The Specimen Quotes

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” - Edgar Allen Poe”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“perpetual diet of coffee and cigarettes.”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Death is the only god who comes when you call” – Roger Zelazny”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Rider/Host relationship is not always one-sided. In fact, many benefits are extended to the Host as well. It can survive up to double the life expectancy of a normal human (between 150 and 200 years), depending on a number of”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Rider’s ability to influence people and creatures around them increases as its pheromones become”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“all Rider cells have a triple helix and eight nucleobases in their analogue of DNA. Even”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“could smell the gun oil and the beer on his father’s breath.”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Option #1, the guy had raped and killed Crystal and he was going to do the same to him and”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“A husband? A psychopathic stalker? Frank’s mind whirled with images of her being raped in the parking lot by some Neanderthal with a baseball bat while he lay bleeding and unconscious on the gravel next to her. ”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“some unknown attacker on a”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“deep shit before,”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Macavity," purred”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“many pieces of them need to be cut out”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Scott Ritchie already felt like he was going to puke.  It”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Perhaps he needed the pain as penance for his mortal sins.”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Might as well go out on my own terms, he thought.”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Isolation is a gradual form of torture.”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.” - H. Rap Brown”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” - Carl Sagan”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“I’m embarrassed to admit that I giggled slightly. The resemblance of his neck to a Pez dispenser was uncanny.”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.” - Baltasar Gracian”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Revenge is solely about passion. Rage. Fury. Vengeance, on the other hand, is about retribution for a crime done against oneself.”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“I think that there’s a hidden darkness inside all of us.” - Matthew Fox”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“science is made up of mistakes… that lead little by little to the truth.” ”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.”  - Janeane Garofalo”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Life is a hideous thing.” – H. P. Lovecraft”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“As far as he could see, bare skeletal branches clawed at the sky in supplication as if pleading their gods for forgiveness for their sins. He grunted softly. Don’t hold your breath.”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“There is a saying that when someone is struck down without warning that he "didn't know what hit him." It's a bit of a copout, providing the excuse that what happened wasn't the individual's fault at all. That it couldn't have been avoided and no one is to blame.

Frankly, that's just a bunch of hokey horseshit.”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen

“the creature had learned much. It had learned to survive in the wild and among humanity. It had learned camouflage and stealth and deception. It had learned to identify danger and to protect itself against attackers. Through its feline and rodent thralls, the creature had even learned empathy and a sense of belonging. However, it had never found a name that it considered worthy.”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror