41 Quotes by Daniel O'Malley

The interior of the animal was much as one would expect: close and dark and damp, with an odd smell. It was rather, Odette thought, like trying to enter a really popular nightclub on New Year’s Eve.

Alessio reached out and took the suit as if it were made out of the scrota of war criminals.

There is no way this conversation is not going to get horrible, thought Odette. No situation is improved by the presence of a gigantic anus. At.

Don’t worry if the name means nothing to you. Most people never hear of it at all, but it has been in existence for centuries.

Here was the real lobby, obviously. A high ceiling arched gracefully. Elevator doors lined the walls, and she recalled from her reading that some led to the underground garage and some to the upper levels – a deliberate move to ensure that everyone entering the building had to go through multiple layers of security and pass the exceptionally large and prominently armed guards who sat at the ring of desks in the center. It was a beautiful room, and it was filled with people bustling about.

She felt a little pang of fondness for the woman who’d lived in her body. You couldn’t help liking someone who put all this effort into making you feel welcome.

We were ushered into the special reception room that important people go to so they won’t have to ensure Customs. It’s luxurious and private, and you don’t have to mingle with the public. It’s the room that you wait in if you are very, very powerful and once got shitfaced with Joseph of Arimathea. Or if you are Mick Jagger.

You think I’m in a daze because you’re handsome? I’m in a daze because I could crush you.

Unlike most other members of the Court, I do not regard the non-powered as being lesser. Perhaps it is because I lack the courage to go out and face what they do, but in any case I know they are just as good as me. Still, by long-standing tradition and policy, non-powered individuals cannot become members of the Court – the ruling circle. The Court answers to the highest individuals in the land only, and not always to them.