Top 28 Daniel O'Malley Quotes
#1. Behind me, Ingrid made a sort of muffled snorting sound. I can only assume she was choking on a breath mint. I shot her a look, hoping she hadn't heard anything, and saw she was wearing a poker face, which could only mean she'd heard everything.
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#3. Checquy statistics indicate that 15 percent of all men in hats are concealing horns.
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#4. You look like Cinderella," said Val in awe.
"Yeah, if she'd been into bondage and had Christian Dior for a godmother.
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#5. I'm not bipolar, I've just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.
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#6. Don't worry if the name means nothing to you. Most people never hear of it at all, but it has been in existence for centuries.
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#7. It is curious how the passing of lifetimes will change a man.
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#8. Plus, anyone who wants to clone himself is usually an asshole. You don't want any more of those running around than absolutely necessary." "So
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#9. That's the Rookery. It is hidden from the eyes of the populace, a secret fortress that protects the normal people even as they remain ignorant of it. It is a testament to the willingness of humanity to ignore the obvious.
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#10. Yes, Minister, it turns out that there was a mysterious force that caused that plane to crash. We call it gravity.
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#12. Having someone prancing around with an active chain saw while the ground shifted seemed spectacularly unwise.
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#13. I'm going back to sleep,' she said, lying back down. 'I shall see if there's anyone interesting asleep in America.'
'That seems rather like a contradiction in terms, ma'am.'
'God, you're such a snob.
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#14. Not that a locked door made a difference to me, since we'd all been rigorously trained in "the ladylike arts of breaking and entering,
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#15. She'd neglected makeup entirely, and those damn black eyes lent her the appearance of a raccoon. A raccoon that had gotten hit in the face. After a lifetime of poor nutrition. The silence was broken only by the humming of the lift, and it felt conspicuous.
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#16. I want to have the whole English experience. High tea, supervising manifestations, taking the waters, going to Harrods, discussing possible international conspiracies.
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#17. We weather the vagaries of history, welcoming new rulers and bending knees to those in power, whoever they may be. We are a tool of the nation, an asset of the British Isles. Those who work within the Checquy can accomplish what no one else can, and so they are the secret arm of the kingdom.
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#18. If Judas Iscariot were alive, and a woman, and attending formal functions, wearing this dress would still represent a disproportionate punishment for his sins." "Her
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#19. I've always been a pretty good researcher, said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we share, thought Myfanwy, but you didn't inherit the power to make people shit themselves. You've got to love the randomness of genetics.
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#20. The interior of the animal was much as one would expect: close and dark and damp, with an odd smell. It was rather, Odette thought, like trying to enter a really popular nightclub on New Year's Eve.
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#21. I'm not entirely certain who arranged to have the lighting in the Rooks' offices and quarters hooked up to the Panic Lines, but it has taught me to flinch violently when a lightbulb ceases to work.
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#22. If you want to switch jobs, then you can come over here right now and balance the extermination budget in London while (shuffling through papers) figuring out why the hell a two-door wardrobe in the spare room of a country house is considered to be a matter of national concern!
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#23. And her voice cut through the noise like a scythe through a poodle.
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#24. She was tall, and dressed in the kind of casual clothes that will let you kill someone easily and won't draw attention from passersby. Khakis are good for this sort of thing.
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#25. I don't care what you people say...we are not using a font that does not have fucking serifs." - Rook Myfanwy Thomas
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#26. Rook Thomas, you look different somehow."
"Well, I recently got the shit kicked out of me," she said.
"Ah, that would be it then.
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#27. Now, do you mind telling me why you have all these guns lying around? Are you afraid the paperwork will rise up against you?'
'Oh, no. I'm going to use the guns as paperweights.
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#28. When last we left our heroine (us), she was nine years old and about to stuff her gob with a chocolate digestive.
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