“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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“He began the patter, the Ladies-and-gentlemen-I-want-to-welcome-you-to. Dot and Bertie Fetters sat forward in their seats, so thrilled to be entertained that for the moment they forgot that the purpose of their trip was to mourn. But then that was the point of magic, to take people in, make them forget what was real and possible. They were so utterly game that when Sam Spender asked if there was anyone in the audience from out of town, they raised their hands, not knowing that everyone in Los Angeles was from out of town.”
― Ann Patchett, quote from The Magician's Assistant
“High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.”
― David Sedaris, quote from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Gliding down the bike path on a Saturday morning, you whip by somebody peddling in the opposite direction and give each other a nod. For a moment it's like "Hey, we're both doing the same thing. Let's be friends for a second.”
― Neil Pasricha, quote from The Book of Awesome
“It was an idea consonant with Trench’s underlying thought, that any grand new dictionary ought to be itself a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.”
― Simon Winchester, quote from The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
“I once again fought against the desire to bitch-slap a faerie”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
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