Stone Cold Quotes

“I glanced up at the trees too.
Dead. Every one of them gray and white, needles rusted, leaves shriveled at the tips of branches. All the life sucked out of them. Not just the trees. All the plants, ferns, grasses and brush were shriveled, brown, barren.
As if a month of winter had set down right here in my driveway and gone on a killing spree.
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"Love what you've done with the landscape," Cody said. "You could open your own business, you know."
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"The hell you talking about, Miller?" I asked Cody.
"Yard care. You're poison and weed whacker all in one. You can call it Death to All Shrubbery.”
― Devon Monk, Stone Cold

“My voice felt cold, lovely, and alien as crystal in my throat. "Why should I help you anywhere?"
Though he was slumped against the wall now, he managed to look up at me. His catlike pupils were so dilated they looked almost human.
"Well... I did save your life." Then he doubled up in pain and slid to the floor.
As long as I could remember, the anger had writhed and clawed inside me, and no matter how much it hurt, I had choked it down. Now at last I hated someone who deserved hatred, and it felt like I was Zeus's thunder, like I was the storms of Poseidon upon the sea. I was shaking with fury, and I had never felt so glad.
"You killed my mother. You enslaved my world. And as you pointed out, I will live here as your captive till I die. Tell me, my darling lord, why should I thank you for my life?"
He was gasping and shuddering with pain, and he didn't seem to be seeing me anymore as he whispered, "Please."
I knelt over him and smiled down into his face. My body was wrapped in ice; my voice came from somewhere very far away.
"Do you think you are safe with me?"
Then I stood and walked away, leaving him all alone in the dark.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty