Kill City Blues Quotes

“A gun is like love. The universal language.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill City Blues

“Death smiles at us all and all a man can do is smile back.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill City Blues

“You can take the boy out of the Devil but not the Devil out of the boy”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill City Blues

“I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill City Blues

“Imagine all of L.A. filled with windup men wandering empty-headed and waiting for orders and directions and purpose. That’s L.A. in a nutshell. A city of driven creatures, but no one is a hundred percent sure what they’re driven toward. Wealth. Fame. Power. Love. Revenge. These are all the obvious end points for the citizens of a spectral city, but none of them quite encompass a final goal. That’s more fragile. Something that slips away like smoke the moment it’s in your hands. It’s a moonshine cocktail of desperation and desire, the certainty that you can find perfection through sheer willpower and the cold terror that if you do reach the goal it will have twisted into something new. A new fevered need born of the search for this one. Searching for the next goal will breed another. And on and on. L.A. and Kill City full of Pinocchios with whirring gears for brains, all wanting to be real boys but sunk in the certainty that they’ll never become anything because they’re nothing. They came from nothing and are headed for a further and harder nothing.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill City Blues

“How do you explain to someone that you understand their fear, then convince them that it’s going to be all right? In my experience, the more you talk about what scares them, the worse it gets. There’s not much to do but ride out the fear with them and try to keep them away from liquor and razor blades.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill City Blues

“The only way I can attract more attention is if I was towing a Spanish galleon full of half-naked cheerleaders with flare guns.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill City Blues

“It’s more than coping. It’s adaptation. You go into the dark one species and mutate to fit your surroundings. Grow better eyes and ears. Get used to the feel of the air so you can tell when something is coming at you. After a while you’re so suited to the environment you’re a whole new species.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill City Blues