Life and Then Love Quotes

“Poor dearest. I suppose I better be a useful husband and figure out how to cheer you up. Why did the chicken cross the road?” he asked.

“Because anything it wanted was on the other side of a dangerous pathway that could kill it at any time?” asked Lisette.

“Errm, no. I see the existential worries of chickens are not going to be enough to distract you.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Are we done here?” Thomas asked the reporter.

“Yes. It looks like you two have things you want to be doing. Can humans and shades… you know?” the reporter asked.

“Yes,” said Lisette. “And it’s amazing.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Thomas was the person who really brought out the best in her. And he cared about her for her own sake. It was her uniqueness that Thomas loved. That was exactly how she felt about him. There was only one Thomas. And he was the one she wanted to be with.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Oh, god. I am in love with a ghost. I’m in love with a ghost that I told I didn’t love, and he left, and now he hates me. And I still have an excess human boyfriend I may or may not be in love with.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Yes!” he shouted. “Spank it!”

She complied. She had gotten used to the request. When you’d met angels and vampires it didn’t seem like that big of a deal to spank your boyfriend in bed.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Death isn’t about endings, or beginnings, it’s about taking the next step on a long road to finding out what humanity really means. It’s part of the journey we all take, and it isn’t the worst thing that ever happens to you. Sometimes it’s even the best. This is the story of someone for whom it was. This is a love letter to the event most people fear and dread. This is the story of death done right, of love and redemption and living after your life force has faded away. This is the story of what it means to feel alive even when you technically aren’t.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“She considered telling him to speak less, but she thought it would be better to ease him into that preference. Wait until he was comfortable and willing to do anything for her, and then she could tell him to shut the f*** up during the f*** times. She wanted his body doing the talking, not his mouth.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“He may not have his love, but his protagonist did. And the novel needed to wax poetic about love. That had to be the redemption for this sad and depressed man who had so little in his life. He had to die and find love to truly be alive. Just like Thomas had.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“The more you write, the more you find your voice. I think with my earlier stuff, when I was dabbling, it definitely wasn’t there. I was writing like other people I admired. It wasn’t until I had a story I had to tell that I could step into my own words. And maybe that’s what it’ll take for you. Maybe you just haven’t had to tell those stories in your head. But the more practice on the stories you’d like to tell, the closer you get to the one you need.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“We both know a relationship between you and I could never go anywhere. Because we could literally never go anywhere.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Lisette felt like screaming. She put on her clothes and went back to her office and pulled up a blank Word document. Then she started writing about how it felt when your live-in ghost decided your sex life wasn’t fulfilling enough.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Are you going to count me on the census form?”

“Sure. Ghost squatter, quantity of one. Sex male, race Caucasian, age dead. That’ll really help with the demographics.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Everyone at work commented on how happy Lisette seemed. She wanted to say, ‘ghostf***ing will do that to you.’ But that seemed a little crazy.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Thomas reminded himself that Lisette just wanted a friend with benefits. She’d made it clear she wasn’t looking for a relationship. And why should she? He wasn’t a human anymore. He was a half-thing that couldn’t go out places with her, or meet her friends, or spend holidays with her. He was a dead end relationship, because he was just plain dead.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“I would hear about other books that were popular, and they just seemed like they made people depressed. Why would I pay to get depressed? I was already depressed for free. I wanted to read things that made me laugh and forget about the world for a few hours.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Jake Hatcher was a man worth stopping and looking at. He was one of those blonde haired, blue eyed, All American boys that you couldn’t help but want to take home and f*** senseless. He saw her and smiled, and the smile was worth an extra orgasm.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“It all seemed so incredibly unlikely. Girl buys house. Girl meets boy. Boy haunts house. Girl doesn’t know what the f*** to do.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Lisette realized she had already let several seconds pass, so she wasn’t going to scream. She wasn’t sure what she was going to do, because there was a ghost in the middle of her living room. Somehow nothing in her life had prepared her for this moment.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love