Steffanie Holmes > Quotes

“What doesn’t kill you gives you unhealthy coping mechanisms and a wicked sense of humor.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Novel Way to Die

“Like you’re a book where every word fills me with such wonder that I must close it in the middle of a chapter and turn off the lights just so I have something exciting to look forward to when I next crawl into bed.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Brutal Boys Cry Blood

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.“ – HP Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)”
― Steffanie Holmes, Shunned

“You should embrace the chaos, Mina. It's okay to not know what you want.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“Love isn't this high, noble act reserved for sedate dances and quiet moments. Real love is primal, and savage, and human.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Pride and Premeditation

“His soul he did outpour in a kiss that stole my breath and broke my heart at the same time.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Of Mice and Murder

“If the boys saw inside this place, they’d realize that I wasn’t this interesting person they thought they liked. They’d see all the secrets I’d tried to hide from them. I’d be wide open, exposed.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Of Mice and Murder

“We don’t know how we got here or why, but we’re definitely not supposed to exist in your world.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“our numbers decimated for sport. We have been made ridiculous through horror films and fetishized in romance books. We owe no kindness to humankind.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Art of the Hunt

“plum and musk and carnations – dark and wanton and intoxicating.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Poison Ivy

“Quoth loves you with a love that is more than love, the kind of love the winged seraphs of heaven must covet.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Memoirs of a Garroter

“You know that stories create the world, You work in a bookshop. You know the power of words. Stories are what connect us, shape us, bring us into existence and snuff us from history." Dante gestured around him at the vastness of the plains. " The reality of this, and what's beyond all this, is too complex for the human mind to conceive. But stories give form to the universe, order to the chaos, substance to the unknown. Stories give us beginnings and middles and endings. Stories take our base instincts and weave love and heartache and redemption and pleasure and forgiveness into every word, until we believe ourselves to be essential to the plot rather than being swept along by it.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Novel Way to Die

“It doesn't matter how things actually work, as long as they make a good story.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Memoirs of a Garroter

“Those we love have the power to hurt us the most.”
― Steffanie Holmes, If You've Got It, Haunt It

“Don't you understand that I cannot live without you? If he took you from me, from us, then he'd take away my soul along with him.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Novel Way to Die

“I will love you until the very last star flickers out, and all is in darkness. You will be my light.”
― Steffanie Holmes, If You've Got It, Haunt It

“Is it some kind of witch insult?”
― Steffanie Holmes, The Castle of Fire and Fable

“I loved our woman, but she was in possession of a set of pesky morals.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Plot and Bothered

“Didn’t you hear what I said? Mrs. Scarlett died with her face in a Victoria sponge cake. It was horrible.” “That is horrible.” Morrie kissed my forehead. “I was looking forward to a slice of that.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Of Mice and Murder

“Anyone who crawled in a window because they desperately needed a book to read was okay by me.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“At least falling is better than standing still.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Not a Mourning Person

“If that girl wasn’t your friend, who is she?” Heathcliff muttered between bites of naan. “Just a girl I knew,” I said into my lunch. “I suppose she was my friend once.” “You don’t want to talk about it?” “No.” “Good. I fucking hate talking.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“I stormed across the moors until the drink purged the rage from my bones, and I passed out in a puddle. I woke up on the floor in front of the Classic Literature section. Mr. Simson collected me and gave me some magical elixir to sober me up⁠—” “Gatorade,” Morrie supplied. “I keep telling you it’s not magical. You can buy it at the market for two quid.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Shunned

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody every observes.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Pride and Premeditation

“I stared down at her boots. They had tiny bat-shaped eyelets and were the coolest thing ever. I hate you so much.”
― Steffanie Holmes, A Dead and Stormy Night

“I want to take you to a punk concert so you can feel the way the music cuts you inside and forces all the bad stuff out.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Of Mice and Murder

“I declare after all that there is no enjoyment like reading’.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Pride and Premeditation

“Do not leave me in this abyss again," he murmured into my hair, the words an echo of something he'd once said to Cathy. "Be with me always. Drive me mad. But don't you ever, ever, scare me like that again-”
― Steffanie Holmes, Prose and Cons

“Just because someone has good manners and boring hobbies doesn't mean they're not capable of cruelty, in the same way that people who might look a bit different or act gruff or uncaring can be kind and loving.”
― Steffanie Holmes, Pride and Premeditation