Stephen Gallagher > Quotes

“The man waxed his mustache. In Sebastian's book, that was never a good sign.”
― Stephen Gallagher, The Bedlam Detective

“Miss D’Alroy, you could charm a dog off of a butcher’s wagon. I can’t imagine the manager who’d turn you away.”
― Stephen Gallagher, The Kingdom of Bones

“I doubt that he even considered that,” Sebastian said. “His obsession is his entire horizon.”
― Stephen Gallagher, The Kingdom of Bones

“You should have said where fact ends and fantasy begins. If that’s what you wanted to know.” “Isn’t it the same thing?” “No, it’s not. Mother’s like a spring flower. That’s not strictly a fact. But it is true.”
― Stephen Gallagher, The Bedlam Detective

“Learn subtlety, James,” he said. “It is perfectly possible to destroy something innocent, yet leave no public mark.”
― Stephen Gallagher, The Kingdom of Bones

“Sebastian tried not to look too far ahead. Ambition was a young man's game. Theses days he was more concerned with the continuing survival and security of those he loved. It was no longer so much a matter of dreaming how high he might climb, as of always keeping in mind how far they might fall.”
― Stephen Gallagher, The Bedlam Detective

“Tell your troubles to a man, and to the best of his ability he’d advise you how to fix them. Complain at that, and you’d bewilder him. Why seek advice, only in order to reject it? What, otherwise, could have been the point of the conversation?”
― Stephen Gallagher, The Bedlam Detective

“It was here that Euday caught up with her. He said, “You notice the graves all face to the east?” She hadn’t, but they did. She said, “What’s the reason for that?” “So their spirits could fly home to Africa.”
― Stephen Gallagher, The Kingdom of Bones

“Call it a private demonstration of the fistic arts.”
― Stephen Gallagher, The Kingdom of Bones

“Faith,” Bram Stoker once said, “is to be found more often in a theater than in a church.”
― Stephen Gallagher, The Kingdom of Bones