The Fall of the House of Cabal Quotes

“So, onwards! To adventure, excitement, and oodles of delicious murder.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“Horst was suddenly filled with great admiration for Miss Barrow, and a desire for popcorn.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“All science is based on the precept that we know too little. Ignorance is not bliss. It is only ignorance. Its bed partner may be the inertia of the conservative. Often it is only fear.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“We’re having fun, and I’ve met some of your friends and your brother, all of whom seem absolutely delicious.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“Oh, wait. You’re threatening us?’ Her smile returned, a delightful expression filled with spring sunshine, heartfelt joy, and the imminence of wholesale slaughter.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“If I’m right…’ She was already walking quickly back towards the theatre. ‘If I’m right, science killed the magician.’ *”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“The truth of it was that an eternity of very much anything becomes torture after a while.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“I thought you were talking figuratively! I kept asking and you kept saying, "An entrance to Hell," so I thought, Very well, Cabal, have your moment of melodrama now and bathos later when it turns out your talking about Ipswitch or somewhere, but you meant it. You actually meant it literally.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“The spider-woman is purring.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“he seemed to recall that both Ulysses and Jason of ancient legend could be utter arses when the mood took them;”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“If my dad could only see me now,’ she said in an undertone. She settled the shotgun across her lap. ‘He’d be bloody furious.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“A summoning? I’ve read about those. Don’t they take ages and you need goats and a knife with a wavy blade and a virgin…’ Here, he unwisely glanced at Leonie and discovered that it was not only the gaze of the sun that could wither him where he stood.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“I acknowledge nothing but the burnished shine of my own golden genius.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“There were rules, laws, principles that governed everything, rules, laws, and principles that controlled every falling raindrop, every whirl of an electron, every frolicking ghost. These laws he understood better than most, and those laws said this place could not be. A pocket universe containing material aspects of the mundane, mortal world was one thing, but it was the presence of an artefact of the Dreamlands in the same place that put it all awry. It was tantamount to an electrical cell having two positives, or a planet failing to generate any gravitational pull; it simply could not happen.
There were, then, principles to which he was not privy, and to which he had never guessed at, and which he did not begin even to understand how he might understand. Not only had he built his house of science upon shifting sands, so had everybody else.
Yes, he was frightened.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“haruspicy,”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“Now hush. Necromancer at work.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“Berenice will be safe.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“How about him, then?" She nodded at Horst. "Are you and he lovers?"

Even Cabal was taken aback by this. "Hardly, madam. That's my brother."

The creature looked at Cabal for some seconds as if expecting further clarification. "And?" she said when it was not forthcoming.

"I draw the line at incest, quite putting the vexed subject of homosexuality to the side.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“I confess I am having trouble imagining an asinine orgy.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“You're not a fish, so it isn't the Abyss.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal

“If you should be walking and, suddenly and unaccountably, smell lavender and mothballs, you may have just passed a corner of Zarenyia's intra-dimensional closet.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fall of the House of Cabal