Quotes from Simon R. Green

Nothing is ever really lost. The memories of good friends and good times are always there, never more than a thought away. In a sense, they never really stopped happening. Every moment you ever treasured, every friend you ever valued is still there, separated from us only by time; the past is still happening and always will be. It's only we who have moved on.

God does so love to make a man break a promise.

I chose to help people, because there'd been no-one there to help me when I needed it.

I am not weird!" I said. "I'm just differently normal.

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

Because when you wear a mask long enough, it gets really hard to take it off. The mask becomes your face.

It's always thoughts of family that drive me crazy, and it's always my friends who bring me back. Agents of Light and Darkness p.218

I love to dance!" she said cheerfully. "Sometimes I think the whole world should be put to music and choreographed!" "This being the Nightside, someone somewhere is undoubtedly working on that very thing, right now.

They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.

Families – can't live with them – can't take them down to the river and drown them all in sacks.

Worship Me Like the Goddess I Am or There Will Be Some Serious Smiting." Jubilee

Who ... what are they?" "My pride and glory," Alex said fondly. "Betty and Lucy Coltrane. Best damned bouncers in the business. Though of course I'd never tell them that. Fiercer than pit bulls and cheaper to run. Married to each other. They had a dog once, but they ate it.

Eddie Drood: Is this why we become agents? To play games, to chase after secrets that are rarely worth all the blood spilled on their behalf...To end up stabbed in the back, just when you thought you'd won, bleeding out in some nameless backstreet...With most people never even knowing who you were, or what you did, or why it mattered?

What value can one ordinary man have in a magical world? What can a mortal bring to the affairs of immortals? Insight. Honor. Morality. Perspective. Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

I could have been a contender, if I'd cared enough.

The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the world's malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if there's nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because you've nothing better to do.

You have to believe in your dreams because sometimes they believe in you.

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers

Let us take it for granted that I am careless and ungrateful and never appreciate anything you do for me and move on, shall we.

I'm exempt from anything I damned will feel like on the grounds that I'll kick anyone's ass who says otherwise.

Never get attached to possessions…. They're just things and you can always get more things.

The truth might set you free, but there's nothing that says you have to be grateful.

Steal from the best, and call it research!

Faith should mean something. Gods . . . should stand for something, not chop and change with every breeze that blows. Gods should be worshipped for the truths they represent, not what party favours they might dispense."-Razor Eddie the Punk God of the Straight Razor