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Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11) QUOTES

Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11) QUOTES

1 " Whoever said Hell is other people was wrong. Hell is other people in your house. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

2 " You can’t kill everything bad and you can’t save everyone good.” “I’m not sure who the good ones are anymore.” “Yes you are. Because you’re one. It’s just sometimes hard to admit to oneself.” “Fuck. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

3 " I want to say that I’m not doing this because you tried to kill me. I want to be bigger and better than that. But I’m not. I’m doing this because you tried to kill me. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

4 " I got my ass kicked by some third-rate spooks and now my nice kitchen looks like a drunk brontosaurus tried to fuck the dishwasher. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

5 " Lions or tigers. They must be off somewhere waiting for the right moment to pounce. I like cats and don’t want to hurt one, but I will beat a lion to death with a shark if it tries to take a bite out of me. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

6 " He says, “Look into your heart, Stark,” and hangs up. I look into my heart and all I can see is bourbon and me punching Samael in the balls. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

7 " I close my eyes. “I keep coming back to this one thought: that I know everything about monsters and nothing about people. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

8 " Your image of yourself is one of a beast. A benevolent one, but a beast nonetheless. As much as this might pain you, it is also easy and familiar. It allows you to do away with deeper emotions. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

9 " Perfect. Another B-movie dream sequence to start the day. Why can’t I ever win in these things? Instead, it’s always some Jacob’s Ladder outtake, and I want to talk to the director because the script needs a rewrite. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

10 " But hanging around with a bunch of incorporeal fuckups sounds downright depressing, and I don’t need more of that right now. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

11 " Do you even know what death is, Tom?” I say. “It’s dumb, and it’s loud, and it smells bad; you’re in Hell and you want to die to get away from it all, but you’re already dead and there’s nowhere to go. And what’s worse is you know you’re there because you deserve it, because you’re such a fucking waste of skin and gristle. So no, I don’t want to die. It’s no fun and there’s too many people like you there. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

12 " I ride the Hog up winding roads into the hinterlands of Benedict Canyon to a Gothic-style mansion right out of a thirties Universal horror movie. Dr. Frankenstein’s summer home, or where a friendly neighbor chains up Lyle Talbot during the full moon. Even the name Lisa Thivierge is living under—Janet Lawton—is a gag: the name of the ingenue in the old Ed Wood movie Bride of the Monster. I like Thivierge already. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

13 " I think for a minute, tugging at a memory. Then, trying to act like a normal person chatting with another normal person, I blurt, “It reminds me of manticore tail.” He blinks once. “Manticore?” “You know. Those big fuckers that graze along the Styx. Human head. Lion body. Scorpion’s tail? Hard to kill, but they’re good eating.” He smiles at me the way you smile at a rabid dog, hoping it will bite the guy across the room and not you. His eyes move around in their sockets, trying to spot the security guard. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

14 " The look she gives me isn’t quite a sneer. It’s more like she opened a garbage can and found a dead skunk inside. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

15 " Maggie smiles at that and says, “Please don’t upset her. She’s fragile.” “I’ll be like cotton-candy kisses. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

16 " Abbot’s place looks like a shack fucked an outhouse and they had an ugly baby. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

17 " Learning is miserable. People are awful. Worrying about them is the worst. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

18 " Yeah, but these are crazy pills. Supposed to keep me from running amok or something.” “How are they working out?” “Great. I just saunter amok these days. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

19 " Relax. You think you’re the only pill popper around here? I get migraines and have a knee that should belong to an eighty-year-old lady.” “Yeah, but these are crazy pills. Supposed to keep me from running amok or something.” “How are they working out?” “Great. I just saunter amok these days.” She checks the "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

20 " As far as assholes go, you’re not the biggest one I ever met.” “That I’ll take as a compliment. "

― Richard Kadrey , Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)