Dead Pig Collector Quotes

“Really?” Mister Sun said. “You killed a man with the same knife you use to make brunch, and you’re suddenly squeamish about a hammer.”
― Warren Ellis, Dead Pig Collector

“Mister Sun wondered if he really believed it was true that the heart is just a pump.”
― Warren Ellis, Dead Pig Collector

“Now,” he said, snapping the black blade open, “we have destroyed the teeth, crushed the face, and obliterated the fingerprints. And we have not been caught. We can therefore proceed with the first stage of carcass disposal. Fluid drainage.”
Amanda placed her hands together so quickly that they almost clapped. “Ooh,” she said.”
― Warren Ellis, Dead Pig Collector

“The joy of her smiles and laughs seemed, to Mister Sun, to be in her genuine surprise at their arrival, as if strong emotions traveled some miles to get here and showed up without warning.”
― Warren Ellis, Dead Pig Collector

“I have met people who insist that humans taste like veal. And one woman from Canada who will swear up and down that people, like most other things, taste a bit like chicken. But she was crazy. And also Canadian.”
― Warren Ellis, Dead Pig Collector

“He wasn’t pleased with himself for appraising the girl in the tank. He thought of her as half-pretty, the sort of girl one would find modeling for art classes in dire community colleges. Putting her cheap panties and her ex-boyfriend’s shirt back on to wander around the easels afterward and wondering how grotesque she must really be, to have summoned up the deformities whacked down in merciless charcoal strikes.”
― Warren Ellis, Dead Pig Collector