Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but from the bad intentions of men.

Who knows what is really going on within a criminal enterprise? Criminals

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.

He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.

Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money.

Never piss off a gangster.

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.

Whack 'em, stack 'em and pack 'em.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.