Undeath and Taxes Quotes

“I don’t know that I believe in beauty sleep, but if you don’t leave me be, you’re going to see some ugly-awake.”
― Drew Hayes, Undeath and Taxes

“Undead or alive, human or parahuman, everyone is capable of taking steps forward. Ours might have been moving at a lurching, unwieldy pace, but we were taking them all the same. It was irrelevant if we might have been a bit slower than more socially adjusted people. We were taking our steps together, and that was all that really mattered.”
― Drew Hayes, Undeath & Taxes

“Instinct was well and good in the right situations, but I refused to let it dictate how I treated or reacted to the people around me. What they were was not the same as who they were, and I knew that better than anyone.”
― Drew Hayes, Undeath & Taxes

“folly could intervene where courage dared not tread.”
― Drew Hayes, Undeath & Taxes: Fred the Vampire Accountant #2

“The people out there were in costume. They’d come from the outer world, where they had to blend in with regular people. Only in here, in the safety of a space specifically set aside for them, could they cast aside their false faces and live as they truly were.”
― Drew Hayes, Undeath & Taxes

“Forgive the egotism, but do we not all, on occasion, like to believe we have it in us to be better versions of ourselves? That if the moment were to call on us, we could respond with previously unseen strength and courage?”
― Drew Hayes, Undeath & Taxes

“Albert had never shown any interest in alcohol. I think he was happy enough with his brain chemistry as it was.”
― Drew Hayes, Undeath & Taxes

“If you want the biggest fish in the pond, you have to be willing to wade out and get your feet muddy.”
― Drew Hayes, Undeath & Taxes

“Welcome to ‘hurry up and wait,’ the basis for every form of combat since the first caveman realized he could stake out a watering hole,”
― Drew Hayes, Undeath & Taxes

“I dug through my small satchel (a gift from Amy that held more space inside than outside) and pulled out a deck of cards.”
― Drew Hayes, Undeath and Taxes

“I prefer to refer to them as alternate means of revenue”
― Drew Hayes, Undeath and Taxes