“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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“John had once said to me, in a complaining tone, that Father had taught us to be afraid of no man except him. And it was true. Father always insisted that we think for ourselves in every way, except when we disagreed with him, and that we hold ourselves independent of every man’s will, except his. He wanted us simultaneously to be independent and yet to serve him. Father was to be our Abraham; we were to be his little Isaacs. We were supposed to know ahead of time, however, the happy outcome of the story—we were supposed to know that it was a story, not about us and our willingness to lie on a rock on Mount Moriah and be sacrificed under his knife, but about our father and his willingness to obey his terrible God.”
― Russell Banks, quote from Cloudsplitter
“My anger subsides, I'd like to pee.”
― Samuel Beckett, quote from Endgame
“Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel’enedra. Love must ever live free.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Oathbreakers
“GOD proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks. It’s a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from GOD. It’s a good thing when you’re young to stick it out through the hard times. 28-30 When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don’t ask questions: Wait for hope to appear. Don’t run from trouble. Take it full-face.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, quote from The Message Remix (Bible in Contemporary Language)
“Although divine bewilderment addresses its grief to the universe, it only cries out to it. It has to find its answer, if at all, in its own final act. It is not to be found among the answers God gave to Job in a whirlwind.”
― Norman Maclean, quote from Young Men and Fire
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