The Perdition Score Quotes

“He hands me a cup full of the black stuff. I hold it up and say, “To freaks everywhere.” Vidocq holds up his mug. “May you fly, walk, swim, or crawl for all eternity under the noses of our betters.”
― Richard Kadrey, The Perdition Score

“Merry-go-rounds are a shared lie of childhood. Cruelty masked as fun. Tedium cloaked as adventure. A great spinning vessel of torment getting the tykes ready for the damnation most of them will richly deserve, all because their minds were permanently twisted by this parade of pony horrors.”
― Richard Kadrey, The Perdition Score

“What I do know is that a famous dead guy once said, “Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed-wire handle.”
― Richard Kadrey, The Perdition Score

“CANDY AND ALESSA are practicing in the storeroom. One of them is burning through “Miserlou” and the other sounds like she’s falling down the stairs with a boxful of cats. But she keeps playing. Good for her.”
― Richard Kadrey, The Perdition Score

“Soft cheese is a reminder that all cheese is just milk that crawled into a ditch to die, then some lunatic came along, spread the corpse on a saltine, and invented hors d’oeuvres.”
― Richard Kadrey, The Perdition Score

“I taste my espresso. It’s good. Dammit. How am I supposed to hate people if they make good coffee?”
― Richard Kadrey, The Perdition Score

“Home late. Be naked.”
― Richard Kadrey, The Perdition Score