Quotes of: Simon Keyword

Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.

Envy

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

Excellent Women

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

Excellent Women

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

The Forgotten Garden

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

The Forgotten Garden

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

The Goat-Foot God

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

A Guide to Men

He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too

The Bane Chronicles

Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!

The Bane Chronicles

To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.

The Bane Chronicles

[Maisie]:...going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start -

Birds of a Feather

Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it?

Birds of a Feather

When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.

The Bronze Horseman

It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

Clockwork Angel

The Chairman likes you.” “Is that good?” “I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like,” Magnus said easily, and stood up.

City of Ashes

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

Clockwork Angel

Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

City of Fallen Angels

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

City of Ashes

Bitten? You mean you're a-" "A werewolf," said the girl. "Like everyone else here. Except you, and the asshole. And the asshole's sister.

City of Ashes