Simon R. Green Quotes - Page 2

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• The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the world’s malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if there’s nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because you’ve nothing better to do.

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  Reality, Men, Victory

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.124, Penguin

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• When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.

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  Angel, Night, Cities

  Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.25, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• I went to a house that was not a house. I opened a door that was not a door. And what I saw, I saw.

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  Doors, House, Saws

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.3, Penguin

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• While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.

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  Cat, May, Rats

  Simon R. Green (2008). “Daemons Are Forever”, p.83, Penguin

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• We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things down here, sleeping all around us, in the earth and in the living rock, and in the spaces between spaces. Keep your voices down. Some of these old creatures sleep but lightly, and even their dreams can have force and substance in our limited world. We have come among forgotten gods and sleeping devils, from the days before the world settled down and declared itself sane.

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  Dream, Sleep, Dark

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• Are you sure this is a good idea?' whispered the unicorn. 'No,' said Rupert. 'But it's our best chance to find a dragon.' 'Frankly, that doesn't strike me as such a hot idea either,' muttered the unicorn.

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  Dragons, Ideas, Hot

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• No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

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  Likes, Defining, Losing

  Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.93, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily along at your side, holding your hand, and smiling sweetly on one and all.

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  Hands, Your Side, Sides

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• You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement?

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  Fashion, Rip, Angel

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Agents Of Light And Darkness”, p.90, Penguin

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• Never go anywhere without condiments. Condiments are our friends.

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  Condiments

  Simon R. Green (2011). “A Hard Day's Knight”, p.58, Penguin

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• First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.

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  Engineering, Firsts, Made

  Simon R. Green (2013). “Spirits From Beyond”, p.111, Penguin

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• Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.

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  Cake, Function, Knows

  Simon R. Green (2008). “Daemons Are Forever”, p.59, Penguin

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• Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.

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  Balconies, Tall

  Simon R. Green (2007). “The Man With the Golden Torc”, p.107, Penguin

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• I take it you know my companion?" Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything." Your reputation precedes you," Random said dryly to Ruby.

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  Journey, Fire, Important

  Simon R. Green (2016). “Deathstalker Honor”, p.317, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.

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  Wall, Graffiti, Usual

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.17, Penguin

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• I always feel most alive when everything else is dying all around me

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  Dying, Alive, Feels

  Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.41, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• Angel: And what will you do with the world, once it is yours?' N. Hob: 'Punish it, for not loving me.

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  Angel, World, Loving Me

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