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Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.

Worship Me Like the Goddess I Am or There Will Be Some Serious Smiting.
Jubilee

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

I could have been a contender, if I'd cared enough.

I chose to help people, because there'd been no-one there to help me when I needed it.

The truth might set you free, but there's nothing that says you have to be grateful.

While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.

Honor and duty will ride upon my shoulders till the day I die, like the old man of the sea, who once picked up can never be put dow.

Beyond a certain point, hope is more than self-indulgence. It's self-harm.

You know how it is, boss; you're out on the town with a few friends, drinking it up; you're young, you've got incendiaries ... shit happens.

To fight with demons, your intent must be pure. And even then, there's no guarantee you'll win.

Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell.

What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?

Oh God, it's her, run!

Lot of them were wearing T-shirts under their lab coats, bearing the legend I Blow Things Up, Therefore I Am, Even If Someone Else Suddenly Isn't.

Big corporations aren't always the bad guys; but it's the sensible way to bet.

What's one more crazy thing in the midst of all this weirdness?

Future is like an asshole. Everybody has one.
John Taylor (Nightside Series)

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

Paranoid? Why do you want to know?

And a quartet of fuzzy post-nuclear mutants were showing each other strange alien porn on the televisions they had implanted in their stomachs.

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

Most of my relatives could start a fight in an empty room and then lie about who won.

After all, you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

Never go anywhere without condiments. Condiments are our friends.

Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.

Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.

You have to believe in your dreams because sometimes they believe in you.

Angel: And what will you do with the world, once it is yours?'
N. Hob: 'Punish it, for not loving me.

This isn't Hell, it's the Nightside. Thought sometime you can see Hell from here.

Steal from the best, and call it research!

Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.

The Necropolis furnaces ran full-time, and a lot of restaurants boasted a Soylent Green special on their menus, for the more discerning palates.

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

Let us take it for granted that I am careless and ungrateful and never appreciate anything you do for me and move on, shall we.

Just because we protect the world, it doesn't mean the world is always grateful.

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

It's always thoughts of family that drive me crazy, and it's always my friends who bring me back.
Agents of Light and Darkness p.218

It was years since I'd last been here, a lifetime. It was yesterday.

Secret agents gossip like schoolgirls. Just because they know they shouldn't. Parker

God does so love to make a man break a promise.

I went to a house that was not a house. I opened a door that was not a door. And what I saw, I saw.

Strangefellows's owner and bartender was a thin pale streak of misery who only wore black because no-one had come up with a darker colour yet.

Cursed with conscience and damned with duty, because that's how we always reward the best of us.

Books can be terrible snobs.

When all else fails, you can always damn yourself with a necessary evil, for the greater good.

You put butter in a pocket watch and it's bound to mess up the works even if it is the very best butter.

Someone's looking for a short sharp visit from the Slap Fairy, said Melody.

I'd never seen so many Goths in one place. All dark clothes and brooding faces, like a gathering of small thunderclouds.

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

Revenge is simply justice with teeth.

Be good, my dears, and if you can't be good don't do it in front of witnesses!

I'm exempt from anything I damned will feel like on the grounds that I'll kick anyone's ass who says otherwise.

Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.

A private face behind every public mask, a hidden meaning peeking through whatever words they choose to share with you.

My Suzie, also known as Shotgun Suzie, also known as Oh Christ It's Her, Run.

The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.

Sometimes you can't save everyone. Sometimes all you can do ... is kill a whole bunch of people.

faced some strange

You can always rely on a woman to fight dirty, I said, and all the other men nodded solemnly in unison - until

No damned thing from the vasty deeps is going to get the better of me in my own home.

What am I going to do with all these bodies?" Said Jimmy, just a bit plaintively."I can't keep them, I don't have the cupboard space.

I am the scalpel that cuts out infection, and the heartbreak that makes men wiser.

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

You're the only man I know who makes the sign of the cross when confronted with broccoli.

If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down.

This is Nightside," said Deadboy. "We do ten impossible things before breakfast, just fora cheap thrill. Abandon all taboos, ye who enter here.

I am in charge, therefore I am officially the only one allowed to panic.

I am not weird!" I said. "I'm just differently normal.

The light may cast many reflections but is it still the light that matters.

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

Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

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

When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.

They're currently sulking, by the way, and comforting themselves by sending abusive e-mails to Bill Gates.

A vampire was drinking a bloody Mary, and from the look on her face Mary was really getting into it.

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers

Because when you wear a mask long enough, it gets really hard to take it off. The mask becomes your face.

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

Madness is when all your nightmares have come true and you just don't care anymore.

No more shooting from anyone. Or I am going to get seriously cranky with everyone. Suddenly, and violently and all over the place.

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.

Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.

I'll say this for the man: He never had any problems thinking big. Thinking rationally and responsibly, yes, major problems there ...

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

There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.

To show a mask and mirror to the world, and never let them see you're hurting.

When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.

There's nothing like a major emergency and the almost certain death of the whole damned world to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

Never get attached to possessions ... . They're just things and you can always get more things.

I always feel most alive when everything else is dying all around me

sometimes dreams are all that can keep you going. Give them up, and you're dead.

I am large. I contain multitudes," I said solemnly. "Especially on Tuesdays.

Men," said Suzie. "Why don't you just get them out and measure them?

And we all have the right to go to Hell in our own way.

with a whim of iron.