Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“No one could tie you tighter than you could tie yourself and it was the ropes you couldn't see that bound you…

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“She was herself, the original. Everyone else was just a copy.”

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only…

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“We die every day," Kit said. "It's called being human.”

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes.

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.”

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“that opening position in every negotiation. The one that said, out of the goodness of my heart I'm going to agree to…

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“He was just one of those people ... one of a thousand expats who'd dragged their unhappiness to the other side of…

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.”

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“Seems to be catching." "What is?" asked Neku. "Wanting Kit dead." Neku shrugged. "He was fucking the wife of a gang boss…

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters”

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“the answer was no, whatever her query was, except for those bits to which his answer was yes”

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or a twist of vision…

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

“No one owns you, I know that. No one owns me. No one owns anyone. We just get to borrow each for…

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood