79 Quotes by Kelly Link

So what do you think? Should the toothpaste and the condiments go next to the Elmer’s glue and the hair gel and lubricants? Make a shelf of sticky things? Or should I put it with the chewing tobacco and the mouth-wash, and make a little display of things that you spit?

It’s very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

She shone like a bright strange star shining in those empty lifeless halls, I write.

How could I love you? How could I love a ghost? How could I love something that I have to keep hidden in my pocket?

It’s easy not to find out things, if you try hard enough.

Babies weren’t babies – they were land mines; bear traps; wasp nests. They were a noise, which was sometimes even not a noise, but merely a listening for a noise; they were a damp, chalky smell; they were the heaving, jerky, sticky manifestation of not-sleep.

Yes, well.” The Devil says, “Things just get better and better nowadays.