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Rob Thurman QUOTES

1 " I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven. "

― Rob Thurman

2 " Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now. "

― Rob Thurman , Trick of the Light (Trickster, #1)

3 " You're the little spoon, aren't you? "

― Rob Thurman , Trick of the Light (Trickster, #1)

4 " Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow. "

― Rob Thurman , Blackout (Cal Leandros, #6)

5 " Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American way–for them it wasn't only a comic book code; it was a way of life. it was admirable, courageous, and inconvenient as shit. -Stefan, CHIMERA "

― Rob Thurman , Chimera (The Korsak Brothers, #1)

6 " Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher "

― Rob Thurman , Roadkill (Cal Leandros, #5)

7 " Told me that when you bury emotions like that, you're only pissing them off ... making them stronger, because you're burying them alive. They don't like that, and one day they'll make sure that you don't like it either. "

― Rob Thurman , Madhouse (Cal Leandros, #3)

8 " The guy had guts—I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them. "

― Rob Thurman , Nightlife (Cal Leandros, #1)

9 " I wonder if I brought my Silly-cat in…could you tell me what she’s thinking?’
‘I can tell you what she’s thinking right now, no touching necessary,’ I drawled. ‘She’s thinking if she were three times her size, she would eat you.’ …Every cat that was awake when I’d smoothed its fur with a bare hand thought that. Every cat I touched that was asleep dreamed that. "

― Rob Thurman , All Seeing Eye

10 " If I had a bad day, which, now that I ran my own life, was a helluva lot less than the old days, I sat on the floor with Houdini, placed a hand on his broad head, and soaked up endless doggy wonder. A full stomach, a well-chewed toy, a soft couch—through a dog’s eyes, that was a true glory that couldn’t be matched, the only heaven in existence. I missed the furball, missed him like crazy. "

― Rob Thurman , All Seeing Eye

11 " Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can. "

― Rob Thurman

12 " When I remembered Stefan first coming for me, it wasn't a man in a black mask or a crazy guy shoving Three Musketeers bars at me as he tried to convince me I was his brother. I remembered an ocean, dark as a universe without stars-black with guilt, despair, rage, violence, self loathing. All I could see was his hand reaching out of the water; the rest of him was buried in a liquid Hell he couldn't escape "

― Rob Thurman , Basilisk (The Korsak Brothers #2)

13 " Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and
her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her
well-shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted. And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the
world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make-believe. The only trouble is that it's not all
make-believe. Some parts of the fairy tales are all too real, all too true. There might not be a Red Riding
Hood, but there is a Big Bad Wolf. No Snow White, but definitely an Evil Queen. No obnoxiously cute
blond tots, but a child-eating witch… yeah. Oh yeah. "

― Rob Thurman , Nightlife (Cal Leandros, #1)

14 " When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade. "

― Rob Thurman , Nightlife (Cal Leandros, #1)

15 " We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others. "

― Rob Thurman , Nightlife (Cal Leandros, #1)

16 " Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without? "

― Rob Thurman , Roadkill (Cal Leandros, #5)

17 " He tried to turn me into a buffet?” I gritted my teeth. “Before he killed me? He couldn’t kill me first and then eat me? That’s just fucking rude. "

― Rob Thurman , Blackout (Cal Leandros, #6)

18 " Niko caught my hand and slapped it lightly down on the bar. “Pistol whipping elderly women isn’t precisely our mission statement, Cal.”
I hadn’t been going to pistol-whip her. Yell at her a little more, then pick her up and toss her out into the street. Some risk of a broken hip there, but that wasn’t pistol-whipping… unless she tried to come back in. "

― Rob Thurman , Roadkill (Cal Leandros, #5)

19 " The fact that the bodies weren’t my first concern–-pissing and bodies were, in that order—-helped too. Killers have different priorities. "

― Rob Thurman , Blackout (Cal Leandros, #6)

20 " Wouldn’t you leave a light on? Knowing what I knew and not knowing anything else at all, why would I want the darkness where the monsters hide?
Because killers hide there too. "

― Rob Thurman , Blackout (Cal Leandros, #6)