Alex Grecian > Quotes

“Your duty is to society, and the dead have always been a part of society. How we treat the dead says much about us.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“In another life, perhaps we will be lifted up once more, but while we are on this earth, and in this town, we fall as if into a deep, dark well, without ever touching the bottom of it.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“It is more important to use your gifts well than to settle for being content.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“I find that if you're a good student, the teacher hardly matters.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“London is locked in a sort of dance of propriety, and it seems to me that it has led to desperation among certain elements of our society.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“Kett shook his head. Murderers, thieves, whores and swindlers were all pressed together alongside the rarest of species, the honest citizen. He could spend the entire afternoon studying the crowds at Euston Square and never sort the decent from the damned.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“Exitus probatur,” he said. The end is justified. “Ergo acta probantur,” said one of the waiting men. Therefore the means are justified.”
― Alex Grecian, The Devil's Workshop

“The morale of the Metropolitan Police Force had reached its lowest point during the Ripper murders of the previous year and had not yet recovered. The files of the Whitechapel murders had not been closed as the case was still ongoing, but nobody in London trusted the police to do their job.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“Joe could not remember when he had felt more afraid, but he had been heard and touched, and he decided that ought to be enough for a dead man.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“She, more than most, knew that the world operated by an unwavering set of rules. Fairness and justice had no place in the system of cogs and levers that kept the moon in the sky and the fish in the sea.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Dr Kingsley was an exception, as he was not officially a member of the Metropolitan Police Force of Scotland Yard. He worked from a lab in the University College Hospital basement and had created his own position as forensic examiner simply because he felt it was necessary. Before he had taken over the police morgue, forensics work had been nearly nonexistent. Bodies had been shipped to poorly run storage facilities where they were lost or forgotten. He was a strange little man and the police gave him wide berth, but his help was invaluable and he was widely respected within the ranks of the detectives.”
― Alex Grecian, The Yard

“Down in the valley, the valley so low, Hang your head over, hear the wind blow. Hear the wind blow, dear, hear the wind blow, Hang your head over, hear the wind blow.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“The black toad was perched on his chin. Bill watched, wide-eyed and frozen, as the toad crawled up and into his mouth.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“I don’t know your real name,” she said to Rabbit.

“The man and his wife called me Girl. And Old Tom called me Rabbit because I was a Rabbit when he found me.”

“Those are labels, not names.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“She watched as the wet black toad hopped up the boy’s arm, over his chin, and into his mouth.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“He was part of an old story, a story that spanned many centuries and many cultures. He was Loki chained in the Netherworld, Prometheus on the rock. He was a God and these men were mortals. They could hurt him, but they had not killed him yet. Perhaps they could not kill him. He was an idea and was, therefore, immortal.”
― Alex Grecian, The Devil's Workshop

“The music was strongest in the clearing, and the Huntsman found himself thinking about the woman again: her scent, ripe and earthy, and the fine downy hair on her arms and legs. He growled at the trees, but the music continued.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Rumors about how Olivia’s bones had broken and reknit themselves in bizarre configurations, how her flesh had run in rivulets across her wasted muscles, then solidified again in peaks and troughs, scales and horns.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Joe and Isaiah sat for a while, sharing the pipe and watching the men quarrel. The men did not seem to notice anybody else, and their disagreement never ended. Joe wondered about the passage of time, and how ever since he died it had felt like a river that ran every which way.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“He was part of an old story, a story that spanned many centuries and many cultures. He was Loki chained in the Netherworld, Prometheus on the rock. He was a god and these men were mortals. They could hurt him, but they had not killed him yet. Perhaps they could not kill him. He was more than a man. He was an idea and was, therefore, immortal.”
― Alex Grecian, The Devil's Workshop

“Few of us are good at being fathers. But we try. And eventually our children grow into men and women who make their own mistakes and blame us for them. It’s the way of the world.”
― Alex Grecian, The Devil's Workshop

“Mi malsukcesis.”
― Alex Grecian, The Saint of Wolves and Butchers

“But the hanging bodies puzzled the Huntsman. Curious, he left the shed and circled the rooming house. The front door was open, so he stood and entered as a man would. He heard voices at the back of the house, and he sniffed the air, then drew his bow and nocked an arrow.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Why don’t you go on home and stay there for the rest of your life?”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Well, heck, anything’s a coincidence if you look at it right.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“But there were some things he didn’t like as much. He could see the grass blowing in a gentle breeze, but he couldn’t feel it. He stopped and watched a boy eat an apple beside a brook, and he tried to remember what apples tasted like. He didn’t think he would probably ever eat an apple again.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Witches have potions,” Ubel said, “and powders, and candles with aromas that can cloud a man’s mind.” “I never smelled a candle that could make me forget I smelled it.” “Well, you wouldn’t know, would you?” Duff nodded and pulled his chair closer. It was a good point. “We men aren’t devious like those wicked women. They like to take advantage of our inherent nobility.” “With candles?”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Fairness and justice had no place in the system of cogs and levers that kept the moon in the sky and the fish in the sea.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit