Kill You Twice Quotes

“Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“Lovely chatting with you, darling, but I've got to run. Face it, you're always more content when you're chasing me than when you have me locked up. I think we're going to have a lot of fun.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“That woman was always very good at not seeing what was in front of her. In my experience, people who lie to themselves long enough don't even know when they're blind.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“We lie to each other all the time. Whatever we say, it doesn't mean anything."
"I'll believe you," she said.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“You're a fucking aberration, sweetheart.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“You should have me restrained,' she said. 'I could kill you. You never know when I might have a razor blade tucked up my sleeve.'
'Why kill me now?' Archie said. 'It would seem anticlimactic.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“She lied to me today," Archie said.
"A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“You're wrong, you know," Susan said. "She doesn't belong here. I'm against the death penalty. I don't think the state should be in the business of killing people. I think it's wrong. And it's hypocritical. Mostly, I just think it's mean. Gretchen Lowell ? She is the exception. She deserves to die. If we kill one person, one criminal in the history of the world, it should be her." Susan paused, reconsidering. "And Hitler. Her, and Hitler". Prescott had that shrink look on his face again, passive and unimpressed, and yet somehow judgmental at the same time. Susan continued. "She removed a detective's spleen without anesthesia. She stuck a wire through an old woman's eyeball and then threaded it behind her nose and out through the other eye socket and then she stuck the wire into an outlet."
Prescott raised an eyebrow. "And you're arguing that she's sane?”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“Susan was already rehearsing excuses in case she was caught: I just got my period and I was looking for a tissue to stuff in my underpants. Men didn't question menstruation stories. Ever. You could probably get into the White House if you said you needed a tampon ASAP.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“We lie to each other all the time, remember?' she said with an amused smile.
'Tell me,' Archie said, 'and I'll believe you.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“Robbins had opened Gabby up. Her charred skin was peeled back, and her ribs were removed. She was pink inside, like steak that had been burned on a high heat but remained raw in the middle.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“She'd liked Pearl. Pearl hadn't meant to Tazer Archie. Well, she meant to Tazer him, but how was she supposed to know that her then-boyfriend was going to drag Archie away, suspend him naked from meat hooks and try to hack him up with an ax?
Hadn't everyone had a bad boyfriend at some point?
Pearl had made some bonehead choices, but she had a good heart.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“No duh, Susan said. You are like a walking vault of things you don't tell people. People who have secrets should pay you to hold on to them for them. You could be like a secret bank.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“You think I'm going to let you burn in hell alone? Just don't shoot the janitor.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“He's not like his father. She reconsidered this. I mean, he's not perfect. But he's not Scarface.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“His father is hinky, she said with a sigh. And by hinky she meant a drug kingpin.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice