Jackie Kessler > Quotes

“And oil's not supposed to mix with water. But then someone invented mayonnaise, and wham - instant mixing.”
― Jackie Kessler, Hell's Belles

“Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.”
― Jackie Kessler, Rage

“Sweetie, this is Hell. We invented paperwork.”
― Jackie Kessler, Hell's Belles

“If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.”
― Jackie Kessler, Rage

“WHETHER IT'S A CHILD'S TOY OR A NATION'S OIL, IT'S ALL THE SAME, the Red Rider said. YOU FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU WANT. AGGRESSION. IT'S THE SPICE OF LIFE. War was right: people had to fight for what they wanted. Or maybe balance, as Famine has said -- strength matched with temperance.

No, she thought. Not balance, Control. IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT CONTROL, War agreed merrily. [as in the meaning of why wars happen]”
― Jackie Kessler, Rage

“As there was no saddle, Lisa said to the horse, “May I pull myself up?”

And damned if the horse didn’t nod.”
― Jackie Kessler, Hunger

“I still love you," Aaron says softly, "I wish I can just turn it off, or that it would have faded away. I wish I could say I'm not the same man I was when you left me, that I've changed. But I am who I am, Caitlin. And all the magic in the world wouldn't change that.”
― Jackie Kessler, The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance 2

“When I cut, I’m the one controlling the pain. I know where it’s coming from. I know that it’s me who’s doing it, me and no one else.”
― Jackie Kessler, Rage

“All that mattered was the blood. She had to bleed out the badness, bleed until she could breathe again.”
― Jackie Kessler, Rage

“I’m a Horseman of the Apocalypse,” she snarled. “That’s not something you put into the rainbows-and-sunshine column of life!”
― Jackie Kessler, Rage

“It hurts,” she said. “If I do it right, and I go slow and shallow, it really hurts. Like getting stung by wasps, or pulling off a hangnail that’s the size of your thumb, and all of it is happening in slow motion.”
― Jackie Kessler, Rage

“Missy shoved the thoughts and feelings down into their prison of the glass jar. Only once the lid was sealed tight did she release her breath.”
― Jackie Kessler, Rage