Top 100 Simon R. Green Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.”

— Simon R. Green

52. “It’s not your uncle Harvey again, is it?” I said. “The one who thinks he’s a giant rabbit?”

— Simon R. Green

53. “You sure you want to come with me?” I said. “The odds are not good.” “We’re family,” said Suzie. I had to smile. “I haven’t been all that lucky when it comes to family.” “We’re the family you chose,” said Dead Boy. “The family that matters.”

— Simon R. Green

54. “A defrocked heretic accountant, Grimm had learned just enough mathemagics to be a nuisance, if not actually dangerous, and had been thrown out of the Accountants’ Guild for unethical use of imaginary numbers.”

— Simon R. Green

55. “Sit down and shut up,” said Melody. “You volunteered for this.” Happy looked at her. “I did? When?” “When I told you to,” said Melody. “Oh, well, that’s all right then,” said Happy. He sat down.”

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56. “Cursed with conscience and damned with duty, because that’s how we always reward the best of us.”

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57. “There is a line I will not cross.”

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58. “Oh God, it’s her, run!”

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59. “The doors of Hell are never bolted or barred, to those who belong there.”

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60. “I’m not crazy. I know what I’m doing. You’re just jealous because the voices only speak to me.”

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61. “Sorry,” I said. But I’ve been recently diagnosed as fashion intolerant. I can’t wear anything good, in case I develop style.”

— Simon R. Green

62. “I’ve known what it feels like, when your whole life hurts so much that you’re ready to die, just for the pain to stop. A little less stubbornness, a little more resolve at certain moments, and I might have been one of these poor trapped souls...”

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63. “Why don’t you just shoot yourself in the head now and get it over with?”

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64. “Books can be terrible snobs.”

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65. “There’ll always be small, bitter people ready to follow some charismatic leader who promises them peace and happiness through justified violence and the killing of scapegoats.”

— Simon R. Green

66. “Sometimes you do things to yourself so bad that the memories have barbs and never let you go.”

— Simon R. Green

67. “They say you can’t go home again, but you can if you carry a big enough stick.”

— Simon R. Green

68. “You can learn all kinds of useful things at a really good finishing school,’ she said. ‘So don’t try anything like that again, or I will show you the special ball-breaking kick the nuns taught me at St Theresa’s School for Exemplary Youngsters.”

— Simon R. Green

69. “Paranoid? Why do you want to know?”

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70. “Nostalgia for old fictions is the strongest nostalgia of all.”

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71. “It was years since I’d last been here, a lifetime. It was yesterday.”

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72. “They burn down Satanist churches, perform exorcisms on politicians, and they once crucified a street mime. Upside down. And then they set fire to him. A lot of people applauded.”

— Simon R. Green

73. “You’re the only man I know who makes the sign of the cross when confronted with broccoli.”

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74. “Ghosts are the only ones who never have to feel scared. Because the worst thing in the world has already happened to them.”

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75. “It’s only a short step from a burning bush to a burning heretic, after all. I try not to bother God, and hope He’ll do me the same courtesy.”

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76. “You can always rely on a woman to fight dirty,” I said, and all the other men nodded solemnly in unison – until.”

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77. “Too many people live the lives other people think they ought to, following orders they don’t agree with, for causes they don’t believe in. They live lives that don’t matter, that touch no one and change nothing. For better or worse, you and I stared evil in the eye and didn’t flinch. We raised our swords and went to war, and even if we didn’t win we kicked some ass along the way. We made a difference, and that’s all any man can ask.”

— Simon R. Green

78. “Polar bears always raise one arm across their face because they’re pretending to be Batman. Great fans of Adam West, the polar bears.”

— Simon R. Green

79. “Because she never trusted anything until she’d seen it with her own eyes. And preferably kicked it a few times.”

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80. “What the hell are you doing here? You weren’t on the guest list. Hell, you people aren’t on anybody’s guest list. If you turned up at a funeral, the corpse would walk out on you.”

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81. “The Night Times has prided itself throughout its long history in telling the truth, the whole truth, and as much gossip as it could get away with.”

— Simon R. Green

82. “Be good, my dears, and if you can’t be good don’t do it in front of witnesses!”

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83. “And... by the pricking of my thumbs, something morally ambiguous this way comes.”

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84. “The next few rooms held a severed hand that was trying to grow itself a new body; a Time Agent whose latest regeneration had gone terribly wrong, turning him inside out; and a sorry-looking werewolf with mange.”

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85. “Big corporations aren’t always the bad guys; but it’s the sensible way to bet.”

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86. “Love conquers all,” murmured Kim. “I heard it in a song, so it must be true.”

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87. “The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.”

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88. “Many of the self-styled prophets recognised me, and made the sign of the cross at me. Some made the sign of the extremely cross, and shook hand-made charms and fetishes at me.”

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89. “I’ve never been good at puzzles. When you wear a suit of armour that can punch holes through the world, mostly you don’t have to be. Other people will normally fall all over themselves to tell you everything you need to know. The Somnambulist started to snore quietly. Walker.”

— Simon R. Green

90. “The past is what we make of it, if we know what’s is good for us.”

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91. “Do we at least have a plan, darling?’ ‘See what there is to see, and if anything moves hit it till it doesn’t.’ ‘Good plan,’ said Penny.”

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92. “You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement?”

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93. “I sipped the stuff carefully before giving my opinion. ‘Vile,’ I said. ‘Truly vile, with a creeping undertaste of Oh My God.”

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94. “No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us.”

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95. “I’m so sorry. I killed your mother.’ ‘That’s all right,’ said Penny. ‘We weren’t close.”

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96. “Love is for the living, for people who have a stake in the future.”

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97. “The bleeding’s stopped,’ I said. ‘You know I heal quickly.’ ‘Not that quickly,’ said Penny. ‘All right,’ I said. ‘If there’s any fighting to be done, you can do it.’ ‘You’re too kind,’ said Penny. ‘I’ve always thought so,’ I said.”

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98. “My mother turned out to be a Biblical Myth; from that part of the Old Testament where God gets really angry.”

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99. “They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.”

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100. “There’s something up ahead,’ I said. ‘Something really bad.’ ‘So of course we’re heading straight for it,’ said Penny. ‘At some point, we’re going to have to sit down and have a serious talk about making better lifestyle decisions.”

— Simon R. Green