Killing Pretty Quotes

“I’m not a huge fan of other people’s logic.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

“Maybe home isn’t the place you love, just the place you know best.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

“I once considered learning to love iced coffee, but then I remembered I’d have to kill myself, so I gave up the idea.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

“And his first name. Jeffrey spelled Geoffrey. Never trust a Geoffrey. Either they’re pretentious pricks or bitter that the family spelled their name funny.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

“I hate this place. You can’t get a cup of coffee unless it has a backstory and a pedigree so the café can charge you as much for the cup as a normal human pays for dinner. Women drive by in cute little sports cars with more power under the hood than a Saturn V, but the speedometer will never top twenty because then they might not be seen and admired. Men window-shop in silk jackets made by indentured servants in countries they’ve never heard of while their sons all imagine they’re Tupac because they bought their thousand-dollar designer jeans a couple of sizes too big.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

“This might be the end of the world as we know it, but it’s still show biz.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

“Once angels get an idea in their head, there’s no arguing with them. Like cops and people who listen to reggae.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

“Being human never stops hurting.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

“Goddamn nature. All it wants to do is hitch a ride, kill you, or sting you. Sometimes all at once.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

“give Death a look. “You had to wait till now to bring this up. You just took a massive shit all over our feel-good moment.” “I know,” says Death. “I’m somewhat famous for that.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

“LOS ANGELES IS a busted jukebox in a forgotten bar at the ass end of the high desert. The city only exists between the pops, skips, and scratches of the old 45s.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

“You’re goddamn paranoid. You should see someone about that.” “I tried, but she kept writing things down. It made me more paranoid.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

“The 405 is one breakdown away from turning into the Donner Party.”
― Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty