Simon R. Green citations

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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