The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus Quotes

“Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” –Joan Collins”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“Every time I come over, you are moving things off the chairs so I can sit. There are a lot of crates here.” Donovan just smiled. “It’s a system,” he insisted. “I know where everything is…” “Yes,” Amethyst nodded gravely. “He knows it’s in one of those piles somewhere…”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“One world moved on, the next came to life around you, and before you knew it, things that had been normal and accepted were nothing more than late-night reruns and memories to be shared over a beer.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“It was time for some serious thinking, and Jasper didn’t reckon he should do that on an empty lung. Empty head was one thing; lungs needed smoke to survive – so his ol’ Pap’d said.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“The world is full of healing; you just got to know where to look.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“Who is that?” Amethyst asked. “I don’t know,” Bones said solemnly, watching the old woman barring their way and leaning on her staff, “but if she says ‘You shall not pass!’, I’m out of here.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“Why does it always feel like I’m standing on the edge of some kind of big, black pit?” “There are a lot of pits,” Donovan said. “The most interesting lives are lived walking around the rims.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“Where did you learn that?” Vein asked, still staring. “I read,” Bruno said evenly. “I talk less than the rest of you. It gives me time.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“You’re being paranoid,” Vein said. “It’s one of your better traits.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“One thing I do know, and I believe you know it too, is that what he is doing goes against the very grain of the universe. He’s taking the path of Icarus, and no matter how you mix the wax, it melts when it gets too close to the sun.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“Go with all the Gods in your pockets, and my heart in your hand,” he whispered, breathing”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“Jasper didn’t look convinced. Cletus slapped him on the back. “It’s been long enough since you went to church, Jaz,” he said. “I come to your trailer all the time,” Jasper said pointedly. “You ARE ordained.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“Jasper looked around, saw the cleared couch and the piles of books, paper, and detritus that had been cleared off of it, grinned, and dropped onto it. “Quick, Pap,” he said, “before that crap starts fighting back and smothers us.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“He glanced at his e-mail, saw the box was full of unread messages, missives, requests, and adds for cheap, Internet Viagra. Apparently, Abba Contiga Brezhnev, Contessa of some country he’d never heard of, had a few million bucks she needed laundered, and had gone straight past hello and howdy-do and on to calling him her dear.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“Well, that’s me,” Cletus said. “I’ve seen a lot of strange things. Hell, I’ve seen Jasper eat barbecue. Takes a lot to faze me.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“When things got a bit too drunk out, the Gin was famous for what Cletus liked to term “Redneck Olympics.” He’d watched them at it more than once, and he knew better than to stick around when things started to run south of sane.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“We both know men don’t come to the Dismal Swamp for head transplants on a regular basis, and, even though the Weekly World News is my Bible, I swear on Bat Boy’s honor I’ve never read of any head transplant that took. Barring”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“Seems there’s a man in the swamp off 17 that forgot you need to breathe to socialize in these parts.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“It’s Cletus. I’ve got a good one for you.” “Hey Cletus. You shoot another poacher?” “Nope. Didn’t shoot anyone,” Cletus assured her. “Yet.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“I’m not a priest,” Cletus stood up, indignant. “I follow no Pope. I am a Reverend in the Universal Life Church. We don’t perform last rites.” Jasper snorted. “Universal Life my ass. You are a Reverend in the church of send in your ten dollars and a coupon.” “Amounts to the same, in the eyes of the Lord,” Cletus replied with a wink. “Folks don’t really mind who saves them, as long as they can go on sinning until their cards are punched.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“You get yourself into more scrapes than a pat of butter,” she said.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“If my boyfriend offered me up for a voodoo ritual sacrifice, I'd have some serious questions about the future of the relationship.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“It wasn't so much the fear of Los Escorpiones as the fact he could not see them. He could not hear them. He felt them like prickles of ice walking on spider feet over his skin. He sensed them in the hairs at the nape of his neck. He tasted the fear of those surrounding him, and an answering…something…in the darkness.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“There's no such thing as coincidence – only controlled bursts of fate.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV