Sean Korzdorfer > Sean's Quotes

“Goodness,” Miss Gard said, her voice quiet and rough, her face pale. “You’d think you never saw anyone disemboweled before.”
― Anonymous

“I don’t do hats.” “Poo,” Lea said. “Arianna still hates the Europeans with a vengeance, you know. It was why she took a conquistador husband.”
― Anonymous

“Wow,” Amos said over the comm. “Three hits. Small projectiles, probably PDC rounds. Managed to go right through us without hitting anything that mattered.” “It went through my room,” the scientist, Prax, said. “Bet that woke you up,” Amos said, his voice a grin. “I soiled myself,” Prax replied without a hint of humor.”
― Anonymous

“Right now devil’s advocate is just another name for asshole.”
― Anonymous

“Chief security officer on an OPA ship was a half-assed kind of position, one part cop, one part efficiency expert, and pretty much all den mother to a crew of a thousand people with their own agendas and petty power struggles and opinions on how he should be doing his job better.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

“Null g always made him think of drowned people.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate

“When what came next didn’t matter, anybody could do anything. Nothing had consequences.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate

“But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you’re supposed to do the rituals, you do them.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Seemed like a fact of the universe that the closer you got to anything, the worse it looked. Take the most beautiful person in the solar system, zoom in on them at the right magnification and they were an apocalyptic cratered landscape crawling with horrors.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“Computers, it seemed, could be programmed to do almost anything but sense when someone was up to no good.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“The pleasantries were just ritual, but ritual was important. In Amos’ experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be. The loud, blustering ones were trying to get the other guy to back down. They wanted to stay out of a fight. The quiet ones were figuring out how to win it.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“In her prison gown, she looked like a ghost. Something already dead that hadn’t stopped moving yet. Which, he figured, might be accurate.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“Fear is like curling up under a warm blanket for some people, especially the rich.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“But these days, I’m working on the theory that killing everyone I don’t like might be counterproductive.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.”
― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

“She kisses me on the cheek and runs back into Donut Universe. People in line glare at me, wondering why I rate special treatment. I saved your lives, assholes. Let me have a fucking donut. C”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“I come from a long line of tall-tale talkers. Our family crest is bullets over crossed fingers and underneath it says, ‘Bullshit Über Alles.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“Love a man who'll bleed to make a point. (Candy)”
― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. Someday the right one will catch you in between the eyes and you’ll never see it coming.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“Thank God for whiskey or the world would be so full of secrets the weight would spin us into the sun.”
― Richard Kadrey, Devil Said Bang

“If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.”
― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

“You have to burn beliefs when they become convenient lies solely for the purpose of gaining and holding power.”
― Richard Kadrey, Devil Said Bang

“As sweet as it feels, I can't lie here forever curled up in a big ball of fuck-the-world.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“Calm down. Deep breaths. Go to your happy place. Oh, wait. I don’t have one.”
― Richard Kadrey, Aloha from Hell

“They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“That's for me, isn't it? I'm going to Hell."
"Don't feel so bad. It beats Fresno.”
― Richard Kadrey, The Getaway God

“I mean, there’s doomed. There’s screwed. And there’s monsoons-in-Hell fucked. And we’re at fucked o’clock.”
― Richard Kadrey, The Getaway God

“The things we do to stay alive for another year. Another day. Another hour. The deals we make with the universe and ourselves. You start to feel dirty.”
― Richard Kadrey, The Getaway God