Simon R. Green Quotes

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• Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.

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  Running, Stubbornness, Good Sense

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

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  Mind, Might, Walks

  Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.127, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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

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  Numbers, Singing, Female

  Simon R. Green (2004). “Nightingale's Lament”, p.58, Penguin

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

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  Problem, Forgotten, Lost

  Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.143, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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

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  Right Now, Has Beens

  Simon R. Green (2016). “Deathstalker Destiny”, p.288, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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

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  Sometimes, Said, Humour

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Agents Of Light And Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Memories, Good Friend, Past

  Simon R. Green (1997). “Deathstalker War”, p.231, Penguin

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• Revenge is simply justice with teeth.

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  Revenge, Justice, Teeth

  Simon R. Green (2012). “The Bride Wore Black Leather”, p.211, Penguin

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• You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

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  Running, Irony, Sometimes

  Simon R. Green (2007). “The Man With the Golden Torc”, p.196, Penguin

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

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  World, Rogues, Lovers

  Simon R. Green (2009). “Just Another Judgement Day”, p.112, Penguin

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

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  Waiting, Principles, Updates

  Simon R. Green (2011). “A Hard Day's Knight”, p.91, Penguin

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

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  Men, Promise, Doe

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.14, Penguin

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

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  Don't Trust Anyone, Can't Trust Anyone, Don't Trust

  Simon R. Green (2011). “Hellworld”, p.65, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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

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  Life And Love, Making Love, Matter

  Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.206, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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

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  Long, Immortal, Manage

  Simon R. Green (2012). “The Bride Wore Black Leather”, p.32, Penguin

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• When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.

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  Tired, Tired Of Life, Havens

  Simon R. Green (2015). “The Guards of Haven”, p.10, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• Future is like an asshole. Everybody has one.---John Taylor (Nightside Series)

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  Series

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• Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.

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  Farewell, Night, Lasts

  Simon R. Green (2016). “Deathstalker Coda”, p.297, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it doesn't care if you habitually pass by on the other side. It's just there for when you need it. Dedicated to the patron saint of lost causes, St. Jude's is an old old place... St. Jude's isn't a place for comfort for frills and fancies and the trappings of religion. just a place where you can talk to your god and sometimes get an answer.

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  Usual, Comfort, Saint

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• 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.

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  Doors, House, Saws

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.3, Penguin

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• 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?

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  Blood, Games, Play

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• 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.

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  Running, Dog, Pride

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.37, Penguin

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• Books can be terrible snobs.

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  Book, Terrible, Snob

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• 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.

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  Reality, Men, Victory

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.124, Penguin

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• The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.

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  Hero, Kind, Good Hero

  Simon R. Green (2011). “Ghostworld”, p.102, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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