The Hungry Dreaming Quotes

“And to happy endings,” Seelie added. “That’s my rule. Everybody gets a happy ending tonight.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“Told me I can’t leave before I file my final story,” he told her. “Between you and me, I’m not entirely sure where I’m going or what’s waiting for me on the other side. They gave me a whole ream of paper, so you’d better believe I’m using every last page.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“Appearances were everything. You couldn’t work too slow, obviously. Slackers worked too slow. Couldn’t work too fast or you were grandstanding, and that was almost as bad. Finding the right speed was all-important.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“I’ve been kicked out of pretty much everywhere. That happens enough times, you start to expect it. And you start thinking there must be something wrong with you, something bad inside of you, that it’s all your own fault.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“Hey, you okay?” “Yeah,” she said. “I need to find my friends.” He chuckled. “Don’t we all.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“You know, smoking’s a vile habit, but there was a brief time when everyone carried fire in their pockets.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“Leda picked up the phone. No preamble. “You actually dated that man?” she asked, her voice light as the summer breeze. “You hired him.” “We’re both guilty of poor taste. He has his uses, though.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“It’s all hatch, match, and dispatch.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“This is what death is, kid. It’s dark, and quiet, and cold, and you’re all alone. Forever.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“The Titans had a nasty habit of eating their children. Zeus, eldest of the Olympians, decided to do something about it before he ended up on the dinner menu.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“The summer of love was melting away and winter was on the horizon.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“You quit while you still can, you see it through to the end and earn your victory laurels, or you die trying.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“His men called Richard “Black Dick,” not so much for his side-parted hair—dark as night next to William’s dirty blond—but for his perpetual dour glare and hangdog look.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“The study of history, my dear, is not for the faint of heart. To do it properly, to do it truthfully, you have to be willing to learn how the sausages get made. History is made of blood and guts and oft-hallowed men doing terrible things.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming

“You can’t heal a man,” she said, “if he thinks he deserves to be in pain.”
― Craig Schaefer, The Hungry Dreaming