Marina Finlayson > Quotes

“Throw the word “bargain” around a few times, and people will swarm the tiredest old dreck like bees in search of a new hive. Or maybe locusts, ready to strip the place bare. They even buzzed like swarming insects. Voices raised in conversation and laughter, plus the occasional shrieks of a tired child, formed a background roar that still failed to drown out the tired tinkle of Christmas music piped over the top. I’d only been here ten minutes and already I’d heard White Christmas twice. Two times too many in my book.”
― Marina Finlayson, Twiceborn

“Funny how bonding it can be to dig up a grave together. They should include it in team-building management courses.”
― Marina Finlayson, The Twiceborn Queen

“but it was a good sign that her body had eased out of trueshape. The stewardess had covered her with a blanket and slipped a pillow under her dark head. I watched her for a while until sleep overtook me again. I was too tired to plan what came”
― Marina Finlayson, Twiceborn Endgame

“Right.” Everyone was equal, but some were more equal than others. When had humans ever been any different? They bitched and moaned about the shapers, and how unfair it was that they could use their powers to lord it over the powerless, but the minute they got their hands on any kind of advantage, they began building their own hierarchies of haves and have-nots.”
― Marina Finlayson, Murdered Gods

“Hate was easy. Acceptance was the real challenge.”
― Marina Finlayson, Murdered Gods

“I’m not asking riddles any more,” said the sphinx. “Really?” The merchant raised his face from the dirt hopefully. “Really.”
― Marina Finlayson, The Family Business

“Bet Boss wouldn’t be pleased about the sunnies thing. Making yourself look like a tosser was a personal choice, of course, but it meant Sunnies Dude stood out from the crowd. Despite the heat and glare outside, no one else in here wore sunglasses. What did they teach these guys in spy school? Didn’t he know he should be trying to blend in?”
― Marina Finlayson, Twiceborn

“I wasn’t feeling so cocky now but it was too late for second-guessing. The black flats I’d worn as the pregnant woman would spoil the whole effect. I shrugged. What did it matter anyway? When the worst thing you could ever imagine has already happened to you, it puts everything else in perspective.”
― Marina Finlayson, Twiceborn

“So I had a look, in case it was full of white powder, or hundred dollar bills, or something equally dodgy. I may not care about much any more but no money on earth would get me to deliver drugs. But I couldn’t even tell what it was—a roughly disk-shaped piece of shiny hard something. It didn’t look like any plastic I’d ever seen, and there was nothing written on it, nothing to explain why anyone would give a toss who received such a thing. But clearly someone did.”
― Marina Finlayson, Twiceborn

“There are basically three kinds of people in the world: shapers, shifters, and sheep. You’re not a shifter, and you’re certainly not a shaper, but you don’t feel like a sheep either. So what are you?»
*He forgot Number 4: shitheads,*”
― Marina Finlayson, Stolen Magic

“Of course it also meant our lone white car, cruising down a dead-end street at nine o’clock at night, stood out like dogs’ balls.”
― Marina Finlayson, Twiceborn

“Bloody hell. Had I finally lost it? Was I having visions now? My sight blurred and prickled with darkness, the bathroom disappearing around me. No, not visions. Visions didn’t come with bonus traces of blood under your fingernails.”
― Marina Finlayson, Twiceborn