177 quotes found
Novelist · English · 1961
English novelist (born 1961)
“Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances.”
“The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, st...”
“Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrie...”
“You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?''Wow,' she said, 'you got it. I thought I was going to have to explain that one for a lot longer.”
“There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundre...”
“Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.”
“Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.”
“You’re talking about gold and silver, cash and securities. I’m talking about the sheer beauty of the land, the value of unpolluted parkland made wild and staying wild forever.”
“The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidin...”
“Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telephone directory would yield about four thousand John Miltons, two thousand William Blakes, a thousan...”
“Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct ans...”
“I was in '78 recently," he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?”
“Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners ...”
“…the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.”
“Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.”
“A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.”
“Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...excep...”
