“Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. “The Buddha teaches respect for all life.” “Oh.” She considered this. “Are you a Buddhist?” “No. I’m an asshole. But I keep trying.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Buddhism, he thought, is a clean religion. You never heard about how eight people—two of them children—just got blown the fuck up as part of the long-standing conflict between Buddhists and whoever.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Your affection is not meaningless to me, puny one. I shall devour you another day.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“As illustrated in any number of footnotes, men are almost always 50 to 60 percent dumber in matters involving their crotch.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Carolyn – I need you to go back into America. We need an innocent heart. We will offer it to Nobununga when he arrives. Do you think you can handle that?”
“An innocent heart? In America?” She hesitated.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“How, he wondered, did humanity ever get along without duct tape?”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Aren’t you violating the building codes? Or the laws of physics?”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“That’s the risk in working to be a dangerous person,” she said. “There’s always the chance you’ll run into someone who’s better at it than you.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“I was just wondering why you did that. Pretend to be a dipshit, I mean.” The president grinned. “Prolly the same fuckin’ reason you do.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Steve looked through the scope. The house was quiet now. Thin trickles of smoke leaked from the windows. As he watched, Mrs McGillicutty staggered outside. She was bloody and dazed, but very much alive. “Hey, there’s the old lady! What’s that she’s holding?”
Carolyn took the scope and looked for herself, then handed it back. “Muffins. She’s got muffins.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“OK, think of it this way. Do you know how microwaves work?”
“No.”
“It’s based on microwaves.”
“Oh, wait. I just remembered. I do know how microwaves work, and what you’re saying is bullshit.”
“Fine. It isn’t microwaves.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“As the days and weeks and seasons wore on he found himself repeating this nothing, not wanting to. Gradually he came to understand that this particular nothing was all that he could really say now. He chanted it to himself in cell blocks and dingy apartments, recited it like a litany, ripped himself to rags against the sharp and ugly poetry of it. It echoed down the grimy hallways and squandered moments of his life, the answer to every question, the lyric of all songs.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“No real thing can be so perfect as memory, and she will need a perfect thing if she is to survive. She will warm herself on the memory of you when there is nothing else, and be sustained.” Rubbing”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“We’re still waiting on the lab work.”
“It was a shotgun what did it, though. The same one?”
Dorn popped an eyebrow. “Good eye. You in forensics?”
“Not really.” He had killed a lot of people with shotguns.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“He understood, I think. The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Some people have an enormous capacity for feeling guilt, deserved or otherwise.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Stay away from windows. And if you see people with tentacles, stay away. Don’t let them touch you.” Harshen”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Are you a Buddhist?"
"No, I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Steve didn’t like the stairs. It bothered him that they hung in midair, unsupported. Steve said this “weirded him out."
This wasn’t surprising. The list of things that Steve found objectionable was long and growing. It included the Library itself (“How can the furniture hang on the ceiling like that? It’s creepy.”); the jade floor (“Jade isn’t supposed to glow.”); the apothecary (“What the hell is that thing? I’m out of here.”); the armory (David’s trophies made him throw up); the Pelapi language (“It sounds like cats fighting”); her robes (“Did you borrow those from Death?” She hadn’t.); and, of course, Carolyn herself.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Erwin especially relished that last phrase. ‘Like we was morons.’ He only trotted it out on special occasions.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“A few moments later Marcus was a member of a fairly exclusive club. He had no idea how many people had been firsthand witnesses to not one but two lion attacks, but he thought that the number would be very, very small. Gangsta, baby, he thought, and wet himself.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Jennifer, like Father, had something of a fetish for office supplies. A”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“For all intents and purposes, the power of the Library is infinite. Tonight we’re going to settle who inherits control of reality.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“It echoed down the grimy hallways and squandered moments of his life, the answer to every question, the lyric of all songs.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Before I move closer towards my vision of the Buddha, I would respectfully plead that you adopt a stance of compassion towards the small things of this world.” He”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“I’m making progress.” He turned and rumbled to Naga in the language of the hunt: “Thank you for not eating me today.” Naga’s voice came from the darkness: “Your affection is not meaningless to me, puny one. I shall devour you another day.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
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“You have to admit he's good looking," Bree pressed, leaning against my kitchen counter.
"Of course I admit it. I'm not blind," I said, busily opening cans.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Book of Shadows
“The flavor of that blood stayed with him through the long years of his service (...) by then he could no longer remember whose blood it was, only that he had grown used to the taste.”
― Holly Black, quote from Ironside
“Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Cryer's Cross
“The door handle turned. Someone knocked, and a man's voice called, "Uh, hello?"
Valkyrie looked at Skulduggery, looked back at the others, looked at Skulduggery again.
"Hello," Skulduggery said, speaking loudly to be heard over the alarm.
"Hi," said the man. "The door's locked."
"Is it?"
"Yes."
"That's funny" said Skulduggery. "Hold on a moment." He reached out, jiggled the handle a few times, then stepped back. "Yes, it's locked. You wouldn't happen to have the key, would you?"
There was a delay in response from the other side. "I'm sorry," the man called, "Who am I speaking with?"
Skulduggery tilted his head. "Who am I speaking with?"
"This is Oscar Nightfall."
"Are you sure?"
"What?"
"Are you sure you are who you say you are? This is the Great Chamber, after all. It's a very important place for very important people. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that someone, and I'm not saying that this applies to you in particular, but someone could conceivably lie about who they are in order to gain access to this room. I have to be vigilant, especially now. There's a war on, you know."
Oscar Nightfall sounded puzzled. Who are you?"
"Me? I'm nobody. I'm a cleaner. I'm one of the cleaners. I was cleaning the thrones and the door shut behind me. Now I can't get out. Could you try and find a key?"
"What's your name? Give me you name."
"No. It's mine."
"Tell me your name!"
"My name is Oscar Nightfall."
"What? No it isn't. That's my name."
"Is it? Since when?"
"Since I took it!"
"You didn't ask me if you could take it. I was using it first."
"Open this door immediately."
"I don't have the key."
"I'll fetch the Cleavers."
"I found the key. It was in the keyhole. It's always the last place you look isn't it? I'm unlocking the door now. Here we go."
Skulduggery relaxed the air pressure, opened the door, and pulled Oscar Nightfall inside. Valkyrie stuck out her foot, and Oscar stumbled over it and Vex shoved him to Ghastly and Ghastly punched him. Oscar fell down and didn't get up again. Skulduggery closed the door once more.”
― Derek Landy, quote from Last Stand of Dead Men
“Lionheart glared at the cat, who smiled back. "Can you read my mind?"
"No." The cat sniffed and seemed to smile. "I can smell it. Which is made the easier for the stink your thoughts give off. All this self-pity and moping! *I did what I had to do.* Lick my whiskers, you did. Be a man, and face your actions for what they were!”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl, quote from Moonblood
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