Christa Faust > Quotes

“You know, Dean said, gesturing with his uninjured hand. If we were in an action movie, this would be the scene where you tenderly dress my wounds. then the wailing guitar ballad would kick in and we'd end up rolling around on the bed in a slow motion montage.

If I were in Q, The Winged Serpent, Xochi replied, this would be the scene where I sacrifice you to Quetzalcoatl.”
― Christa Faust, Coyote's Kiss

“Dean had never quite imagined his life might end like this. Naked in a Tijuana brothel with an eighty-year-old woman dressed like Janine from Spinal Tap sizing up his junk and looking distinctly unimpressed. He really wished the room wasn't so heavily air-conditioned.”
― Christa Faust, Coyote's Kiss

“Eventually, morning came instead of bad guys. That was the thing about mornings. No matter how fucked up your life got, how deep and black your despair, how sure you were that you just couldn't take another second of this shit, morning just kept on coming. Over and over. Morning didn't give a damn about your little drama.”
― Christa Faust, Money Shot

“Hell's a dry heat too. It still sucks. Let me know if you pull anything. I'm gonna go get a cold beer and pour it down my pants.”
― Christa Faust, Coyote's Kiss

“I hate malls. They're like strip clubs for women. All tease and sparkle and the empty promise that if you just drop enough cash, somehow you'll be fulfilled.”
― Christa Faust

“Give me one of those bottles of water. My mouth tastes like demon ass.-Dean”
― Christa Faust, Coyote's Kiss

“She had to do something. Anything. She had to focus, think, fight. She wasn’t anybody’s point to prove. She was fucking Batgirl. Her body was broken and her mind jagged and fractured by trauma, but she was still alive, and she wasn’t going down without a fight.”
― Christa Faust, DC Comics novels - Batman: The Killing Joke

“Did anybody feel an earthquake? No. Did you?” He shook his head. “You’re talking out of your ass, pal!”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“I want to be wrong. I want this all to have a reasonable...”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“Four minutes,” Walter said, “seems like four hours.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“This kind of event is so rare as to be the stuff of myth. Modern science has never managed to verify that it has ever truly occurred. Ever! And yet we have just witnessed not just one instance, but two. Two! And both happening at the exact moment when we were in the middle of...”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“Walter took the killer’s notebook from his pocket and was about to open it when Nina gave him a sternly arched eyebrow and a terse shake of her head.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“They waited nearly two hours, but it was becoming increasingly clear that, for whatever reason, he wasn’t going to show.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“Yes,” Bell admitted. “I have no idea how it could have happened, when she wasn’t even tripping.” “Clearly she was the one who was foremost in your thoughts in that moment,” Walter said. “Not that I blame you, given her apparent aversion to brassieres, but that’s something for us to analyze later.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“Help me. Please, God help me...”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“Chick and Iggy had never come home the night before, but according to Nina this was a fairly regular occurrence, usually attributable to drugs, women, or both.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“We should get to work immediately on recreating the exact pharmacological launchpad we used that day at Reiden Lake.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“Allan smiled to himself at his overly cautious thinking. After all, how often did the police get called by the denizens of a place like this?”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“Some time later, although Walter couldn’t have guessed how long if he’d been paid to do so, he became aware of a warm, spicy, almost ambrosial smell.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“The cement bunnies remained serene and unaffected by the chaos.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“Do I look like I could have thrown a goddamn piano out a window?” She waved her hand. “Does he?”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“Information that might be useful—or at least good to know before we open the way again. Forewarned is forearmed.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“Is this your stuff? Is this your TV? Did you drop your goddamn TV on my brand new car?”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“But in the meanwhile, we should watch the classifieds, in case Iverson tries to contact us again.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“Remarkable,” he said, allowing the floor to trickle out between his fingers. “Belly, do you see this, too?”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“In fact, he couldn’t remember the last time he’d had anything to eat.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“The girl’s name was Desiree, or that’s what she said it was anyway. Allan honestly could not have cared less.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“He thought maybe she was having second thoughts. Rightly so, considering what he planned to do to her.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“She felt warm and satisfied, but all the questions and uncertainty about the true nature of their connection still lurked there in the background, like wind rattling the windows of a cozy room. It was a long time before she slept.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox

“What...” Bell whispered. “What happened?” Walter came forward and peered around them. “My God.” He winced and turned his head.”
― Christa Faust, The Zodiac Paradox