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“We think of agents, traffickers and facilitators as the worst abusers of refugees, but when they set out to extort from their clients, when they cheat them or dispatch them to their deaths, they are only enacting an entrepreneurial version of the disdain which refugees suffer at the hands of far more powerful enemies â€� those who terrorise them and those who are determined to keep them at arm’s length. Human traffickers are simply vectors of the contempt which exists at the two poles of the asylum seeker’s journey; they take their cue from the attitudes of warlords and dictators, on the one hand, and, on the other, of wealthy states whose citizens have learned to think of generosity as a vice.

[from the London Review of Books Vol. 22 No. 3 · 3 February 2000]”
― Jeremy Harding

“Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering.â€�

Crane grinned at him. “One was in absentia. One wasn’t, and I spent three days in a condemned cell. I can’t recommend the experience.�

“And—did you say a smuggler?�

“That was what the death sentences were for.”
― K.J. Charles, The Magpie Lord

“The world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honour of kings.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“There weren’t many amulet smugglers around these parts. They mostly served Regime territory down south, where the so-called “demonsâ€� reigned. If you didn’t want a monster for a child, you’d pay a pretty penny for one of those necklaces. And if you were caught smuggling them, well, you’d pay with your pretty head.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Coilhunter

“Some days, the sheer amount of enemies we attracted made me question if maybe our crew was a little too trigger happy. That maybe we’d pissed in too many pots without thinking of the consequences.

But then I remembered most folks couldn’t hold to a basic code of honor if it killed them. And kill them we did.

Repeatedly.”
― Katherine McIntyre, The Airship Also Rises

“I lifted a brow. “You’re not going to try to blow up our ship, are you?”
― Katherine McIntyre, The Airship Also Rises

“There is a right way to do things and a wrong way, if you're going to run a hotel in a smugglers' town.”
― Kate Milford, Greenglass House

“He went through the bills with the jaundiced eye of a China trader, asking himself not whether he had been stolen from, but where the theft had occurred. If he couldn’t find it, that would suggest his factor back home in Shanghai was either cleverer or more honest than he had thought, and Crane didn’t think he was particularly honest.”
― KJ Charles

“Smugglers are always going to be flush with cash as soon as they find a buyer for the eight cartons of fountain pen cartridges that write in illegal shades of green, but they never have money today. You should, if you are going to run a smugglers' hotel, get a big account book and assume that whatever you write in it, the reality is, you're going to get paid in fountain pen cartridges. If you're lucky. You could just as easily get paid with something even more useless.”
― Kate Milford, Greenglass House

“The Hawkhurst Gang was a pernicious set of ruffians â€� smugglers, you understand â€� that held a rule of terror over the countryside when your grandfather was a boy. They committed every sort of atrocity, and were so strong in numbers â€� how many men was it they were able to muster within an hour, Father?’‘I forget,â€� returned his lordship shortly. ‘Five hundred,â€� supplied Richmond. ‘And they used to have regular battles with rival gangs!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Unknow Ajax

“…yet three acts were unanimously decided upon; first, to send all the women and children out of the village--next, to despatch a messenger to Woodchurch for military aid--and, next, to set about casting bullets immediately, as no shot larger than slugs were to be found in the place. The reader will probably ask, with a look of surprise, "Is this a scene in North America, where settlers were daily exposed to the incursions of the savages?"--and he may add, "This could not have happened in England!" But I beg to say, this happened in the county of Kent, less than a century ago; and persons are still living, who remember having been sent with the women and children out of the village, that the men might not be impeded by fear for those they loved, while defending the spot on which they were born.”
― George Payne Rainsford James, The Smuggler (Volumes I-III): A Tale