Simon R. Green > Quotes

“There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...”
― Simon R. Green, Nightingale's Lament

“Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.”
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“Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.”
― Simon R. Green, The Bride Wore Black Leather

“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.”
― Simon R. Green, The Unnatural Inquirer

“I ignored him, concentrating on Lilith. "According to the stories, after you were expelled from Eden you went down into Hell, where you coupled with demons and gave birth to all the monsters that have plagued the world."

"I was young," said Lilith. "You know how it is. We all do things we later regret, when we're being rebellious teenagers.”
― Simon R. Green, Hex and the City

“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.”
― Simon R. Green, Something from the Nightside

“If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down.”
― Simon R. Green, Ghostworld

“Too many people live the lives other people think they ought to, following orders they don't agree with, for causes they don't believe in. They live lives that don't matter, that touch no one and change nothing. For better or worse, you and I stared evil in the eye and didn't flinch. We raised our swords and went to war, and even if we didn't win we kicked some ass along the way. We made a difference, and that's all any man can ask.”
― Simon R. Green, Deathstalker

“ 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.”
― Simon R. Green, Something from the Nightside

“Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.”
― Simon R. Green, A Hard Day's Knight

“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.”
― Simon R. Green, Hex and the City

“Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“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.”
― Simon R. Green, Blue Moon Rising

“Revenge is simply justice with teeth.”
― Simon R. Green, The Bride Wore Black Leather

“What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?”
― Simon R Green, Just Another Judgement Day

“Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.”
― Simon R. Green

“I always feel most alive when everything else is dying all around me”
― Simon R. Green , Drinking Midnight Wine

“Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.”
― Simon R. Green, The Man with the Golden Torc

“This isn't Hell, it's the Nightside. Thought sometime you can see Hell from here.”
― Simon R. Green, Paths Not Taken

“Oh God, it's her, run!”
― Simon R. Green, Something from the Nightside

“My Suzie, also known as Shotgun Suzie, also known as Oh Christ It's Her, Run.”
― Simon R. Green, The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny

“There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.”
― Simon R. Green, Deathstalker Destiny

“You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.”
― Simon R. Green, The Man with the Golden Torc

“I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.”
― Simon R. Green, Something from the Nightside

“The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.”
― Simon R. Green, Ghostworld

“Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.”
― Simon R. Green, Daemons Are Forever

“Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end. ”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“Books can be terrible snobs.”
― Simon R. Green, The Bride Wore Black Leather