Chessela Helm > Quotes

“Well, talking to me isn’t going to get you any closer to dating him. At least we’re going to be in a quaint, romantic place this weekend. Ask him to take a walk in the forest. Or ask him to go antiquing. Maybe he likes old furniture.' Jeremy shrugged.

Georgie gave him a doubting look. 'Yes, because there’s nothing more romantic than looking at used chairs.”
― Chessela Helm, Chasing the Angel

“She grabbed her phone and texted her were friend.

Philippa: Do weres have sex in animal form?

Georgie: Sure, Rashid and I had some wolf on hyena loving last night.

Philippa: Really?

Georgie: No, you twat. That’s called bestiality.”
― Chessela Helm

“Though it seemed stupid to believe he might be falling in love with her, he could think of no other way to describe things. They’d only known each other a week, but she definitely made him lose rational thought. He’d begun experiencing new and intoxicating emotions. Maybe it wasn’t love, but it was definitely something.”
― Chessela Helm, The Runaround: Finding the Faerie

“I just went on a date with a loopy new age witch who read my aura and took me to a play that critiqued consumer culture by spending a five minute segment just spouting off brand names,' she said.

'Niiiiice. That is something. And then you chose to call me, which I’m not sure I’m feeling good about. I mean, you go on a terrible date, and your first thought is to call me? Were you like, "He’s a terrible date, he’ll appreciate someone else being worse?"'

Georgie laughed. 'No. You were an awesome date. But I still thought you would appreciate laughing at someone who wasn’t.'

'Now, now, Georgie. I don’t laugh at people. I laugh with them. Otherwise my aura turns puce, and you know I can’t deal with that. It would clash with my eyes.”
― Chessela Helm, Chasing the Angel

“It had taken him a few months to figure out that they were right for each other, but now that conclusion seemed inarguable. They fit together in subtle but important ways. The best way he could explain it was to say that Georgie made him the person he wanted to be.”
― Chessela Helm, Chasing the Angel

“Philippa had absolutely no idea what was going to happen with Zara. She’d never seen movies about lesbian sex, or read books about it. She hadn’t even read books about men and women having sex. She read non-fiction books. Non-fiction books did not prepare a person for casual sex with ten of their coworkers.”
― Chessela Helm, The Runaround: Finding the Faerie

“What do you call Georgie?” Hideo asked Azkadek.

“I haven’t called her anything other than her name,” Azkadek said, feeling a little lame.

“You better figure something out, then,” said Hideo. “A special woman needs a special word.”
― Chessela Helm, Chasing the Angel

“Are you going to count me on the census form?”

“Sure. Ghost squatter, quantity of one. Sex male, race Caucasian, age dead. That’ll really help with the demographics.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Now this is a feeling I could get used to. A beautiful girl draped across my thighs and a better high than any drug could provide. Tell me – when people start having sex with vampires, why would they ever stop?”
― Chessela Helm, The Runaround: Finding the Faerie

“He tried to remember her advice, but he kept flashing to her in her bathrobe, with her nose in the air. He had never been tempted to spank anyone in his life, but last night he really wanted to grab her and give her a smack on the butt for that little nose in the air business.”
― Chessela Helm, Chasing the Angel

“Death isn’t about endings, or beginnings, it’s about taking the next step on a long road to finding out what humanity really means. It’s part of the journey we all take, and it isn’t the worst thing that ever happens to you. Sometimes it’s even the best. This is the story of someone for whom it was. This is a love letter to the event most people fear and dread. This is the story of death done right, of love and redemption and living after your life force has faded away. This is the story of what it means to feel alive even when you technically aren’t.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Yes!” he shouted. “Spank it!”

She complied. She had gotten used to the request. When you’d met angels and vampires it didn’t seem like that big of a deal to spank your boyfriend in bed.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Alright, but when you get back, Westchester. It’s not every night you get to hunt with a beautiful woman,' he said.

'Mmm, but then I will be a beautiful wolf. And I don’t do animal sex.'

'No. Definitely not. I don’t mind bush, but I draw the line at fur,' Luke said.”
― Chessela Helm, Chasing the Angel

“The more you write, the more you find your voice. I think with my earlier stuff, when I was dabbling, it definitely wasn’t there. I was writing like other people I admired. It wasn’t until I had a story I had to tell that I could step into my own words. And maybe that’s what it’ll take for you. Maybe you just haven’t had to tell those stories in your head. But the more practice on the stories you’d like to tell, the closer you get to the one you need.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“She considered telling him to speak less, but she thought it would be better to ease him into that preference. Wait until he was comfortable and willing to do anything for her, and then she could tell him to shut the f*** up during the f*** times. She wanted his body doing the talking, not his mouth.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Maria had kind of odd taste in men. She liked guys that looked like young, hip college professors. Apparently the nons who were hipsters didn’t show up at dance clubs on Halloween. They were probably at some hidden gem dive bar, drinking obscure beer brands and talking about raising chickens.”
― Chessela Helm, Chasing the Angel

“Jake Hatcher was a man worth stopping and looking at. He was one of those blonde haired, blue eyed, All American boys that you couldn’t help but want to take home and f*** senseless. He saw her and smiled, and the smile was worth an extra orgasm.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Lisette realized she had already let several seconds pass, so she wasn’t going to scream. She wasn’t sure what she was going to do, because there was a ghost in the middle of her living room. Somehow nothing in her life had prepared her for this moment.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Poor dearest. I suppose I better be a useful husband and figure out how to cheer you up. Why did the chicken cross the road?” he asked.

“Because anything it wanted was on the other side of a dangerous pathway that could kill it at any time?” asked Lisette.

“Errm, no. I see the existential worries of chickens are not going to be enough to distract you.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Love, he reminded himself. You love her madly. This was the madly part.”
― Chessela Helm, Chasing the Angel

“Everyone at work commented on how happy Lisette seemed. She wanted to say, ‘ghostf***ing will do that to you.’ But that seemed a little crazy.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“It can be sweet and tender sometimes, and then other times we’ll be coming like a freight train. Every mood means a different way of having sex, and I want to experience all of them with you.”
― Chessela Helm, The Runaround: Finding the Faerie

“It all seemed so incredibly unlikely. Girl buys house. Girl meets boy. Boy haunts house. Girl doesn’t know what the f*** to do.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Oh, god. I am in love with a ghost. I’m in love with a ghost that I told I didn’t love, and he left, and now he hates me. And I still have an excess human boyfriend I may or may not be in love with.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“That’s the dream, right? Find the person who makes the world make sense? The person you need to spend the rest of your life with?”
― Chessela Helm, Chasing the Angel

“Are we done here?” Thomas asked the reporter.

“Yes. It looks like you two have things you want to be doing. Can humans and shades… you know?” the reporter asked.

“Yes,” said Lisette. “And it’s amazing.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“Thomas reminded himself that Lisette just wanted a friend with benefits. She’d made it clear she wasn’t looking for a relationship. And why should she? He wasn’t a human anymore. He was a half-thing that couldn’t go out places with her, or meet her friends, or spend holidays with her. He was a dead end relationship, because he was just plain dead.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love

“She was apparently dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, all grown up. He certainly felt like the Big Bad Wolf looking at her. He wanted to lick and bite her from head to foot.”
― Chessela Helm, Chasing the Angel

“What? I like flesh. I’m a werewolf. It’s not like I’m going to be a vegetarian.”
― Chessela Helm, Chasing the Angel

“Lisette felt like screaming. She put on her clothes and went back to her office and pulled up a blank Word document. Then she started writing about how it felt when your live-in ghost decided your sex life wasn’t fulfilling enough.”
― Chessela Helm, Life and Then Love