A Dead and Stormy Night Quotes

“You should embrace the chaos, Mina. It's okay to not know what you want.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“What about Grimalkin?” I asked, faintly. “She’s just a cat,” Heathcliff said. “We’re almost certain,” Morrie added. “Meow,” Grimalkin confirmed, stretching out across Heathcliff’s lap.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“A social influencer. It’s when companies pay you money to take selfies of yourself with their products and post them on the internet. It’s like being a corporate whore, except the pay is worse.” Heathcliff shot Morrie a look. “And you claim I’m missing out on life by not using the internet.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“I stormed across the moors until the drink purged the rage from my bones, and I passed out in a puddle. I woke up on the floor in front of the Classic Literature section. Mr. Simson collected me and gave me some magical elixir to sober me up⁠—” “Gatorade,” Morrie supplied. “I keep telling you it’s not magical. You can buy it at the market for two quid.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“We don’t know how we got here or why, but we’re definitely not supposed to exist in your world.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“Heathcliff, open up, or someone else is getting stabbed today.” Distasteful, yes, but it made the gossips step back.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“Not in the slightest. So how much do I have to pay you to plant evidence to make me look innocent?” Her mouth faltered. “Kidding. I’m kidding. Please, ignore what I just said. I’m a little freaked out.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“A hand stuck out at an angle, clutching a bloodied Birkin bag. Two pale legs jutted out from the hem of a pink dress covered with a pattern of revolvers. Not a pile of clothing. A body. A body wearing a very familiar Marcus Ribald dress. Ashley lay face down on the brown shop carpet. A knife stuck out of her back, a trickle of blood dribbling across her bright-pink dress and across the rug. Someone… someone stabbed Ashley.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“If that girl wasn’t your friend, who is she?” Heathcliff muttered between bites of naan. “Just a girl I knew,” I said into my lunch. “I suppose she was my friend once.” “You don’t want to talk about it?” “No.” “Good. I fucking hate talking.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“I stared down at her boots. They had tiny bat-shaped eyelets and were the coolest thing ever. I hate you so much.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“Why? After you blabbed my deepest, darkest secret so you could steal my dream job out from under me, I couldn’t get another job in the fashion industry, which means I couldn’t afford my shitty Manhattan apartment so I had to come back here with my tail between my legs and I’m now sleeping in my childhood bedroom surrounded by towers of wobbleators.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“I blamed Emily Brontë. The brutish and untamable Heathcliff ruined me for nice guys.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“Anyone who crawled in a window because they desperately needed a book to read was okay by me.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“Books became my friends - characters like Jane Eyre and Dorian Grey the perfect substitutes for the kids who were horrible to me.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night