Richard Kadrey Professions : Novelist Born : August 27, 1957 Browse All Authors Top 45 quotes by Richard Kadrey Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. Richard Kadrey tears missing-you memories Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead. Richard Kadrey knives kindness enemy 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? Richard Kadrey queens sex thinking Revenge is never what you think it's going to be. There's no pleasure and glory, and when it's done your grief remains. Once a man does the things you're talking about, he will never be the same, and he can never go back to who he was before. Worst of all, no matter how many enemies you kill, you are never satisfied. There is always one more who deserves it. When it becomes too easy to kill, it never ends. Richard Kadrey grief revenge men He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see. Richard Kadrey skins fear Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child. Richard Kadrey hurt sorry children 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. Richard Kadrey glasses too-much names If Donald Trump and the Wicked Witch of the West had a kid, it would be Jayne-Anne. She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes but underneath the Verace, she's Godzilla with tits. Richard Kadrey wicked clothes kids When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff. Richard Kadrey burning rocks land Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. Richard Kadrey contradiction able insanity I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me. Richard Kadrey arena hell fighting I seldom feel trapped by my world. Setting up rules and restrictions is part of the process. It gives your world shape. I always look at these things like haiku: you have to work within certain parameters, but within them, you’re completely free. Richard Kadrey giving looks world I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history. Richard Kadrey dragons fighting games Besides, do you think you would have come if I’d just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said, ‘Hello, I’m the Prince of Darkness. Think you could help me out with a little war next Tuesday, say, sixish? Richard Kadrey tattoo war thinking 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. Richard Kadrey sorry play thinking No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard. Richard Kadrey coke wonder math If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos. Richard Kadrey bartender half jesus I'd like to think they're staring at me because of my white-hot animal magnetism, but I'm not Elvis. I'm Lobster Boy, hear me roar. Richard Kadrey animal boys thinking 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 Richard Kadrey technology past thinking 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. Richard Kadrey wall world thinking Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
