Pip Ballantine > Quotes

“The mention of money did intrigue him, since he did prefer wine, women, and song to beer, whores, and accordion music.”
― Pip Ballantine, The Diamond Conspiracy

“Fortune favours the bold,”
― Pip Ballantine, Dawn's Early Light

“the shlockworks in R&D straddled that razor’s edge between genius and utter crackpot,”
― Pip Ballantine, The Diamond Conspiracy

“The better a relationship you have with your sidearms and weapon of choice, the more efficient and proficient you will become with them.”
― Pip Ballantine, The Diamond Conspiracy

“When a man loses all that he has known and all that he has come to believe in, what better to do than go back to the beginning, wonder what you hath wrought, and find out if you can make it right?”
― Pip Ballantine, The Diamond Conspiracy

“Wellington cleared his throat. "Why Miss Braun, I would never have taken you for a bigot." Her mouth dropped open. "Welly, what do you..." She stopped and considered her words, her recent thoughts. Wellington was completely misconstruing this. "I just..." He raised one eyebrow. "Yes, yes, you are, I am afraid, my love. Just because Bettina here is a person of a somewhat deceased nature..." "You do hear yourself, don't you?" "... is a person of a somewhat deceased nature," he repeated, "you are making snap judgements about her. Mrs Marsh has spoken quite highly of Miss Spinnett, and she has performed admirably according to all accounts. In fact, her unique condition has proved remarkably useful at times.”
― Pip Ballantine, Operation: Endgame

“Wellington looked around for another cushion; and on relieving one from a nearby chez lounge,”
― Pip Ballantine, Dawn's Early Light

“Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.”
― Pip Ballantine, Dawn's Early Light

“Time waits upon no man.”
― Pip Ballantine, The Diamond Conspiracy

“Oh dear Lord,” he said, flustered. “Right then, I know some sign language. Basic, mind you, but I can do this.” He cleared his throat and began signing. We are full of cat, Brandon signed awkwardly. I am a delightful pillow of bananas from a kangaroo. She signed and mouthed simultaneously, What? Bruce”
― Pip Ballantine, The Ghost Rebellion

“If a man can master the kitchen, he will never go hungry.”
― Pip Ballantine, The Diamond Conspiracy

“I am horrible at this because the one person in my family that I loved unconditionally, the people I have trusted in my military days, everyone I held dear has been taken from me,”
― Pip Ballantine, Dawn's Early Light

“Robin Hood. Robbing from the rich and giving to the poor.”
― Pip Ballantine, The Diamond Conspiracy

“We only have two seasons down here: bloody hot, and bloody hot and wet.”
― Pip Ballantine, The Diamond Conspiracy

“Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.”
― Pip Ballantine, Dawn's Early Light

“They had to pass the eel-jelly stand to get there—but that still did not put the women off. Watching Londoners slurp down with real relish something that looked like it had been sneezed out of their noses was another oddness that Eliza had not quite gotten used to. The smell alone convinced her that everyone in line was completely mad. “And”
― Pip Ballantine, The Janus Affair

“Shakespeare was right. There are, indeed, more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in philosophy. One of those philosophies includes the sciences. No matter what we learn, no matter what we prove and reaffirm, there is that which cannot be explained. Those people, places, and objects that challenge the sciences,”
― Pip Ballantine, The Diamond Conspiracy

“Do you think death rays, evil henchmen, and raw materials come free? Man’s got to earn a bob or two to pay for all these marvels of technology.”
― Pip Ballantine, Dawn's Early Light

“Has Agent Braun received formal training in the Enforcer’s schematics?” “No,” Wellington said, pulling himself back to his feet, “she just has quite the innate talent for mayhem and destruction.”
― Pip Ballantine, The Ghost Rebellion

“Dear Lord, when it came to women, sometimes he felt all at sea.”
― Pip Ballantine, Dawn's Early Light

“You’ve got to decide what you’re going to do and then commit to it. That word suggests hesitation.”
― Pip Ballantine, Dawn's Early Light

“Gods, her own loud voice was making her head ring. She placed both hands up to hold it together, just on the off chance it flew apart and made a mess in the Archives. Wellington”
― Pip Ballantine, Phoenix Rising

“Sunlight and hangovers never made good companions, not even civil acquaintances.”
― Pip Ballantine, Phoenix Rising

“Fortune favours the brave,”
― Pip Ballantine, The Diamond Conspiracy

“This world devoured people, good and bad but usually it was the good ones first, leaving nothing except memories to remember them by.”
― Pip Ballantine, The Diamond Conspiracy

“in our profession, there’s no such thing as happenstance. ’Bout as possible as an honest politician on Capitol Hill.”
― Pip Ballantine, Dawn's Early Light