Joe Arden > Quotes

“Reaper, death guide, post life concierge. Whatever one wants to call it, it’s my job. And apparently, because nobody likes an unhappy soul, I have to do it with something resembling a smile. It’s in the Reaper Regulations Guidebook. Which I find absurd, of course. I died centuries ago and any customer service I had left in me evaporated somewhere between the devastation of the plague and the invention of social media”
― Joe Arden, Grim

“Well, that was anticlimactic.”
“Sorry to disappoint, I’m normally quite climactic.”
“Has that line ever worked?”
“More times than I can count”
“Because you’re so terrible at math?”
“Exactly”, I give her the verbal sparing victory and change the subject.”
― Joe Arden, Grim

“My heart-the one I thought buried centuries ago-shatters. Shards so sharp they carve regret through every piece of me.”
― Joe Arden, Grim

“Ice cream?”
“Yes, ice cream.”
There’s a beat of silence while I try to figure out if she’s serious.
“That’s what’s keeping you from spiraling into despair? Frozen dairy?”
“That and spite!”, she says brightly grabbing her bag.”
― Joe Arden, Grim

“Τίποτα δεν είναι αδύνατο” (Típota den eínai adýnato)
“What did you just mumble, Reaper?”
“Nothing is impossible.”
“In Greek.”
“Yes.”
“Why Greek?”
“What? I don’t know. The language fit the mood. I know 10 of them, might as well use them.”
― Joe Arden, Grim