“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“As sweet as it feels, I can't lie here forever curled up in a big ball of fuck-the-world.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Don't drink too much."
"When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop."
"I'll have to get a shorter name."
"I'll have to forget how to spell it.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Don't talk. Kill it."
That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“The universe is a meat grinder and we're just pork in designer shoes, keeping busy so we can pretend we're not all headed for the sausage factory. Maybe I've been hallucinating this whole time and there is no Heaven and Hell. Instead of having to choose between God and the devil, maybe our only real choice comes down to link or patty?”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“The clerk is looking at me. His expression hasn't changed. What I want to do is punch a hole in the front of the desk, reach through, grab his balls, and make him sing The Mickey Mouse Club song. But these days, I'm working on the theory that killing everyone I don't like might be counterproductive. I'm learning to use my indoor voice like a big boy, so I smile back at the clerk.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“You were a prick and a crook, but no one deserves to go out the way you went. I hope it was over quick and that you tasted like ass all the way down. Amen.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Twenty percent? What am I, your waiter? I got you five vampires, not a BLT.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“I don't want to run for anything. I want to shove this miserable cheap-ass check so far up Wells's ass he can read the routing number out the back of his eyes.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“I'd like to think they're staring at me because of my white-hot animal magnetism, but I'm not Elvis. I'm Lobster Boy, hear me roar.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Most people are idiots. There's nothing worse than idiots who tell you their opinions.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Vices shouldn't be safe. They're what remind us we're alive and mortal.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Abandon all hope ye who piss me off.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“If Jesus, Jesse James, and a herd of pink robot unicorns strolled in walking on water, this bunch wouldn't even look up.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“That sounds like the sin of pride, Marshal. Better run downstairs and let Miss December flog it out of you. Webcam it and charge by the minute. You won't ever have to take government money again.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“There are two Venices I know about and one of them is a hotel in Vegas. The other is an L.A. beach where pretty girls walk their dogs while wearing as little as possible and mutant slabs of tanned, posthuman beef sip iced steroid lattes and pump iron until their pecs are the size of Volkswagens.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Oh Christ. Put me back with the zombies, Strawberry Shortcake." [p. 411]”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“I come from a long line of tall-tale talkers. Our family crest is bullets over crossed fingers and underneath it says, ‘Bullshit Über Alles.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Sometimes there’s nothing worse than the truth. It can be harder and sharper and hurt more than a knife. The truth can clear a room faster than tear gas.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“It could have been ten.” “What’s that mean?” “It’s a Hellion joke. When God threw them from Heaven, they fell for nine days, so when everything goes to shit you say…” “…It could have been ten.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
“Did you send candy and flowers on Valentine's Day, Wells? It's okay, you know. He was a saint.”
― Richard Kadrey, quote from Kill the Dead
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“Nothing ever works like you predict it. All plans fall apart as soon as the first shot is fired.”
― Lee Child, quote from Persuader
“If you need anything, ask your butler.’
‘Butler?’ There was a word that had never before entered her life.
‘They come with the suites.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“I can easily imagine belonging to one man for my entire life, but he would have to be a whole man, a man who would dominate me, who would subjugate me by his inate strength. And every man—I know this very well—as soon as he falls in love becomes weak, pliable, ridiculous. He puts himself into the woman's hands, kneels down before her. The only man whom I could love permanently would be he before whom I should have to kneel.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, quote from Venus in Furs
“and—wait, I’m sorry, did you call me Ryan Theodore?” She waves her hand as if the question is inconsequential. “I don’t know your middle name so I had to make one up. Because, sweetie, you really needed to be middle-named for mangling those poor onions.”
― Sarina Bowen, quote from Him
“The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel's mind, and she became profoundly excited at the thought of living.”
― Virginia Woolf, quote from The Voyage Out
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