Top 59 Kate Griffin Quotes
#1. For life is magic, magic is life, the left-over life we don't even notice we're living.
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#2. Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.
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#3. The armored men counted to three, then burst inside the flat, shouting impressive things like "clear!" or "go go go!" as they did. Oda said, "Gum?"
"You chew gum?"
"No. but I always carry it, to use as barter when visiting prisons."
"Do you see how I'm not asking you?"
"Smart.
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#4. How can you bear to understand that you will get old and lose this feeling, will die and wither and encounter nothing but dark? How can you bear it? Since
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#5. I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
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#6. Paranoia seems more reasonable when you've got twelve stitches in your side.
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#7. Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.
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#8. all paperwork is, pardon my language, Ms Li, pestilential putrefaction designed to confound the real work of society in a quagmire of bullshit?
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#9. A small child being dragged to bed peered curiously at me as it passed, then waved. We waved back, not being entirely sure how else to respond to small creatures like that.
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#11. Always be polite to possible murderers: that was the twenty-four-hour-shopping philosophy.
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#12. I like walking. Each step is a thought without words, a thought without words is a thought without blame, without retribution, without consequence.
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#13. He glanced up as I entered, and for a moment, looked almost surprised.
"Mr. Swift!"
"Ta-da!" I exclaimed weakly.
"You're still ... "
"Still not dead. That's me. It's my big party trick, still not being dead, gets them every time.
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#14. Little Lion Street was presumably named after an incident hundreds of years ago which concerned something little and almost certainly involved a street but, Rhys felt, had in no way included a lion.
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#15. They had grown bored with ordinary living and needed to seek out this new thrill to make up for the mundanities of existence. And
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#16. You read - seen - Lord of the Rings?" "Yessss ... " "Ever wondered why they didn't just get the damn eagles to go drop the One Ring into the volcano, since they seemed so damn nifty at getting into Mordor anyway?
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#17. So ... I suggest you try and get control over your more unusual nature, see if you can't coax those claws away, and I'll try very, very hard not to throw up over what's left of your shoes. How does that sound?
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#18. They seemed to be of that age when things were either one or the other, with no middle ground.
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#19. Between nowhere in particular and somewhere less than distinct.
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#20. It's the new me," I explained, waving my hands jazz-style in greeting. "Matthew Swift, Midnight fucking Mayor - I've got multicoloured highlighters and everything.
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#21. Nine times out of ten I've no idea what I'm saying and I'm only ever nice to people because I don't have the charisma or the knowledge or any of that to get away with witty put-downs,
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#22. You know how it is
you get older, you get wiser, you start to ask yourself 'is it any use being able to summon creatures of the nether deeps when I could be watching BBC 4?
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#23. We burn because of the beauty in the burning, because life is precious, extraordinary, and we would live as if we were on fire with the brightness of it.
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#24. The good must be merciful, even if that mercy to the damned is merely in a quick dispatch.
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#25. The exorcist had a slightly Australian tinge to his voice, and the laid-back, whatever-comes-next attitude of a man who had suddenly realised two degrees short of a sunstroke that exorcism was the perfect career choice he'd never been offered in school.
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#26. Never argue with the surreal; there's no winning against irrationality.
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#27. Sharon spoke slowly and carefully. It was, she'd found, the best way to create an illusion of shamanly wisdom, as people often mistook cautious speech for being thoughtful instead of panic-struck.
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#29. Sharon exuded the brightness of a firefly, the confidence of a double-decker bus, the optimism of a hedgehog and the tact of a small thermonuclear missile.
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#30. It was not the flesh we would have chosen, but I had long since given up dreams of resembling anyone from the movies and, with the pragmatism of the perfectly average, come to realise that this was me and that was fine.
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#31. I hesitated. Truth shot a sly glance at expediency, expediency waggled its eyebrows significantly, truth made a little noise at the back of its throat, and expediency jumped straight on in there.
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#32. The van stank of cabbage and cornered like a drunken elephant. It would do.
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#33. Someone says 'inauguration' in my line of work, and you can just bet there'll be freaky shit. It's like quests. You get told to 'go forth and seek the travelcard of destiny' and you know, I mean, you seriously know that it won't have just been left down the back of the sofa.
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#34. I got dressed. You can't be Midnight Mayor in your underpants.
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#35. Me?" Penny's voice, surprised. "Well, I'm Penny Ngwenya, Matthew's butt-kicking, life-saving, totally awesome apprentice. Um. Hi.
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#36. Coincidence is usually mentioned only when something good happens. Whenever it's something bad, it's easier to blame someone, something.
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#37. The mind forgets pain, the physical sensation of pain. It doesn't forget terror.
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#38. The dream state just before wakening when it seems perfectly logical for the goldfish not to like peeling its own potatoes on the bus.
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#39. I've been reading up on management speak, and I'm guessing that where you say, 'somewhat clouded', what you really mean is 'totally down the pan and in the shit'?
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#40. You are deliberately being cryptic," she exclaimed. "Why?" "Because I don't like you.
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#41. Where there is life, there will be magic; the one generates the other.
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#42. Even if you've no idea where you're going, you have to look like you do. It's what keeps the locals different from the strangers.
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#43. Are you aware, Mr Mayor, then when casually scrying the streets of London, you stand out like a giraffe on roller skates, yes?
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#44. If you could understand by yourself why a thing was true, you would believe it more than just having it told to you by a teacher.
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#45. Mortals building things the same in the hope that conformity will set them free.
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#46. Are you really going to ask such inane questions all the time? Mystic bloody forces; just accept them and cope!
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#47. Ley lines exist but, like all of magic, they are formed where life is thickest, and where meaning is imposed by man. Life is magic; magic grows where there is most life.
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#48. We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free!
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#49. But it's not healthy!" replied the Hag. "A mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?"
"You know, this isn't why we're here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever."
"Yeah," sighed the Maid, "but I bet a tenner I can make you cry in half a minute.
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#50. When we blaze, when we fight, when we rejoice, then I am all us, for that is all we are. When I am ... afraid ... we do not understand, do not like these things. We are me. It is ... frightening, having to be me.
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#51. Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out.
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#53. There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a kid, but still human.
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#54. Good luck and the eternal interlinked cycle of life crap.
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#56. Whoever had said in the guidebooks that the bum bag was a sensible device against theft had lied; no single item of dressware ever invented cried out "mug me" more than a pouch of zip-up plastic suspended by your groin.
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#57. We are
the scylla sisters.
We love
each other
so much
though sometimes it hurts
and sometimes it is joy
and always
together.
We love each other.
Because no one else will.
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#58. The whole calamity would be in one of those police reports that D. B. Sinclair and his "concerned citizens" filed carefully under "T" for "Things" at the back of a locked filing cabinet in the vehicle-licensing centre a day before a bonfire got accidentally out of control.
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#59. We were beginning to understand why, in pre-anaesthetic days, the Bible had stipulated that suicide was a sin. Anything other than the prospect of eternal damnation, and the human race would probably have done away with itself at the first sign of the dentist.
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