Declan Finn > Quotes

“Have you ever met a flaky academic?”
The Exile laughed. “I have an engineering degree. All of us are crazy. If you don't believe me, I'll introduce you to electrical engineers.”
“Shocking,” Mac muttered.”
― Declan Finn, Codename: Winterborn

“once people stop believing in God, it doesn’t mean that they have stopped believing. It’s that they’ll believe in anything, and I think San Francisco has proven that.”
― Declan Finn, Codename: Winterborn

“You're a puzzle.”
Kevin considered this, and nodded slowly. “Jigsaw or Rubik's cube?”
― Declan Finn, Codename: Winterborn

“If you're not used to carrying, prepare to be carried, by pallbearers.”
― Declan Finn, Set to Kill

“Marco always felt like he was a great argument for religion. Whenever someone tried to argue that “Oh, without religion, it’s not like anyone is going to become a mass murderer,” Marco just laughed in their faces. He didn’t know if he would be a mass murderer, a spree killer, or a serial killer, but he knew that there would be a string of bodies behind him wherever he went. But his faith didn’t like that, his God was against it, and every document of the church that Marco got his hands on didn’t approve.”
― Declan Finn, Live and Let Bite

“Then again, Marco knew her -even more than she had thought. Most men were easily intimidated -either by her looks, her fangs, her desire to have a relationship, or her ability to lift a car.”
― Declan Finn, Live and Let Bite

“you can’t spell undead without UN.”
― Declan Finn, Live and Let Bite

“neutral parties always get shot first.” “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be cannon fodder.”
― Declan Finn, It Was Only On Stun!

“I want to see how your mind works.” “Slowly, and with WD-40.”
― Declan Finn, Deus Vult

“The band playing what was charitably known as “death metal” music, but only if the qualifications for it meant that the hearers sincerely wanted to die, preferably in a quick and painless manner, rather than being blasted to death by the noise.”
― Declan Finn, Live and Let Bite

“a paranoiac might just be a realist depending on his zip code.”
― Declan Finn, It Was Only On Stun!

“Sean kicked his knee from behind, then swept in, grabbing the gun from the backpack. It was big and bulky, a forty-five with a laser under the barrel, a telescopic sight on top of it, with an extended magazine and a sound suppressor. “Wow, you are such a cliché liberal,” Sean muttered. “You don't even know how guns work, do you?” Castelo”
― Declan Finn, Set to Kill

“raised an eyebrow, glancing from one to the other. “Why did he not just say, ‘We hate the Nazis?’ I know it is not diplomatic, but—” Figlia shook his head at that one. “Is not Vatican policy — if you condemn Al-Qaeda, they could change the name. If one condemns ‘men of violence’ in Afghanistan, it is obvious, si?” Father”
― Declan Finn, A Pius Man

“God's hate' my ass. While God's somewhat cranky in the Torah, it's a matter of 'Screw With My People, I Will End You.' Hate is never stressed as a key component of any modern faith I know of; the others were wiped out centuries ago.” Edward was a military veteran of a branch that he couldn't legally discuss. He blinked at Ryan's offhand statement. “What about Islam?” “When the majority of real estate that Islam owns resembles the modern world, get back to me.”
― Declan Finn, Pius Holidays: Festive Tales of the Pius Trilogy

“But do you know what I detest more than weak goodness? It is even weaker evil.”
― Declan Finn, Wyverns Never Die

“When you’re going into the water at three hundred miles an hour,” Wayne muttered to himself, opening Dead Simple, “life preservers are only good for marking the crash sight.”
― Declan Finn, Too Secret Service: Part One

“There's a good reason why the Catholic Church has never declared that any individual person has gone to Hell—the Vatican condemns certain behaviors, not certain people.  It has never tried to take on the moral authority assumed by Dante. “Taken”
― Declan Finn, Pius Holidays: Festive Tales of the Pius Trilogy

“If I were a dumbass, I’d be a Lib-Prog. I prefer Conservative anarchist. Give me liberty, or give me death, and if you try it, you’ll also need to take my machine gun.”
― Declan Finn, Codename: Winterborn

“Sean Ryan looked at the agents from the BND, Interpol, Mossad, Vatican Intelligence, the Vatican’s Central Office of Vigilance, the Secret Service, the Egyptian police force, and quickly said, “Well, no one’s a spy working for the bad guys, anyway.”
― Declan Finn, A Pius Man

“The Pope held the smoke grenades.”
― Declan Finn, A Pius Man

“Dead men tell no tales—unless you’re in forensics.”
― Declan Finn, A Pius Man

“Why not go to Our Lady of Lourdes if it was closer? Because, as Alex once put it, “The acoustics are terrible. No matter where you stand in the church, you can hear the pastor.”
― Declan Finn, Coven

“get rid of religion, if there is nothing above yourself that is worth fighting for … then duty, honor, country mean duty to your own concern, honored by an op-ed page in the New York Times, and what country? You’re now an intellectual! An internationalist! All head, no heart, and only the groin for company.”
― Declan Finn, A Pius Man

“All in all, most of the customers, both vampire and human, had read far too many novels. They had watched the vampire media and they took their cues from there. They indulged in black leather, took to kinky sex, and did their best to imitate a Laurel K Hamilton book. Half of the audience routinely tried ceremonies, Black Masses, dark rituals, but they typically ended up as sex orgies -less Satan, more basic hedonism. Everyone else had pastimes that generally included drinking blood from drug addicts, petty theft, and generally making a nuisance of themselves.”
― Declan Finn, Live and Let Bite

“When the Moon hits your eye / Like a big pizza pie…. THAT’S NO MOON, IT’S A SPACE STATION.”
― Declan Finn, It Was Only On Stun!

“Homeschooling and guns are the enemy in New York, because if civilians can teach and protect themselves, there’s no reason for the government to do it for them.”
― Declan Finn, Coven

“He was Father Richard Freeman, Order of Preachers, a first order Dominican priest. Of course he was a Dominican, when you want a truly educated Catholic, you don’t go to the Pseudo-intellectuals in the Jesuits.”
― Declan Finn, Hell Spawn

“White cloth looks like white cloth.  They thought I was an acolyte.” Sean Ryan blinked.  “Don’t you mean a Deacon?” “Is that what they’re called?  I’ll take your word for it.” Ryan almost laughed as the procession moved into the church, down the nave, or center aisle. “You know the clothes and not the title?  Wow, you’re so ignorant, you must be Catholic.” Gresham”
― Declan Finn, It Was Only On Stun!

“Granted “ethical treatment of vampires” was different than what normal people would consider. Capital offenses were executed in a quick and final way. Cardinal rules included “Don’t get caught,” “Don’t mess with other vampires,” and “If you must kill each other, do it quietly, where no-one else will be bothered.”
― Declan Finn, Live and Let Bite

“I also believe in Murphy’s Law, so I live my life ready to combat anything short of Armageddon.”
― Declan Finn, Demons Are Forever