Adam Pepper > Quotes

“We know you didn’t make it as a cop. We know you have a small gambling problem and a big drinking problem.”
“Actually, it’s vice versa, Mr. Greenwal. But the good news is I don’t smoke. My mother smokes. Now that is a filthy habit.”
― Adam Pepper, Symphony of Blood: A Hank Mondale Supernatural Case

“partially digested. Like someone ate them from the inside out.”
The room went silent for a minute, then I said, “That is creepy.”
“I’ll say,” Vic said with a nod.
“Maybe some kind of animal ate the body parts, after they were dead,” I suggested.
“Yeah, sure, I’d say it was a gerbil but it’s the wrong hole,” Tate said.”
― Adam Pepper, Symphony of Blood: A Hank Mondale Supernatural Case

“Every man needs certain delusions to survive. Hope itself is merely an imaginary oasis created by a desperate soul buried to the neck in the sun-baked sand and then perpetuated by a multitude of misled followers under the guise of optimism.”
― Adam Pepper, Buried a Man I Hated There

“I don’t consider myself strictly a horror author, but everything I do has a dark and cynical slant. That’s the worldview I bring to my fiction. I’ve always been attracted to bleak and gritty plots filled with disenchanted and alienated characters. I’m a fan of the underdog, of the underestimated and underappreciated. That’s just me.”
― Adam Pepper

“A man has certain expectations for his life. These expectations become more than potential hopes and dreams. They become our essence. Our identity. These expectations consume us. They make us what we are … and what we're not.”
― Adam Pepper, Buried a Man I Hated There

“It was truly a once in a lifetime moment. My father was proud of me. Visibly, noticeably proud”
― Adam Pepper, Skin Games