Un Lun Dun Quotes
"I conduct passengers to safety, I conduct myself with dignity. And there's one other thing that all of us who take the oath learn to conduct... Electricity."
"We can't just sit and feel sorry for ourselves."
"Every morning it rises in a different place."
"Hard to believe. But yes. I think we need to."
"Tell them if they give you safe passage they'll have earned the gratitude of the UnLondon conductors."
"What's the point making it a damn fool thing for spinning people round and round? The UnLondon-I has a purpose."
"Throw something away and you declare it obsolete."
"Words don’t always mean what we want them to. None of us. Not even you."
"You can’t pick and choose bits from a prophecy. That’s not how they work."
"We are not walking through each of your chapters, book!"
"It’s going to be harder to get the UnGun than the key."
"The Black Window doesn’t just kill you. It takes you right out of the world."
"The shark’s the perfect predator. The Black Window is the pluperfect predator."
"I wish you’d treat this information with the awe it deserves."
"For an hour or so the rather dejected little group followed the route they had mapped, as briskly as their exhausted limbs would let them."
"They did nothing to attract attention to themselves, and apart from their clothes being a little more dirty than most people’s, there wasn’t much noticeable about them."
"That was why, when Deeba first heard a motor approaching, she didn’t think it was anything to do with her."
"Murgatroyd was leaning from the platform, shouting, 'Deeba Resham, stop! We need to talk!'"
"'Wait, Deeba, wait!' It wasn’t just Murgatroyd leaning out now."
"'Wait, Deeba!' The voices were insistent. 'We want to help!'"
"'Listen,' whispered Deeba. 'The noise of the bus had ebbed.'"
"'I think we lost them,' Deeba said, and indicated the tight alley."
"'Leave us alone,' Hemi said. 'Leave her alone.'"
"'Stay back,' Deeba said. 'You don’t know it, but you’re working for the Smog.'"
"'These crazy allegations have to stop,' said a voice."
"'It’s a tranquilizer,' Murgatroyd said. 'I don’t want to use it, and I’m hoping you don’t make me.'"
"'Your friends’ve come along, to prove that you’ve no reason to be anxious,' Murgatroyd said."
"'The Unbrellissimo’s program to hand out unbrellas is continuing—nearly a third of UnLondon’ve been issued protection now,' Murgatroyd said."
"'That is enough!' Murgatroyd said. 'I’ve had enough of your slurs.'"
"'Ask him what, what the lurch is!' Deeba said."
"'That should keep him quiet for a good couple hours,' said Jones."
"'Funny how it all turns out,' he said. 'I’ve never been a renegade before.'"
"'What’s going to happen to him?' Hemi said, pointing at the immobile figure of Murgatroyd."
"'I dunno,' she said grudgingly. 'We couldn’t just do him in.'"
"'We don’t have much time. And I don’t even just mean with you and your family,' Jones said."
"'If they’re too stupid to see what’s what,' said Obaday Fing, 'that’s their own fault.'"
"'I’m probably making mistakes. But we haven’t got nothing to go against the Smog with,' Deeba said."
"'It’s taking over in patches,' Deeba said slowly. 'Separating us into camps. Easier to control.'"
"'There are mercenaries on the Smog’s side. Like the man who attacked you and the Shwazzy in the bus,' Obaday said."
"'They put out leaflets and graffiti and whatnot,' Jones said."
"'Fighting on the Smog’s side,' Jones said, seeing Jones, Hemi, and Obaday Fing exchange fearful glances."
"'Maybe this isn’t working,' Deeba whispered."
"'We have to get rid of them,' Deeba muttered."
"'We’re doomed,' whispered Deeba to Hemi as they trudged along."
"'You don’t mean that,' he whispered back. 'You don’t.'"
"'What’s that?' Hemi sniffed. The air was acrid, with a smell that wasn’t quite burning."
"'It’s exhaust,' said Deeba. 'Like car fumes. I bet you it’s from London.'"
"'Today they hand out the last unbrellas,' Hemi said."
"'And the Smog’ll make its final attack,' said Deeba."
"'Let’s make sure we get in the way,' said Deeba."
"Everyone except all the UnLondoners." - Deeba
"I want to learn everything I can get to." - Unstible-Smog
"It's not going to work. We have nothing." - Deeba
"I don’t want them to disappear either." - The book
"You think it’s over. They think they won." - Deeba
"The Smog's attacking on several fronts." - The book
"It’s not like ending. Everything burns." - Unstible-Smog
"All she could think, again and again, was: I have nothing."
"It’s no mistake! In the book! It’s not 'Nothing but the UnGun' the Smog’s scared of, it is supposed to be 'Nothing and the UnGun.'"
"Nothing’s the opposite of something. If I fire something, anything, from the UnGun, it shoots it out, and exaggerates it. So if I shoot nothing…"
"We know how to free his soldiers. Without them, he’s got nothing. And not," she added, "in the good way."
"Destiny’s bunk," said the book. "That’s why this lot aren’t the Propheseers anymore."
"I’ll explain," she said. "But basically…Nothing. Nothing happened."
"It’s all going well," Deeba said, looking around. "Be good to see what happens."
"You’ve spent all your time wanting to go!" said Jones.
"I can’t let my family forget me. Forget I even exist. Can you imagine?"
"What we did. I’ll never forget you. Any of you."