Tom Holt

Quotes

1. The knight raises both eyebrows, like someone by Burne-Jones who's just trodden on something sharp. 'I am Prince Boamund, eldest son of King -'

   'Boamund?'

   'That's right,' says the knight, 'Boamund, eldest son of -'

   'How do you spell that?'

   Boamund looks worried. Where he comes from you can take advanced falconry, or you can take spelling; not both. Guess which one he opted for. - c. 1

2. 

   In the beginning was the Word. Nobody knows what it actually was, although it would be nice to think that it was 'Sorry.

3. 

   Between the town of Giles, to the north of the Tomkinson Range, and Forrest in the Nullarbor Plain, lies the Great Victorian Desert. It is hot, arid, desolate and merciless; and whatever the Creator had in mind when He made it that way, it most certainly wasn't human beings.

   It's a really awful place to be if you've got toothache.

4. 

   The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

5. 

   It may not be true, but it provides a much-needed focal point for baffled indignation.

   p. 93

6. 

   When he left Quincy's he returned to the studios and went to see the man who was going to tell him everything he needed to know about sports broadcasting in twenty-five minutes.

   “The main thing,” said the expert, is to turn up on the right day at the right place and keep the sound recordists out of the bar. Leave everything else to the cameramen, and you'll do all right. That's it.”

   p. 82

7. 

   Jane was a child of the media age, and there lurked in the back of her mind the instinctive belief that if a thing wasn't on the news, it couldn't really have happened after all.

   p. 203

8. 

   My mother can do it, of course, but then she understands machines. She tapes the Australian soaps, which I call a perverse use of advanced technology.

   p. 81

9. 

   Suddenly, she was not pretty at all; she looked like a thousand-year-old teenager who wanted something she knew she couldn’t have.

   p. 92

10. 

    Love? Love was a concept with which he was no longer comfortable. At his age, it did not do to take anything too seriously, and the depressing thing about love was the seriousness which had to go with it, just as these days you couldn't seem to get jumbo sausage and chips in a pub without a salad being thrown in as well.

    p. 190

11. 

    “Humans!” laughed the male duck. “And it’s the likes of you run the world. No wonder the rivers are full of cadmium.”

    p. 178

12. 

    And, like many missionaries, she was not above a little persecution in the cause of the communication of Enlightenment.

    p. 56