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Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2) QUOTES

Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2) QUOTES

1 " He was wearing a gleaming cream-coloured linen suit, and a Panama hat. The weirdest thing about this was that he was not the most outlandish-looking person in the room by a long way. Not that Little Miss Dresses-Like-Bogart over here has a right to complain "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

2 " It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down within their first year "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

3 " Nim handed me a mug of tea. I took a sip and it was just how I like it, strong and sweet. If you added psychotic and emotionally unavailable to that, it would also cover my taste in women. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

4 " Miss Kane, I have been worried.

Sorry, I've been in a faery closet and a werewolf dungeon.

Business or pleasure?

Business. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

5 " Shit. This whole clusterfuck just got way clusterier and fuckier. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

6 " Look," I growled. "You fuck with me, and I'll fuck with you right back, and I fuck harder than you think."

Okay, that had sounded better in my head. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

7 " Bitter experience has taught me that you don't engage with intellectually superior wankers who make long speeches about moral relativism. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

8 " I don’t have many friends, but I think you’re one of them. And friends don’t send friends to get their souls sucked out. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

9 " Note to self: never cockblock demons or werewolves. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

10 " Look,” I growled. “You fuck with me, and I’ll fuck with you right back, and I fuck harder than you think. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

11 " Was it wrong that I kind of wanted to do her right there? Okay, Kate. Be professional about this. Also you have a girlfriend. A girlfriend who can juggle cars. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

12 " The smart thing to do was quit while I was ahead, but I wasn't really ahead and I've never been a quitter "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

13 " Basically, Elise, this is one of those cases. It's like when you bend down to pick a bit of hair out the plughole, and it yanks up more hair after it, and so you keep pulling, and you start thinking 'Shit, how much of this stuff is there?' And eventually your whole drain is clogged, and you've spent sixty quid on sink and plughole unblocker, and all you've got to show for it is twenty handfuls of goopy crap."

Elise tilted her head slightly. "I fear that analogy may have run away with you. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

14 " The Dream is the city, and if we find it's heart in the Dream, then we find it's heart in the world. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

15 " I fended them off as best I could while trying to shield my eyes but, tragically, I'd left my flamethrower in my other suit. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

16 " He did his thing, and I did mine. Mine involved standing there with a sword in a bin liner waiting for something to try and kill us. Nothing did. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

17 " You smell of shadows and dreams. And dead things. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

18 " Who the fuck keeps worms in cans?"
"Fishermen? "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

19 " Clearly when you’re immortal, life is no longer too short to stuff a mushroom. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

20 " You're late," said Death. "Something came up. "

― Alexis Hall , Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)