Quotes from Simon R. Green

together, almost out of their minds with excitement

Magic has a fondness for patterns and repetition.

Few and far between now, lost and forsaken; the bitter end of a once brilliant dream.

It was said in Clan Campbell that there were a dozen ways of wasting your breath, and talking to Gerald were six of them.

I kept expecting the nurses and patients to come suddenly alive, and raise the alarm, or even attack us. Instead, the nurses stood very still, and the patients lay unmoving in their beds, like toys that weren't currently being played with. A horrible suspicion came over me, that perhaps the whole world was like this, whenever I turned my back . . . By the time we got to the far doors, I was practically running.

There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.

After all, you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily along at your side, holding your hand, and smiling sweetly on one and all.

The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.

If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down.

Too many people live the lives other people think they ought to, following orders they don't agree with, for causes they don't believe in. They live lives that don't matter, that touch no one and change nothing. For better or worse, you and I stared evil in the eye and didn't flinch. We raised our swords and went to war, and even if we didn't win we kicked some ass along the way. We made a difference, and that's all any man can ask.

I ignored him, concentrating on Lilith. "According to the stories, after you were expelled from Eden you went down into Hell, where you coupled with demons and gave birth to all the monsters that have plagued the world." "I was young," said Lilith. "You know how it is. We all do things we later regret, when we're being rebellious teenagers.

Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.

Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.

I went to a house that was not a house. I opened a door that was not a door. And what I saw, I saw.

When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.

Revenge is simply justice with teeth.

Are you sure this is a good idea?' whispered the unicorn. 'No,' said Rupert. 'But it's our best chance to find a dragon.' 'Frankly, that doesn't strike me as such a hot idea either,' muttered the unicorn.

I always feel most alive when everything else is dying all around me

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

This isn't Hell, it's the Nightside. Thought sometime you can see Hell from here.

Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.

There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.