177 Quotes by Richard Kadrey

When the world began, there were no such things as monsters. Demons were just fallen angels who, booted out of Heaven and bored with Hell, wandered the Earth sticking little girls’ pigtails in inkwells and sinking the occasional continent.

The clerk is looking at me. His expression hasn't changed. What I want to do is punch a hole in the front of the desk, reach through, grab his balls, and make him sing The Mickey Mouse Club song. But these days, I'm working on the theory that killing everyone I don't like might be counterproductive. I'm learning to use my indoor voice like a big boy, so I smile back at the clerk.

Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.

If you ever need to confirm that a girl is worth coming back from Hell for, show her your monster arm and see what she says.

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

Merry-go-rounds are a shared lie of childhood. Cruelty masked as fun. Tedium cloaked as adventure. A great spinning vessel of torment getting the tykes ready for the damnation most of them will richly deserve, all because their minds were permanently twisted by this parade of pony horrors.

Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.

Love a man who'll bleed to make a point. (Candy)

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.Or insanity.