Tom Holt

Quotes

1. “What did you think,” he asked – with obvious restraint – “of the music?”

   “I got used to it,” she replied, after a bit. “Like a dripping tap,” she added.

   p. 5

2. 

   His role in history was rather like that of lettuce in the average salad; it achieves no useful purpose, but there's always a lot of it.

   p. 3

3. 

   They don’t mean anything, you know. They hurt, but they’re only feelings. They don’t draw blood or make it difficult for you to breathe. They’re all in the mind. Life is about eating and drinking and sleeping and breathing and working, and not being more unhappy than you absolutely have to.

   p. 177

4. 

   “So you've never had any urge to rule the world, or anything like that?”

   “What, me?” Vanderdecker said. “No, I can't say I have. It would be nice to change some things, naturally.”

   Jane leaned forward and looked serious. “Such as?”

   Vanderdecker considered. “I don't know,” he said, “now you come to mention it. I can't actually think of anything that even remotely matters. You get such a wonderful sense of perspective at my age.”

   p. 130

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