“You're late."
"Sorry. I was busy talking about my feelings and killing people.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“You're just jealous."
"Hardly. Been there, done you. Adequate, but unremarkable.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Luck hadn't smiled on me tonight. Capricious bitch.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“You picked that out?” Caine asked. “That pink, plastic toy?”
I turned to look at him. “I happen to have been a little girl, once upon a time, detective. I know what they like. Every little girl wants to be a princess.”
A thoughtful frown overcame the angry tension on Caine’s rugged face. “And what happens when they grow up?”
I thought of my mother and sisters and all the horrors that had happened the day they’d died. A bitter laugh escaped from my tight lips.
“Then they just want to be little girls again.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Executive Vice President? That's a nice way of saying he's someone's corporate bitch.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Emotions were for those too weak to turn them off.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“You can work with me—or you can wade through the blood and bodies after I'm done.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“I might be an assassin, but never let it be said I wasn't as gracious a hostess as the next gal.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Finn raised his coffee öug to me. "That's my girl. A bitch to the bitter end."
I saluted him with my sadwich. "Always”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“I'd come to terms with what I did long ago. The bodies, the blood, the tears of those left behind. Even the fact I was probably going to burn in hell didn't bother me. Much.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an assassin would be able to cook like this.” “Well, I do get lots of practice with knives. You could say I’m multitasking.” The detective froze, his fork halfway to his mouth. “I’m kidding. I enjoy cooking. It relaxes me.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Oh, Finn isn’t an assassin,” I cut in. “He’s much, much worse. He’s a banker.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Maybe I find him...interesting. Attractive in an uptight sort of way. But that won't keep me from killing him if he does something stupid—like try to double-cross us. That is something thats nonnegotiable, no matter how much fuck potential he might have.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“They’d played “Sweet Home, Alabama” so many times I wanted to crash the party, kill the radio, and knife whoever was selecting the music.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“He gave me his word. That means something to a man like Donovan Caine.
Yeah, it means you'll realize he's an exceptionally good liar when you're clutching your intestines and choking on your own blood on his living room floor.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Still, I'd do anything for him. Even smear his clotting blood inside the vehicle of his choosing.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“...he was muttering my name over and over. Gin, Gin, Gin. Like it was some sort of prayer—or a curse. Sexiest damn thing I’d ever heard.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“You've got a thing for Donovan Caine. You have ever since you killed Ingles, his partner, and he went all dogged and determined on you.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Easy was for people too weak to suck it up and do what needed to be done.
And I wasn’t weak. Not anymore.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Donovan Caine naked, water droplets sliding down his lean body, his muscles clenching and relaxing as he washes himself. Mmm. Nice image. Despite our earlier confrontation, I still found the detective extremely sexy. He'd be even more attractive if he'd lose the righteous anger and the stick up his ass. But no man was perfect.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Killing someone was easy - getting away with it was what was truly challenging.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Asylum. The word always made me
smile. Such a pretty name for a hellhole.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Ding-dong," I said. "The bitch is dead.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Handcuffs. Kinky. But I prefer to have a bit more freedom during sex. Don’t you?”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“Honesty will get you killed in this city.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
“I’d never been one to take the easy path in life. Easy was for people too weak to suck it up and do what needed to be done. And I wasn’t weak. Not anymore.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Spider's Bite
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“Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.”
― Matt Haig, quote from The Humans
“That's probably why she has added the two severed heads to the uprights of the throne. They lend her an undeniable air of not screwing around.”
― Nick Harkaway, quote from The Gone-Away World
“What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth.”
― Joseph Campbell, quote from Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
“Lucy had to guard her reputation - her reputation for sanity - the way that a woman a hundred years before would have had to guard her reputation for virtue.”
― Nancy Werlin, quote from Impossible
“My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.”
― China Miéville, quote from Un Lun Dun
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