicked thing is abroad with this plague Charlie, all of us feel it. Perhaps something terrible has arisen with the King's return. A long-sleeping demon awoken and now stalking among us.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker