The Haunting Of Alaizabel Cray Quotes

#1. A strange irony, Crott reflected, that the most base and lowly of London folk were the most honour-bound of all, and that the value of honour diminished in direct proportion to the heights of society a man climbed to.

Chris Wooding

#2. Mankind is not yet mature enough to take responsability for its mistakes.

Chris Wooding

#3. He let the smoke drift around the inside of his mouth, trying to relax, but nothing could so easily dispel the unquiet that he felt.

Chris Wooding

#4. Darkness, terrible cold darkness, the salty depths of the deepest oceans where no light warmed the rocks and the weight of the black water would crush a man like a grape.

Chris Wooding

#5. Was it possible that he liked the world the way it was?

Chris Wooding

#6. Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign

Alexandre Dumas

#7. I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

John Ashbery

#8. Suddenly it was if she was merely a brain, being transported inside the skull of some hideous fleshy machine, a piece of living cargo in someone else's body.

Chris Wooding

#9. Look Fabian, the world is full of sheep, don't settle for being a sheep, even if you do reside over those creatures, act more like a Ram.

T.A. Uner

#10. This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11. A sit-down with your direct boss and establish what she expects you to be focusing on in the first days and weeks of the job. Take

Kate White

#12. How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

Gore Vidal

#13. Mad she may be, or possessed; or maybe only scared out of her wits.

Chris Wooding

#14. They would erect great temples, and cities built of bone and sinew, and their foulness would spread like a cancer until finally, a hundred years from now, Mother Earth would be theirs.

Chris Wooding

#15. She was quite maniac when I met her. I scared her, maybe.

Chris Wooding

#16. Nobody's ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

Terry Hayes

#17. It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

C.S. Lewis

#18. All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. He aimed at the lawyer's heart but missed it. It was a mistrial.

Natalya Vorobyova

#20. This was London, and you either held on, or fell by the walkside like that fellow had.

Chris Wooding

#21. I'm just a man. I think people are reacting to something else when they see me. They're not reacting to me, Eddie Murphy. They don't even know me. It's just luck and the God in me they're reacting to.

Eddie Murphy

#22. I want ... something other than what I know. She is so strange to me, you see? I think that her life must have been very different from mine (...) I want to know what that is like.

Chris Wooding

#23. Learning to hear when there is no crisis is good practice for when we are under fire and need urgent help.

Wendy Backlund

#24. I began to wonder what life would be like if I dropped the act and began to trust that being myself would be enough to get the love I needed.

Donald Miller

#25. She felt like a proper lady, she did.

Chris Wooding

#26. Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Joseph Joubert