When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not. Richard Kadrey More Quotes by Richard Kadrey More Quotes From Richard Kadrey Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. Richard Kadrey tearsmissing-youmemories Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead. Richard Kadrey kniveskindnessenemy 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 queenssexthinking 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 griefrevengemen He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see. Richard Kadrey skinsfear Did I hurt your feelings again? Sorry. When this is all over I'll send some flowers to your inner child. Richard Kadrey hurtsorrychildren 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 glassestoo-muchnames 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 wickedclotheskids 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 burningrocksland Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. Richard Kadrey contradictionableinsanity I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me. Richard Kadrey arenahellfighting 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 givinglooksworld 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 dragonsfightinggames 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 tattoowarthinking 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 sorryplaythinking No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard. Richard Kadrey cokewondermath If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos. Richard Kadrey bartenderhalfjesus 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 animalboysthinking 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 technologypastthinking 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 wallworldthinking
