Dead Leprechauns & Devil Cats Quotes

“Money is different for men who are not born with it, and I knew that Augustus had not been born with money but had had to scrape for it, and so it inspired within him a kind of madness, and every day there were born more and more like him, men willing to lose their senses to secure a dollar.”
― Grady Hendrix, Dead Leprechauns and Devil Cats: Strange Tales of the White Street Society

“It is that bad, sir,’ he said. ‘I served with Chinese Gordon and lost everything in Khartoum. My mates. My fortune. My arms and legs.’ “‘They’ll grow back,’ I said. “‘They will?’ he asked, through his tears. “‘Of course they will. I’m a doctor. You just have to give them time and...and drink more whiskey.”
― Grady Hendrix, Dead Leprechauns and Devil Cats: Strange Tales of the White Street Society

“To Amanda — It turns out that you did not weigh the same as a feather when thrown from a great height. My saddest day — yet what a victory for science.”
― Grady Hendrix, Dead Leprechauns and Devil Cats: Strange Tales of the White Street Society

“The spirit of Christmas, it seemed, had touched us all, each in different ways. Some of us were rich, some of us were dead, some of us were on a steamship to Brazil, and some of us had avoided prosecution for manslaughter.”
― Grady Hendrix, Dead Leprechauns & Devil Cats: Strange Tales of the White Street Society