Strange Magic Quotes

“I didn’t want to throw him in any ol’ piranha tank, I wanted to throw him into a tank filled with genetically modified super-piranhas carrying tasers and bullwhips. Asshole.”
― James A. Hunter, Strange Magic

“Such was the power of the blues—it said, so you’ve had a bad day, well that’s life, fella. Now pick up your damn feet and get back to walkin’, shit, get back to dancin’.”
― James A. Hunter, Strange Magic

“. . . people—probably gunrunners and drug dealers—but they were also more than the sum of their bad deeds, and I was in no position to start casting stones.”
― James A. Hunter, Strange Magic

“Humanity as a whole is an evil bunch of bastards, but when push comes to shove, the villagers can put aside their inner devils and take up the pitchforks and torches against a common enemy.”
― James A. Hunter, Strange Magic

“Genetically modified super-piranhas carrying tasers and bullwhips, galloping on man-eating tigers.”
― James A. Hunter, Strange Magic

“There’s virtually nothing more disorienting than having someone throw on the light and make a bunch of ruckus when you’re sound asleep. I have to imagine it’s even worse if you suddenly find yourself on fire.”
― James A. Hunter, Strange Magic

“So far so good. Kind of, I guess. I mean, I’d taken a peaceful, curious creature the size of a small planet and turned it into a raging death machine … sounds kind of stupid and reckless when I put it like that.”
― James A. Hunter, Strange Magic

“I take to slummy bars and sheisty gambling halls like a proud lion to the rolling grassy plains of the savannah. Well acquainted, am I, with the various beasts of the beer-tavern. The cackling hyena pool players—scavengers, lurking in the shadows, waiting to prey upon the unwary sucker. The sports-betting meerkat folk who poke heads out of their beer mug homes only long enough to check scores, before ducking back down in a bid to avoid the larger predators. The aloof but noble baboon bartender, dispensing suds and barroom wisdom in equal portions—kind of like Rafiki from the Lion King, sans the beer thing.”
― James A. Hunter, Strange Magic

“You only get to live once, and I’ll be damned if I make my way through life subsisting solely on salads and diet smoothies. But boy, were all those ribs and”
― James A. Hunter, Strange Magic