“When he came out to the prison yard early that first morning, I was struck by how forgettable he looked. Short and bald, he shuffled along like any old tired man trying to make it through the day. No one would have guessed what he had done. But I knew.”
Source: Through the Lens of a Monster: A Serial Killer on Death Row, an Unsolved Murder List, and an Inmate’s Deadly Play for Redemption
“On that rainy morning, something inside Naso cracked open. He started talking—in vivid detail, sometimes in fragments, sometimes out of order. . . . The portraits of his victims emerged slowly, one by one. And what they revealed will haunt me forever.”
Source: Through the Lens of a Monster: A Serial Killer on Death Row, an Unsolved Murder List, and an Inmate’s Deadly Play for Redemption
“I was in the arms of my worst enemy, taking comfort from him. Would my life ever be normal?
“Normal is boring,” Mace said.”
Source: Dark Forsaken
“Some say revenge is sweet, but I differ with that assessment.
Revenge has a slow pungent flavor; it builds up from the deepest bitterness. It requires time for its stale taste to wither and evolve into a richer palatable savor. And once acquired, its pleasant aftertaste turns ineludible, enticing, as its pure succulence enfolds and blinds our senses into begging for more…”
Source: Written in Blood
“Time is not successive," he said. "It is concrete, cosntant, simultaneous, and not uniform.”
Source: Trafalgar
“Well then, who's ready to burn this shit-stain town to the ground?”
Source: Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery
“You've got bluebirds in your-- Yah, I know. Happens whenever I heal someone. Pops called 'em the bluebirds of healing. My beard is their magical home.”
Source: Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery
“Daphne, I don't think we're in Ferrypot Landing anymore.
~Sabrina Grimm”
Source: The Inside Story
“IF I HAD a dime for every time I’ve heard “We’re all going to die” or “I’ll kill you,” I could afford a better apartment. You can only listen to so many threats of destruction, doom, or death before you start tuning them all out. So I followed the wolf out of the building, then went home.”
Source: Free Agent
“How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (break of contract).”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays