Kristopher Reisz > Quotes

“She should have known from that moment; nothing could hurt them. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse might have rode into town. Gilly and Sam would have knocked Death off his pale steed and swiped War's sword for a souvenir.”
― Kristopher Reisz, Tripping to Somewhere

“Nothing matters until it hurts.”
― Kristopher Reisz, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“It wasn't chance at all, Gilly. People are yearning creatures. They imagine and strive and hope. Stories about an enchanted band of vagabonds existed before the Carnival itself. But those fairy tales become the focal point of billions of daydreams, and eventually those daydreams condensed like vapor into something real. The Carnival only exists because you want it to, you and everyone else. So why's it peculiar that, when you wanted to find it, a path came into existence too?”
― Kristopher Reisz, Tripping to Somewhere

“Looking for a teacher? Go get one. I'll wait. Go. I'll tell them what I did. Go get one. Go.”
― Kristopher Reisz, Tripping to Somewhere

“This river is so old. When the Nephilim walked the land and men were like grasshoppers at their feet, it was flashing as thin and quick as a minnow.”
― Kristopher Reisz, The Drowned Forest

“It's kind of weird," she told Qi. "Gilly doesn't run up and kiss people. She doesn't dance. Se's usually so quiet. I mean, it's cool as hell, but for Gilly, it's weird."
"Part of it is Maggie," Qi said. "She has a talent for making people fall in love with her."
Sam started to nod, then she remembered she was talking to a witch. "So is Gilly like... under like..."
"A spell?" A hint of a smile crossed Qi's face. "Don't worry. Maggie just loves everybody, finds something good in everybody. And when people see the way she sees them, they tend to fall in love right back.”
― Kristopher Reisz, Tripping to Somewhere

“Come on, man. You can’t always be looking over your shoulder, you know? At the good stuff or the bad stuff. You got to look ahead, or else you miss the good stuff that’s still coming.”
― Kristopher Reisz, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“Gilly had decided that this was a dream. The Witches' Carnival didn't exist in the real world. And the Gilly who existed in the real world was not brave or cunning enough to have done everything that she'd done in the past day. The real Gilly was not beautiful enough to be lying in bed beside a woman like Maggie. Gilly had decided this was a dream, and also that she'd let that real Gilly, deep asleep somewhere in the outskirts of Birmingham, wither away and never wake up.

Already, Gilly could see herself arcing across the earth bright as a comet, moving too fast for the Ashleys and Tracyes, the thousand tiny insults and humiliations of the waking world, to ever catch.”
― Kristopher Reisz, Tripping to Somewhere

“If you aren't pretty, start trouble.”
― Kristopher Reisz, Tripping to Somewhere