The Devil's Detective Quotes

“Because this is Hell, Thomas—have you understood nothing? We all do what it requires of us, no matter how pointless or trivial those things appear to be. We are, all of us, at the whim of forces and desires and urgencies far greater, far wider, than we can ever hope to recognize or understand. Hell knows what you will find in there, but it will not pass on that knowledge, because you need to find it for yourselves.”
― Simon Kurt Unsworth, The Devil's Detective

“...those occasional people who seem to achieve some kind of happiness here like your two dead colleagues, these are the things that Hell allows to flourish in tiny, stunted bursts, to make it immeasurably worse for everyone else.”
― Simon Kurt Unsworth, The Devil's Detective

“The hope of Elevation has to remain something random, impossible to see properly, given not to those who earn it but to those with no discernible right to it. Resentment, fear, loathing, and a tiny, flickering light of hope always just out of reach, that is Hell, yes?”
― Simon Kurt Unsworth, The Devil's Detective

“Hell is not a place of no hope, Thomas, but a place where tiny amounts of hope are allowed to flourish.”
― Simon Kurt Unsworth, The Devil's Detective