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Quotes from Simon R. Green

No more shooting from anyone. Or I am going to get seriously cranky with everyone. Suddenly, and violently and all over the place.
~ Simon R. Green
When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.
~ Simon R. Green
Oh God, it's her, run!
~ Simon R. Green
The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.
~ Simon R. Green
When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.
~ Simon R. Green
If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down.
~ Simon R. Green
What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?
~ Simon R. Green
When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.
~ Simon R. Green
What the hell are you doing here? You weren't on the guest list. Hell, you people aren't on anybody's guest list. If you turned up at a funeral, the corpse would walk out on you.
~ Simon R. Green
I take it you know my companion?" Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything." Your reputation precedes you," Random said dryly to Ruby.
~ Simon R. Green
Rupert: "... At this rate, somebody is bound to upset the Warlock once too often, and we'll end up with a Court full of bemused looking toads." "He wouldn't dare use his magic here," said the Champion. "Don't bet on it," said Rupert. "The High Warlock has all the practicality and self-preservation instincts of a depressed lemming.
~ Simon R. Green
Big corporations aren't always the bad guys; but it's the sensible way to bet.
~ Simon R. Green
Angel: And what will you do with the world, once it is yours?' N. Hob: 'Punish it, for not loving me.
~ Simon R. Green
You're the only man I know who makes the sign of the cross when confronted with broccoli.
~ Simon R. Green
My name is John Taylor. I'm a private eye, specialising in cases of the weird and uncanny. I don't solve murders, I don't do divorce work, and I wouldn't recognise a clue if you held it up before my face and said Look, this is a clue.
~ Simon R. Green
Never go anywhere without condiments. Condiments are our friends.
~ Simon R. Green
Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.
~ Simon R. Green
I saw myself as a knight-errant...but the damsel in distress stabbed me in the back, my sword shattered on the dragon's hide, and my grail turned out to be the bottom of a whiskey bottle.
~ Simon R. Green
I am the scalpel that cuts out infection, and the heartbreak that makes men wiser.
~ Simon R. Green
sometimes dreams are all that can keep you going. Give them up, and you're dead.
~ Simon R. Green
While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.
~ Simon R. Green
Just because we protect the world, it doesn't mean the world is always grateful.
~ Simon R. Green
Future is like an asshole. Everybody has one.---John Taylor (Nightside Series)
~ Simon R. Green
You know how it is, boss; you're out on the town with a few friends, drinking it up; you're young, you've got incendiaries... shit happens.
~ Simon R. Green