Catherine Jinks > Quotes

“What ever you do-Don't get caught.”
― Catherine Jinks , Evil Genius

“Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.”
― Catherine Jinks, Evil Genius

“I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!”
― Catherine Jinks, Evil Genius

“When someone's rattling on about blocked toilets, collapsing marquees, and penis-shaped birthday cakes, it's hard to convince yourself that you're in a life-or-death situation.”
― Catherine Jinks, The Reformed Vampire Support Group

“You don't believe it because you don't understand," he said hoarsely. "Prosper was different. He wasn't like other
people. He might have hated me, but he loved me too. In his own way. He couldn't help it; not after raising me for all those years." When no one responded – when he saw nothing but expressions of disbelief on the faces around him – Cadel wailed, "He did! He did! I know he did! He only wanted to wreck my life because he wasn't a part of it!"
And as sympathetic hands reached out towards him from every corner of the car, Cadel began to cry like someone whose heart was breaking.”
― Catherine Jinks, The Genius Wars

“Only because books are better than people, Father. ... Because they are masters who instruct without a rod. If you approach them, they are never asleep; if you are ignorant, they never laugh; if you make mistakes, they never chide. They give to all who ask of them, and never demand payment. ... All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, if God hadn't provided us with the remedy of books.”
― Catherine Jinks, Pagan's Scribe

“I mean who the hell do you think you are, exactly? Saint Roland of the Perpetual Martyrdom?”
― Catherine Jinks, Pagan's Crusade

“Horace, however, had arrayed himself in a Gothic assortment of crushed velvet, black satin, and patent leather that shouldn't have been allowed in my view. He might as well have I AM A VAMPIRE embroidered across the front of his watered-silk waistcoat. An outfit like that is going to get him staked one of these days; it's exactly what Boris Karloff would have worn, if he had joined the cast of Rocky Horror Motion Picture Show.”
― Catherine Jinks, The Reformed Vampire Support Group

“Why look to far ahead, when there was nothing to see but dark clouds?”
― Catherine Jinks, Genius Squad

“If it hadn't been for Prosper, he might never have learned how to love at all. Because the ability to become attached to people was something that you had to exercise at an early age, if you didn't want to lose it altogether.”
― Catherine Jinks, Genius Squad

“How I long to feel the weight of a book in my hand. How I long to turn a page, and pass through the print as you'd pass through a door, into that world of wise and lofty spirits, of strange animals, of noble deeds and faraway cities. If only I could crawl into a book and stay there for the rest of my life.”
― Catherine Jinks, Pagan's Scribe

“My lord-' (Pagan)
'I just want you to be happy. Safe and happy' (Roland)
'My lord, I'm safe and happy with you.' In God's name, Roland, why do you even ask? 'Where you go, I will go.”
― Catherine Jinks, Pagan in Exile

“Three months before Cadel’s eleventh birthday, his French teacher left the classroom, briefly, to answer an urgent phone call. When she returned, she found the entire class in an uproar with everyone fighting and shouting - except Cadel. He satin the midst of this chaos, quietly finishing the exercise she had set for all of them.”
― Catherine Jinks, Evil Genius