Kate Griffin

“Paranoia seems more reasonable when you've got twelve stitches in your side.”

— Kate Griffin

“So...I suggest you try and get control over your more unusual nature, see if you can't coax those claws away, and I'll…

— Kate Griffin

“Are you aware, Mr Mayor, then when casually scrying the streets of London, you stand out like a giraffe on roller skates,…

— Kate Griffin

“We...find it hard to conceive of...of a consciousness whose power, intellect and capacity can be both infinite and capable of caring," we…

— Kate Griffin

“We were beginning to understand why, in pre-anaesthetic days, the Bible had stipulated that suicide was a sin. Anything other than the…

— Kate Griffin

“Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out.”

— Kate Griffin

“I got dressed. You can't be Midnight Mayor in your underpants.”

— Kate Griffin

“I looked at Judith. "This sounds strange, but I don't suppose you saw three mad women with a cauldron of boiling tea…

— Kate Griffin

“You know, yeah, it seems to me like there are two kinds of chosen one. There's the kinda who gets chosen for…

— Kate Griffin

“It's the new me," I explained, waving my hands jazz-style in greeting. "Matthew Swift, Midnight fucking Mayor - I've got multicoloured highlighters…

— Kate Griffin

“The word spread. It began with the techno-literates: young summoners who couldn’t quite get their containment circles right and who had fallen…

— Kate Griffin

“Londoners have intense loyalties to the areas from which they come. Those born in Croydon will argue that theirs is a borough…

— Kate Griffin

“You want to know a secret?" "Always." "My real name is Dave." "I see." "This doesn't seem to amuse you." "I met…

— Kate Griffin

“We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be…

— Kate Griffin

“Because you had to see it, to believe it.”

— Kate Griffin

“There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a kid,…

— Kate Griffin

“I spent the day with the pigeons, on a bench in Trafalgar Square, my bag of belongings huddled to my chest in…

— Kate Griffin

“all paperwork is, pardon my language, Ms Li, pestilential putrefaction designed to confound the real work of society in a quagmire of…

— Kate Griffin

“When last I checked, you were a sorcerer, not a Jedi." "You've seen Star Wars?" "Seen it and denounced it." "You've denounced…

— Kate Griffin

“It seems to me that the greatest triumph of any human rights movement, be it fighting for racial, religious, sexual or gender…

— Kate Griffin

“Me?" Penny's voice, surprised. "Well, I'm Penny Ngwenya, Matthew's butt-kicking, life-saving, totally awesome apprentice. Um. Hi.”

— Kate Griffin

“We ran, as graceful as a burst beetroot.”

— Kate Griffin

“I was the apprentice of Robert James Bakker. I'm sure you've heard of him. I am a sorcerer. I was there when…

— Kate Griffin

“I hesitated. Truth shot a sly glance at expediency, expediency waggled its eyebrows significantly, truth made a little noise at the back…

— Kate Griffin

“The van stank of cabbage and cornered like a drunken elephant. It would do.”

— Kate Griffin