Steve Hockensmith > Quotes

“Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dawn of the Dreadfuls

“Failure is but the longer road to triumph.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After

“A battle cry" Mr. Bennet said "is a warrior's calling card. Only it does not say 'Good afternoon. I have come for tea and crumpets.' It says 'Death has come for you! Flee or be killed where you stand!”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dawn of the Dreadfuls

“The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were within its reach.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dawn of the Dreadfuls

“So she did the English thing. She changed the subject.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After

“Could it really be this easy to land a handsome man? If so, why didn't I try it ages ago?”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After

“Lieutenant Tindall told me I'd find you up here tilting at putrid windmills. Now I know what he meant.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dawn of the Dreadfuls

“Doubt, Master Liu always said, is death.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After

“Shy, delicate, gentle Jane, though the eldest, could no more initiate conversation with a newly met man than a rose petal could belch.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

“Longbows, crossbows, hair bows, rainbows - that's not the point.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After

“Somewhere in the city, Pestilence was raising an army for its fellow horseman, Death.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After

“We can honor what lies behind us without being a slave to it,” Kitty said.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After

“Let's make a game of it, shall we?" she said. "Whoever kills the most, wins."
"I will kill twenty!" Lydia declared.
"I will kill thirty!" Kitty countered.
Mary paused for a moment of sober calculation.
"I will kill thirty-two." she said.
"I will kill as long as I must," said Jane.
"And I will kill as long as I can," said Elizabeth”
― Steve Hockensmith

“she instead pictured Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s bloody, broken body at her feet. It proved a more comforting thought.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After

“You’re all so quick to point out what you can’t do. The time has come to learn what you can.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dawn of the Dreadfuls

“Nobody in this town writes dialogue that bad on purpose. Not unless they've got a hidden agenda…or maybe a contract with Universal.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery

“Undead isn’t inhuman!”)”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After

“The only bombshells that strike my fancy are the ones that will free the proletariat from the shackles of wage slavery.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery

“I figured at least three families could live in there comfortably. And after the Revolution, they would.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery

“If you think about it, Santa Claus is a little like Batman. He's a vigilante.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Naughty

“but it could have gone worse.” “Indeed,” her father replied. “At least none of us were eaten.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After

“Property being theft and all, I felt free to help myself.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery

“Minutes later, he and Mrs. Claus were in the air, headed for Sweden behind a team of young back-up reindeer. "Now, Pac-Man! Now, Disco! Now, Yoda and Vader!" Mrs. Claus called out, giving the reins a gentle snap. "On, Ford! On Carter! On, Alda and Nader!”
― Steve Hockensmith, Naughty

“He checked himself without really looking at himself. He was ten pounds heavier and a few dozen hairs grayer than he'd been the year before. He knew that. He didn't need to see it again.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery

“like a shaft of coal jutting from a glass of milk.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After

“It hadn't turned out at all like the picture in the cookbook, that loaf. It looked like a roll of fiberglass insulation coated in gravel.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Naughty

“A world with zombies in it had no tolerance for softness or sentiment. The dreadfuls infected everything just by virtue of existing. To live in their world, one had to become like them. Dead inside. So”
― Steve Hockensmith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

“I kept hoping to see an ad in the classifieds that suited me. You know. "Over-Educated Smart-Ass Wanted to Talk About Books and Movies and Stuff.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Naughty

“Sparring gowns, battle gowns, executioner’s gowns—it didn’t matter. They were all dull dull dull!”
― Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After

“I instantly regretted it. Cynicism is a decadent pose, a façade of apathetic ennui that's antithetical to the committed idealism of the true internationalist. But when you're a private eye, it sort of gets to be a habit.”
― Steve Hockensmith, Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery