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Category: Richard Kadrey

This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one, and when we couldn’t find the queen, you sent us to Hell to be tortured for eternity. That was your great plan for humanity? All you gave us here was daisies and fairy tales and you acted like that was enough. How were we supposed to resist evil when you didn’t even tell us about it?

damnation, devil, evil, free-will, garden-of-eden, god, good, lucifer, religion

If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos.

bartender, jesus

Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it’s a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?

dark-humor, zombies

Don’t drink too much.””When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I’ll stop.””I’ll have to get a shorter name.””I’ll have to forget how to spell it.

The dead think they can get away with anything because you’ll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don’t let them buy you drinks. They’ll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.

Don’t talk. Kill it.”That might be the sweetest thing a woman’s ever said to me on a first date.

dating, killing

For eleven years, I’ve been worked over and abused in ways you can’t imagine by things you don’t want to know about. I’ve killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed nightmare that ever made you piss your pjs and cry for mommy in the middle of the night. I kill monsters and, if I wanted, I could say a word and burn you to powder from the inside out. I can tear any human you ever met to rages with my bare hands. Give me one good reason why I could possibly need you?She looks straight at me, not blinking. No fear in her eyes.Because you might be the Tasmanian Devil and the Angel of Death all rolled into one, but you don’t even know how to get a phone.I hate to admit it, but she has a point.

hell, monsters, phones

Love a man who’ll bleed to make a point. (Candy)

Thanks for treating me like, you know, a person through all this shit. I know that isn’t always easy. (Stark)You do have a habit of pissing on other people’s welcome mats. But, when a gentleman gives you a booty call to a massacre, it’s easy to forgive. Ciao. (Candy)

booty-call, forgiveness, massacre

It doesn’t matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don’t say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can’t get through.

power-of-words, words

As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways of thinking, always questioning their understanding of the world. Going back to old ways, old technology is forbidden. There in no past, no present, only an endless future of inadequacy

future, technology

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.