Rachel Howzell Hall > Quotes

“May you be in heaven a full half hour before the Devil knows you're dead”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“Some days are diamond. Some days are stone.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The View from Here

“starve my distractions and feed my focus”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“And you look like you're going to a bar mitzvah at the Ponderosa.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“I committed myself to scheduling a come-to-Jesus heart-to-heart with Greg,”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“damp and messy ponytail.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“Freakin’ broads were taking over the LAPD. What next? Pink Glocks and Spanx instead of bulletproof vests and all-steel Walther PPKs?”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“Scorch his world by simply believing you are worthy of being loved by a person who will love you always.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“The sound of a dial tone told me she had hung up.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“Don’t let his rejection make you become someone you weren’t supposed to become.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“We warned you”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“The neighborhood was bad when I was a kid, but in a candy-is-bad-for-you kind of way. Now, though, it was bad for you like swallowing Drano followed by a rat poison chaser.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“He was so shiny that he probably bled Windex; so clean, he probably peed Lysol.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“had that combative tilt to his chin, that swagger anyone could master if he watched Season One of The Wire.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“Being human?” She smirks. “Be wary of a man who you don’t want bringing you a cool towel when you’re about to pass out from explosive diarrhea.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“He scowled. “I didn’t come all the way from Colorado to dig through some trash can.” “And I didn’t come all the way from the Westside to hear you bitch about coming from Colorado.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“My heart is pulverized, and I wanna cry.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“shop owner named Nadia Denham . . . An elegant name that evokes lovers and dances, spiced teas in fragile cups, and secrets, lots of secrets. Old ladies keep the best secrets. And the most horrible ones.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“I open my eyes and choose violence.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“Way up high, other worlds are being born - or at least I hope so. There must be, there has to be, a place better than this.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“Perfect in every way but delightfully…” “Delightfully…?” “Shameless. Pleasantly unrepentant. Deliciously transgressive.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“We warned you, Colette. You fucked around—and you found out.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“The sycamore trees that surround our house sway as the wind pushes in an oncoming storm now gathering off the coast.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“Unless the agent had meant twenty football minutes.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“And even though this was now my investigation, he told Colin (because Colin had a penis) about entering the condo.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“Ha. This bitch really thinks I trust her.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, What Never Happened

“The sunset made you think life was one big Hallmark store. If you ignored the bereavement, divorce, and “get well” sections, then, yeah, it was.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, Land of Shadows

“What something is worth isn’t always tied to money.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, These Toxic Things

“Wake doesn’t care about them dying. More dead means fewer people to rebel against him.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One

“I work very hard to make something out of nothing.”
― Rachel Howzell Hall, The Last One