Redemption Song Quotes

“If the world is full of monsters, someone has to be keeping us safe. Someone has to be fighting for us out there.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“I love working with fanatics. You just wind them up, and off they go.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“According to Caitlin, he’d been on the throne since Hannibal discovered elephants, and he was so slippery he would orchestrate assassination plots against himself when he got bored, just to keep his wits sharp.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“She had personal details about my relationships that only my close friends should have known. “So you’ve got a stalker,” I said to my reflection in the rearview mirror. “And she eats people. Great.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“You see,” she said, “maybe you are stronger than me. But it doesn’t matter, and I’ll tell you why: because I’ve always been smarter than you.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“There’s no council of wizened wizards overseeing the world of magic, no hidden academies where bright-eyed and precocious youths learn the secrets of the unknown. What we do have is a collective desire, as a community, to keep anyone from fucking up our action. One of the first things any fledgling sorcerer is taught? Keep your mouth shut about magic, or someone will shut it for you, probably with a bullet or a corrective curb-stomping. Now”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“Pix?” I said. “Pretend for a second that I’m not a hacker.” “I’m a jobber in a tag-team cage match against John Cena and The Rock. My partner just got laid out cold with a folding chair, and the referee is looking the other way.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“He held out his hand. “Give it to me,” he hissed as his fingernails lengthened into claws. “If you insist,” I said. Then I shot him in the face.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“Sounds ominous,” I said. “Do you get a cool code name, too?” “No, but I have handcuffs—” “Kinky.” “—and a gun.” I shook my head. “There you go, ruining the mental image.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“Do you have the soul? Where is it now?” she asked, a little too urgently for my liking. “Stashed someplace safe,” I told her. That someplace was the trunk of my car parked out in the driveway, but I didn’t feel like sharing that much.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“The world is full of good men who make bad decisions,” I told her. “Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn’t. You just have to figure things out the best you can. Make the best choices you can. Choices you can live with.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“It’s you, Pix. You and everybody like you. Everybody who reaches out a hand when they don’t have to. Everybody who helps somebody get up on their feet, or gets in the way of a fist so somebody weaker doesn’t have to take the pain. Everybody who stands up in the face of evil and says ‘no more.’ Everybody who does what they can to make this shithole of a planet a little less miserable for everybody else. You are who’s fighting for us.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“Oh, wow, your glasses!” I heard Justine cry. “They’re amazing! You’re, like, a hipster. And hipster is totally dead as a fashion statement, which makes it ironic, which makes you totally hipster!”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“You are standing,” I told him, “between me and my chance, my only chance, to get my life back. So I want you to ask yourself a question, and I want you to look me in the eyes when you do it. Do you know my name? Because I am Daniel fucking Faust, and you should know what happens to people who stand in my way.” The guard hesitated for a moment. Then he unlocked the door and stood aside.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“So let me get this straight,” Pixie said. “Some of the bad guys are bad guys, some of the bad guys are the good guys, and there aren’t any good good guys.” “That’s right.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“What do I always tell you about good, clean, fair fights?” I grinned. “No such thing. Fair fights are for suckers. Always fight dirty.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“Sorry, kid,” I told him. There wasn’t anything else worth saying. I left him to die. I forced my feelings into a little box in the back of my mind. Guilt was a luxury for later. Right now, I couldn’t afford to think about anything but survival.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“I wasn’t superstitious about these things. Bad luck was something I gave to other people.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“Easysauce,” she said.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“Ronald Reagan once said the nine scariest words in the English language were, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“the smoke-faced men”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“The ghost of Merle Haggard kept Sophia trapped in her house for two weeks. Every time she went to the door she’d see him standing on her lawn, clutching his guitar and wagging a disapproving finger at her. She knew her medication would probably make him go away, just like she knew the real Merle Haggard was alive and well in California, but she hated how the pills made her feel. Stuffy, slow, like scratchy wool was wrapped around her brain.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“network”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“ended”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“And for the record, yes, a Taurus Judge probably WILL blow a demon’s face off at close range.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“A sharp crunching sound echoed across the cramped office. Pinfeather’s eyes went wide, his body rigid as a steel pole. He looked down. Caitlin’s hand was buried in his chest up to the wrist. A rivulet of blood guttered from his mouth as he tried to speak. Caitlin put her lips to his ear as her fingers curled around his pounding heart. “Like you said, this is Vegas,” Caitlin whispered. “And in Vegas, the house always wins.” She yanked her hand free. Pinfeather crumpled to the carpet, a look of surprise frozen on his face. She dropped his dead heart onto the ruins of his chest and went to find a bathroom where she could scrub her hands. Caitlin hummed as she strolled away from the empty church, thinking about what to buy for dinner. Daniel was coming over, and for at least one night, they could relax together in peace. She supposed things had worked out just fine.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“I could see the sorrow in her eyes as she gently brushed his hair aside and kissed his brow. Then she snapped his neck. Ben’s corpse tumbled to the floor. Emma sank to her knees beside him, mute. She brushed her fingertips along his lifeless arm. If this was an action movie, that would have been her cue to say something badass. But this wasn’t a movie. It was just a stupid dead man and a grieving widow and a gulf of pain I couldn’t imagine.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“My goal, on the other hand, was to convince you to meet me somewhere remote. Somewhere I could finish you off without fear of interruption. So I prepared a—” “I know,” I said. “The book’s a fake, and you let me steal it.” He blinked.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“The fact is, it just wasn’t meant to be. Crazy rich lady who wants to blow up the world, crazy demon asshole who wants to invade hell…I know, you had high hopes, but this relationship just wasn’t going to work out.” “I am going,” Sullivan seethed, “to kill you.” “Not if I get to him first,” Meadow said.”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song

“You were going to betray me!” Sullivan roared, slamming his fist on the table. Lauren bared her teeth. “You were going to betray me!” I jumped up onto my chair and climbed onto the dinner table, standing in the heart of the powder keg. “Ladies! Gentlemen! You’re both right! You were all about to betray each other. Congratulations and welcome to Las Vegas. If I could have the floor for a moment?”
― Craig Schaefer, Redemption Song