C.S. Quinn > Quotes

“Best to take one day at a time in this uncertain life and be grateful for those days that treat you well.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“plucked out a slim document. It was latticed with”
― C.S. Quinn, Dark Stars

“It was typical, he thought, that it had come to this. One minute he was happily selling forged certificates and making good money and the next he was forced to choose between torture, amputation or leaping into a pile of corpses. It was the kind of thing which always seemed to be happening to him.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“Kaballah. The soul’s path. It’s an ancient way of understanding God.”
― C.S. Quinn, Fire Catcher

“When the noise finally”
― C.S. Quinn, Archipelago

“Then better you stay silent as we walk there,’ she said, ‘in case some person I know hears your gutter accent and thinks you my husband.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“London is not known for religious tolerance.”
― C.S. Quinn, Fire Catcher

“REPENT,’ read the letters. ‘THE END IS NIGH.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“It’s the great advantage of being a woman: to be always underestimated.”
― C.S. Quinn

“London is an ancient city,’ he added. ‘She holds bound in her belly the bones of giants and her soul is of old magic.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“True alchemists are obsessed with rare ingredients. They believe only the purest will reveal the universal marriage.”
― C.S. Quinn, Fire Catcher

“Even a familiar place can feel strange when people you love are gone from it.”
― C.S. Quinn, Fire Catcher

“You cut off all its roots and still it will find a way to grow.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“London is an ancient city,' he added. 'She holds bound in her belly the bones of giants and her soul is of old magic. Some wicked thing is abroad with this plague Charlie, all of us feel it. Perhaps something terrible has arisen with the King's return. A long-sleeping demon awoken and now stalking among us.”
― C.S. Quinn, The Thief Taker

“Charlie looked at the great library of scrolls. It would take a lifetime to read them all, even for a genius. So this was how they’d trapped the great Cipher, thought Charlie. She was clever enough to escape any prison. But something in her nature couldn’t let the scrolls go unread. Lily’s”
― C.S. Quinn, Dark Stars

“England has traded her Republic for a monarch of the blood. But London’s wealth lies in the guilds, which regulate trade and set prices. And already, there is talk among Londoners that blood is a dangerous currency.”
― C.S. Quinn, Fire Catcher