# Quote — Tom Holt, Djinn Rummy

> 'Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.'

- Author: [Tom Holt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt.md)
- Book: [Djinn Rummy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/djinn-rummy.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Holt#Djinn_Rummy_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/djinn-rummy/genies-rarely-have

## More from this book

> '...and we have already seen how insurance is like a pyramid -
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> (Huge, incomprehensible, hideously expensive, completely unnecessary and specifically designed only to be of benefit to you once you're dead?)'

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/djinn-rummy/and-we-have.md)