Dead Men's Boots Quotes

“I'll be fine ' Pen told me a little curtly. 'Where are you going anyway '
'The United States. Alabama.'
'Looking for a change of scene '
'Looking for a dead woman.'
'Get Jenna-Jane Mulbridge to come down here and I'll make you one.”
― Mike Carey, Dead Men's Boots

“So what I’m getting at is this. Okay, maybe it’s cold in the grave. Maybe you come out of the light and you think, Fuck your mother, this is bad. This is worse than anything I would have guessed. But the trick is to clench your teeth, get a running start and dive.

When I hit that other country, from whose bourne no traveller back-pedals, I’m going to be moving fast. I’m gambling that the first ten seconds or so will be the worst.”
― Mike Carey (Author), Dead Men's Boots

“I cut him a small amount of slack, because it's generally easier to lead a horse to water than to hold it under for the time it takes to drown it.”
― Mike Carey, Dead Men's Boots

“atavistic”
― Mike Carey, Dead Men's Boots

“The trip here had been rough going—Juliet drove with a focused aggression that made most road-rage incidents seem like brief, contemplative interludes, and she punished the sleek, overpowered sports car as though it had done her some terrible harm—but it didn’t seem to have dented her appetite at all.”
― Mike Carey, Dead Men's Boots