Fire & Water Quotes

“Hell: making the best things suck since the dawn of creation.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“I really needed to stop getting into bed with random supernatural entities. I also really needed to start picking metaphors that didn't have a sexual undertone.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“Great. I was chained to a wall in the middle of an ancient vampire smug-off.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“Safernoc Hall was deep in the forest. The roads here were subdued, and almost fearful. They lurked in long shadows and cowered under trees. The gate up to the house was more confident, even forbidding. It wore its moss like a robe and its years like a crown. I parked the car in front of the main house and approached the doors. They were opened by a reserved gentleman who harboured secret regrets.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“The trees were different here, less friendly than those in the city. They gathered in unwelcoming mobs and glared angrily at the car as we passed. I suppose I could not blame them, for they were losing their homes to the roads and the bridges, and that must have been terrifying for beings that had persisted for centuries.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“Here lies Kate Kane. Started a land war in Asia. Beloved daughter, sorely missed.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“I’ll be all right. Mythically inadvisable is my middle name. Names. Are my middle names. You get where I’m going with that.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“He spiralled away into the crowd in a swirl of glitter and shadow. One of the things I appreciated about Kauri was that he wasn’t afraid to be supernaturally fabulous.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“I waited with my coffee-themed hot-water-beverage while she went to the counter to order.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“More likely, I was in one of those massive, internationally renowned museums full of shit we nicked from other countries.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“Elise’s enthusiasm for the whiteboard was on the charming edge of creepy. She’d told me once it liked to be involved, which I’d carefully blanked in case she decided to share any more of the private thoughts of my office furniture.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“I mean, if I was getting married the guests would include a celibate incubus, an undead drag queen, a living statue, my dad, who’s had his eyes stolen by faeries, the woman who stole him back from faeries, a teenage oracle who’d insist on bringing my arsehole ex, a pack of werewolves, assuming it wasn’t too working class for them, possibly the entire Witch Court of London—and that was way more people than I was comfortable caring about. If I’d made the same list eighteen months ago, it would’ve been dad, Jenny and a bottle of cheap Scotch. Mind you, in either case I’d have to be marrying somebody and that would involve some fairly radical changes to my lifestyle. Because, let’s face it, my longest adult relationship has been with my hat.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“I quietly ignored the banana.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water

“I don’t really get on with my mother. It’s one of those classic generational things. She’s a blood-drenched embodiment of primal hunger who keeps taking over my body and I’ve got a body I don’t want taken over. I suppose that’s what you call an impasse.”
― Alexis Hall, Fire & Water