X-Rated Bloodsuckers Quotes

“She drove off in typical L.A. fashion, foot flat on the gas and a cell phone pressed against one ear.”
― Mario Acevedo, X-Rated Bloodsuckers

“Relationships with women were difficult enough; try factoring in being undead.”
― Mario Acevedo, X-Rated Bloodsuckers

“The sun settled into the gray haze above the ocean. The day’s remaining vendors along the boardwalk sat bundled in jackets behind card tables piled with candles, tarot cards, and homemade trinkets. All of the crazies were gone except for one diehard who sat on a plastic crate and bellowed, “I need money. I gotta buy some pot.”
― Mario Acevedo, X-Rated Bloodsuckers

“A man in a business suit stepped around me, barking, “Excuse me,” and glaring, as if I was slowing him down from getting his asshole-of-the-year award. He”
― Mario Acevedo, X-Rated Bloodsuckers

“Coyote lowered the flask and munched on something. “You had another worm in there?” I asked, wondering what he chewed. He shrugged. “Worm, cockroach, don’t know.”
― Mario Acevedo, X-Rated Bloodsuckers

“Being an undead bloodsucker makes everything complicated.”
― Mario Acevedo, X-Rated Bloodsuckers

“The stakeout. The least glamorous and yet often the most valuable activity in investigations. To endure the agonizing boredom and forestall restlessness, I slowed my metabolism into near rigor mortis until I was nothing more than a pair of eyeballs fixed”
― Mario Acevedo, X-Rated Bloodsuckers

“A woman stood by the first desk, a battered piece of furniture that looked donated from a thrift store. A paper taped to the desk had the words OPERATIONAL MANAGER marked through and replaced with, La Reña de Todo. The Queen of Everything.”
― Mario Acevedo, X-Rated Bloodsuckers

“The front hall doubled as an art gallery. The exhibition was a series of modern interpretations of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The Virgin as seamstress. The Virgin wearing boxing gloves. The Virgin working the drive-thru window at McDonald’s.”
― Mario Acevedo, X-Rated Bloodsuckers

“I logged on to an antiquarian booksellers Web site, The Sagging Bookshelf, and requested a first-edition copy of the 1940s classic Dental Care and Sexual Hygiene for Post-Adolescent Women.”
― Mario Acevedo, X-Rated Bloodsuckers