The Midnight Mayor Quotes

#1. Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

Hugh Mackay

#2. 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.

Kate Griffin

#3. 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.

Kate Griffin

#4. How did he change? What was he like before?" ...
"He was happy before.

Carrie Ryan

#5. Where there is wisdom there is life,
and where there is evil there is death.
Folly is your enemy and so are fools;
wisdom is your friend and so are the wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. 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.

Kate Griffin

#7. 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.

Kate Griffin

#8. My family do not think I'm special - not one, one bit.

Sophie Monk

#9. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

John Selden

#10. I got dressed. You can't be Midnight Mayor in your underpants.

Kate Griffin

#11. Never argue with the surreal; there's no winning against irrationality.

Kate Griffin

#12. Daniel's voice brushed along my cheek like dark feathers, like a long night wind coming down from some far mountain. Take what you want and pay for it, says God.

Tana French

#13. I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and have that ability to concentrate, or if it's just never going to happen for them. It's a little unnerving, frankly.

Ron Currie Jr.

#14. Alone you are a warrior;
together we are an army.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. 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.

Kate Griffin

#16. Always be polite to possible murderers: that was the twenty-four-hour-shopping philosophy.

Kate Griffin

#17. The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

Wilt Chamberlain

#18. 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.

Kate Griffin

#19. Paranoia seems more reasonable when you've got twelve stitches in your side.

Kate Griffin

#20. Law of gravity,' Reacher said. 'If you tip it up,

Lee Child

#21. 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.

Kate Griffin