129 Quotes by Tom Holt

Malcolm turned round quite slowly. He had had a bad day, but not so bad that he could face talking badgers - talking dead badgers - with equanimity.

He could hear rain pattering on the thatch, like a million mice line-dancing.

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

But something told Malcolm that plumbing made gurgling noises, not stealthy creeping noises.

It was one of those moments when the moral high ground opens and swallows you up.

It had all dropped into place, like the last bit of the jigsaw, which you thought all along was a bit of left-hand sky, but when you turn it over you realise it's the last chunk of right-hand sea, or the sky tricksily reflected in the surface of the pond.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else