Explore Quotes by Simon R. Green

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

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

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

Angel: And what will you do with the world, once it is yours?' N. Hob: 'Punish it, for not loving me.

Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

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

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

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.

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?

We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things down here, sleeping all around us, in the earth and in the living rock, and in the spaces between spaces. Keep your voices down. Some of these old creatures sleep but lightly, and even their dreams can have force and substance in our limited world. We have come among forgotten gods and sleeping devils, from the days before the world settled down and declared itself sane.

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.

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

Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.

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.

What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?