David Niall Wilson > Quotes

“I would like that very much. You have a bargain, lady. I will find you here among the lost souls, trapped women, and birds. I find that my own state has improved, if only slightly. Where I was once likely to travel in the presence of a murder of crows, I find I will only be burdened by an unkindness of ravens. It gives me heart." - A. E. Poe in Nevermore”
― David Niall Wilson, Nevermore - A Novel of Love, Loss, & Edgar Allan Poe

“Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” –Joan Collins”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“Every time I come over, you are moving things off the chairs so I can sit. There are a lot of crates here.” Donovan just smiled. “It’s a system,” he insisted. “I know where everything is…” “Yes,” Amethyst nodded gravely. “He knows it’s in one of those piles somewhere…”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“he needed a crocodile sample to get out. Damned if he cared if it was some mutant crocodile that ran around on its back feet fighting tigers, he was going home.”
― David Niall Wilson, Crockatiel - An O.C.L.T. Novel

“One world moved on, the next came to life around you, and before you knew it, things that had been normal and accepted were nothing more than late-night reruns and memories to be shared over a beer.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“It was time for some serious thinking, and Jasper didn’t reckon he should do that on an empty lung. Empty head was one thing; lungs needed smoke to survive – so his ol’ Pap’d said.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“He always woke early, had coffee, checked his e-mail and then decided whether to climb back into bed.”
― David Niall Wilson, Crockatiel - An O.C.L.T. Novel

“You are a strange man, Mr. Poe." "So I've been told," Edgar said.  "I'd rather be strange than boring.  It's a flaw in my character.”
― David Niall Wilson, Nevermore - A Novel of Love, Loss, & Edgar Allan Poe

“It’s Cletus. I’ve got a good one for you.” “Hey Cletus. You shoot another poacher?” “Nope. Didn’t shoot anyone,” Cletus assured her. “Yet.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“We are bound to the earth by fate, and by gravity, so we will have to plod along and follow what clues are available.  I”
― David Niall Wilson, Nevermore - A Novel of Love, Loss, & Edgar Allan Poe

“We'll handle this ourselves." Then the line went dead before Mack could point out that there was a confused army between them and "'handling"' it.”
― David Niall Wilson, The Parting - An O.C.L.T. Novel

“When things got a bit too drunk out, the Gin was famous for what Cletus liked to term “Redneck Olympics.” He’d watched them at it more than once, and he knew better than to stick around when things started to run south of sane.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“They owned a pickup truck that, when on the road, looked like it had risen from a junkyard of its own volition and might have to be shot in the head to be killed.”
― David Niall Wilson, Crockatiel - An O.C.L.T. Novel

“Well, that’s me,” Cletus said. “I’ve seen a lot of strange things. Hell, I’ve seen Jasper eat barbecue. Takes a lot to faze me.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“Jasper looked around, saw the cleared couch and the piles of books, paper, and detritus that had been cleared off of it, grinned, and dropped onto it. “Quick, Pap,” he said, “before that crap starts fighting back and smothers us.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“What is that?" Isabella asked him. "Courage," he said. "I'm with you – we kill the damn thing, whatever the hell it is, but I'm not going in there unprepared." "You have weapons? You have something to give you strength?" "I got beer, lady. I got a shotgun, and I got beer.”
― David Niall Wilson, Crockatiel - An O.C.L.T. Novel

“He glanced at his e-mail, saw the box was full of unread messages, missives, requests, and adds for cheap, Internet Viagra. Apparently, Abba Contiga Brezhnev, Contessa of some country he’d never heard of, had a few million bucks she needed laundered, and had gone straight past hello and howdy-do and on to calling him her dear.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“I’m not a priest,” Cletus stood up, indignant. “I follow no Pope. I am a Reverend in the Universal Life Church. We don’t perform last rites.” Jasper snorted. “Universal Life my ass. You are a Reverend in the church of send in your ten dollars and a coupon.” “Amounts to the same, in the eyes of the Lord,” Cletus replied with a wink. “Folks don’t really mind who saves them, as long as they can go on sinning until their cards are punched.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“He left his office and made a beeline for the lounge and the coffee machine.  He was reasonably certain that caffeine wasn't going to help in this instance, but as his dad had always told him, it couldn't hurt.”
― David Niall Wilson, The Parting - An O.C.L.T. Novel

“Where did you learn that?” Vein asked, still staring. “I read,” Bruno said evenly. “I talk less than the rest of you. It gives me time.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“They both stared at the microscope as if it might hop off the bench and chase them around the room.”
― David Niall Wilson, Crockatiel - An O.C.L.T. Novel

“Seems there’s a man in the swamp off 17 that forgot you need to breathe to socialize in these parts.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“We both know men don’t come to the Dismal Swamp for head transplants on a regular basis, and, even though the Weekly World News is my Bible, I swear on Bat Boy’s honor I’ve never read of any head transplant that took. Barring”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“Jasper didn’t look convinced. Cletus slapped him on the back. “It’s been long enough since you went to church, Jaz,” he said. “I come to your trailer all the time,” Jasper said pointedly. “You ARE ordained.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“There's no such thing as coincidence – only controlled bursts of fate.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“All their lives they had lived with the certain knowledge that there had to be a secret symbol on the outside of their house that said "Suckers live here" in cat, dog, and several other animal languages.”
― David Niall Wilson, Crockatiel - An O.C.L.T. Novel

“Who is that?” Amethyst asked. “I don’t know,” Bones said solemnly, watching the old woman barring their way and leaning on her staff, “but if she says ‘You shall not pass!’, I’m out of here.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“You get yourself into more scrapes than a pat of butter,” she said.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV

“What could possibly," he said slowly, "be weird about a DNA sample from a simple crocodile?" he said. "We have vials of similar cells. I could run a slide projector and display them on the walls like a psychedelic 1960s dance party, and none of them – not one – would be in any way remarkable without the accompanying LSD.”
― David Niall Wilson, Crockatiel - An O.C.L.T. Novel

“You’re being paranoid,” Vein said. “It’s one of your better traits.”
― David Niall Wilson, The DeChance Chronicles Omnibus: Books I - IV