Visions Quotes

“Gabriel discourages emotional attachments the way most of us discourage door-to-door salesmen. They're inconvenient, intrusive, and liable to end up saddling you with something you never wanted in the first place, at a cost far higher than you wish to pay.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“There is no freedom from the prison of the mind”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“We are imprisoned by the truth we dare not see. We are imprisoned by the questions we dare not ask.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Archangel or hound from hell . . . with Gabriel, it depends on the day.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Sex, a switchblade, and motorcycle lessons. You really are making sure my night ends on a high note.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Between Ricky’s charm and persuasion and Gabriel’s lock picking and sleight of hand, if I took enough lessons, I could become a first-rate private eye. Or a master criminal.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Then you should take it for a spin. Cars like that shouldn’t be left in storage. It causes mechanical issues. With brakes and tires and engines and such.”
My smile returned. “You have no idea what you’re talking about, do you?”
“Not a word.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“He emphasized murderous as if clarifying that he’d certainly believed me capable of making enemies, just not to that degree. I could have taken offense at that, but in Gabriel’s world, if you aren’t making the occasional enemy, you aren’t trying hard enough.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Note to clients, quicklime is a preservative, not a corrosive.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn't find anyone new? He'll come slinking back. By then, if you're smart, you'll have decided you're better without him.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Walshes had been taking advantage of gullibility and stupidity ever since they conned their fellow cavemen out of their spears. Highwaymen, pirates, swindlers, and card sharks . . . their family history was both colorful and dark.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“There is no freedom from the prison of the mind.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Switchblade," I said. "Nice. I could use one of those."
"That's not enough?" He whispered, pointing at my gun.
"It does the job, if the job us to kill. I need a backup that's not always so lethal."
"You could try getting yourself into fewer situations where you need a weapon.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“My foggy brain slid away and—
And I was still dressed in only my bra and panties.
Well, at least it’s a nice set of bra and panties.
Yep, these were the thoughts going through my brain as I looked at a photo of a decapitated head on my bed.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Yeah, I know. These days, weird is my life. I should get that on a T-shirt.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Religion exists to instill false security and blind faith,”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“I’d said to myself once that Gabriel preferred a life where he felt as little responsibility for others as possible. That was true. But even more true is the fact that he preferred a life where others felt no responsibility for him.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Yours is more than business. Your opinion of him - and your continuing relationship with him - matters. My nephew is not accustomed to that, and he's struggling with it.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“I even pulled out the can of cat treats. Yes, I’d bought him treats. Give it another month and I’d be collecting his shed whiskers and claws like a proud momma preserving her baby’s first haircut and lost teeth.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“You have no idea what a fairy circle is, do you? Which is shocking for a changeling child.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“I could mentally lift the vision wholesale and stick it into the already overflowing “crazy shit I’ll deal with later” box in my brain.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“He turned, a stray slip of moonlight illuminating a sliver of his face, blue eyes glowing almost preternaturally in the darkness.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Everyone had heard what happened and they were all so pleased, so very pleased. Which seems a little odd, but in Cainsville “a little odd” was the norm.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“I think you intentionally overreacted. Like killing a fly with a baseball bat, just to make sure it never bothers you again.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“There’d been months when hunger seemed to be the driving force in his life.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“There wasn’t much there—just Macy’s school texts, various biology and anatomy and nursing tomes. Fascinating stuff, I’m sure. Especially the one on thanatochemistry, whatever the hell that was.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“Cwn Annwn.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“He would watch his word choice and his diction, and not be what they expected.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“So he had the Coke and the stew and the money and the weapons. And it all added up to one thing: fear. It didn’t matter how old he was or how big he’d grown or how successful he’d become. He was safely up here, above the city, behind locks and a security system, and there were still nights when he bolted awake, heart pounding so hard he could barely breathe.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“I don't think angels are supposed to grant wishes.

They should. It would make them much more interesting.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions