A Night in the Lonesome October Quotes

“Such
times are rare, such times are fleeting, but always bright when caught, measured, hung, and later regarded
in times of adversity, there in the kinder halls of memory, against the flapping of the flames.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“I took Jack his slippers this evening and lay at his feet before a roaring fire while he smoked his pipe, sipped sherry, and read the newspaper. He read aloud everything involving killings, arsons, mutilations, grave robberies, church desecrations, and unusual thefts. It is very pleasant just being domestic sometimes.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“I felt a strong desire to howl at the moon. It was such a howlable moon. But I restrained myself.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Does anybody really care about a hungry cat, except for a few friends?”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Cats are never around when you really need one.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Growing moon. Angry cat. Feather on the wind. Autumn comes. The grass dies.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Never trust a cat, anyway. All they’re good for is stringing tennis racquets.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“It's mainly the little things- all added up- that give us the final picture, that make the difference.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“I hunted rats and ate out of dustbins and saw my kittens killed and was hung by my tail and abused by wicked urchins,” Graymalk said suddenly, “before the mistress found me. She was an orphan who’d lived on the streets. Her life had been even worse.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“So I threw back my head and howled. He didn’t notice, and it didn’t matter that he didn’t notice. It’s a good thing to do when you’re frustrated.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“When all hell breaks loose in our vicinity, it does it with style.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“I threw back my head and howled. Sometimes it’s the best thing to do.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Hard times do really bring out the revolutionary in a person, don’t they?”
“I’ll give you that. Also, sometimes, the cynicism.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“There are certain pleasures to be had in lurking.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Hard times do really bring out the revolutionary in a person, don’t they?”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Then the moon went out. We all looked upward as a dark shape covered it, descending, rushing toward us. Morris shrieked shrilly as it fell, changing shape as if dark veils swam about it. And then the moon shone again, and the piece of midnight sky which had fallen came to earth beside Jack, and I saw that vision-twisting transformation of which Graymalk had spoken - here, there, a twist, a swirl, a dark bending - and the Count stood at Jack's side, smiling a totally evil smile. He laid his left hand - the dark ring visible upon it- upon Jack's right shoulder.
"I stand with him," he said, "to close you out."
Vicar Roberts stared at him and locked his lips.
"I would think one of your sort more inclined to our view in this matter," the vicar stated.
"I like the world just the way it is," said the Count.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“One night when we were in a graveyard recently an old watchdog came by... and we talked for a time.
"Hi. I'm a watchdog."
"Me, too."
"I've been watching you."
"And I've been watching you."
"Why is your person digging a hole?"
"There are some things down there that he needs."
"Oh. I don't think he's supposed to be doing that."
"May I see your teeth?"
"Yes. Here. May I see yours?"
"Of course."
"Perhaps it's all right. Do you think you might leave a large bone somewhere nearby?"
"I believe that could be arranged."
"Are you the ones that were by here last month?"
"No, that was the competition. We were shopping elsewhere."
"They didn't have a watchdog."
"Bad planning. What did you do?"
"Barked a lot. They got nervous and left."
"Good. Then we're still probably ahead.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“locale. Excitement leaped in my breast like a puppy, enthusiastic and more than a little naive.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“No. Never trust a cat, anyway. All they’re good for is stringing tennis racquets.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“And he proceeded to tell me the story of how a number of the proper people are attracted to the proper place in the proper year on a night in the lonesome October when the moon shines full on Halloween and the way may be opened for the return of the Elder Gods to Earth, and of how some of these people would assist in the opening of the way for them while others would strive to keep the way closed.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“I don’t believe in giving warnings. But I give anybody two attempts on us, to discover their folly. If they do not, and they try a third time, I kill them. That’s all.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“The vicar had delivered me into the hands of a vivisectionist.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Graymalk were dead, I was going to kill him.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Such times are rare, such times are fleeting, but always bright when caught, measured, hung, and later regarded in times of adversity, there in the kinder halls of memory, against the flapping of the flames.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Vicar Roberts has become convinced there’s something unnatural in the neighborhood,” he said. “How strange. What might have led him to that belief?” “The bodies with no blood left in them, and the people with anemia, who all seem to have had vivid dreams involving bats. Things like that.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Stars swam in the Thames, and the air was full of dirty smells.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Magical rotas sometimes strike me as instructions for lunatic scavenger hunts.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October

“Вечером принес Джеку тапочки и лежал у его ног возле жарко пылавшего камина, а он курил трубку, потягивал шерри и читал газету. Он зачитывал вслух все, что писали об убийствах, поджогах, членовредительстве, тяжких ограблениях, осквернении церквей и необычных кражах. Приятно иногда просто так посидеть и насладиться домашним уютом.”
― Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October