Love Bites Quotes

“I once read somewhere that all cats are little Buddhists. They attempt to reduce your attachment to material possessions by destroying them.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“Above her, the upstairs neighbours are doing something that makes repeated heavy thumping sounds. Chloë wonders what it could be. Basketball? Step dancing? Cattle rustling?”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“Your cat,’ Ari tells her, ‘keeps dropping on my head.’ ‘Oh,’ Chloë says. ‘Yeah, I’m sorry. He does that. Usually only with people he really likes, though.’ ‘It’s amazing! Why – no, what I mean is, how? How does he do that?’ ‘He perches on the door lintels, waiting for someone to come through.’ ‘Amazing,’ he repeats, peering at the narrow beam atop the doorway to the kitchen. ‘They’re only, like, half an inch wide.’ ‘He’s very graceful.’ ‘Cats are such fantastic creatures, don’t you think?’ He continues to stare at the lintel, as if willing it to divulge its secrets.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“Part Nine Damn The Torpedoes And Eat Your Grapenuts”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“Much less jittery,’ Chloë murmurs. ‘I guess I just needed a reminder that you don’t bite.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“Angela stands on tiptoe so she can rest her chin on Chloë’s shoulder and feel her breath, warm against her ear. The coils of Chloë’s curly hair, wet from the rain, brush against her cheek.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“He’s a strange little beast. Nimble as all hell. I’ve seen him run straight up a plaster wall. And he likes to drop on people’s heads.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“She feels Chloë shift in her arms, rolling on to her back to gaze up. ‘Are those actual constellations? That’s Orion, isn’t it?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘He’s the only one I can always recognise.’ ‘Do you know what his story was?’ Angela asks. ‘Some of it. He was a mighty hunter,’ Chloë says. ‘I remember he was stung to death by Scorpio because he was planning to kill every animal on Earth. Or else he was killed by Artemis for being an obnoxious jerk, it depends on who’s telling the story.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“Love Slave of the Night Creature definitely gets a checkmark in the column labelled ‘Rejected’.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“Chloë, the Tool of Satan,’ Shelly chants rhythmically. ‘That has a nice ring to it. Like “Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark”.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“treacly”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“She’s never been entirely clear on what kind of game it is. He’s tall, so possibly it’s basketball. But maybe it’s EverQuest or Ultima Online. It could be unicycle jousting, for all she knows.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“She generally spends most of the commute with her nose buried in a manuscript, but she always makes sure to poke her head up for the crossing. It’s the prettiest part of the trip, both now and at night on the way back, when the dark cityscape is illuminated by the weather beacon at the top of the Hancock Tower and the Citgo sign over Kenmore Square.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“She certainly hasn’t had much luck figuring out the rest of it. She has no idea why she doesn’t cast a reflection. How is that possible? How does it even make sense?”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“Chloë lets out a harsh laugh, causing Entropy to interrupt his washing and turn towards her with a quizzical look. Her mind is trying to kill her and she’s worried about split ends.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“She knows they’re called ‘intrusive thoughts’, although knowing what they’re called never did her much good. It sometimes helps to think of them as trespassers, alien invaders, breaking into her head and occupying her mind.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“She’s camouflaged like a leopard in the grass by the mass of stockings and corsets, boots and jackets, dresses and gloves.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“The monster was pretty miserable. So one day it got totally plastered on peppermint schnapps and watched Disney’s Beauty and the Beast seventeen times in a row. It woke up the next morning with a nasty headache and a conviction that it could only be happy if it found true love with a beautiful girl.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“startling the cat that had been dozing peacefully on her lap. And a startled Entropy is a destructive force of nature.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“She’s running low on pills; she’ll need to get her prescription refilled soon.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“Part One The Bloodlust-Crazed Inhuman Trollop”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“The third night Angela spends dead is a Friday night, and more than six hundred thousand people across the United States go out to see Wesley Snipes kill vampires. Blade is still the number one movie a full week after its opening, although five hundred thousand people are watching There’s Something About Mary instead.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“It wouldn’t have been Angela’s choice. Her favourite recent release was ‘Venus’, by Theatre of Tragedy: Norwegian gothic rock with Latin lyrics.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“She’s lying on her right side, and her blood has pooled there, darkening one arm and one leg and the edge of her face and torso. It looks like a single giant bruise, as if someone slammed her body into a concrete wall just once, just on that side. The rest of her has been left a waxy, greyish white, except for her fingers and toes, which have turned blue.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist

“He’s worked in a variety of roles, including submissions editor, theatre technician, and one job that could best be described as typing the number five all day long.”
― Ry Herman, Love Bites: A laugh-out-loud queer romance with a paranormal twist