Joe Arden > Quotes

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

“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

“The paradoxical duality of human kind is explored through story. In order to raise the dead, we must call froth the ghosts of stories past. We exist in two planes. Spirit and United. That’s an aviation joke, keep up!”
― Joe Arden, My Soul To Take: Undead

“For my part, I call this place Log’s Library. But that won’t make much sense to you now since I still don’t seem to have gotten around to telling you who I am! Let’s fix that. If you were with us last night, you might remember who I am. If you weren’t, you’re about to find out. And if you forgot, shame on you! All I have is my name and you took it from me! How dare you?!”
― Joe Arden, My Soul To Take: Undead

“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

“How sad it is to be sad… I read that in a bathroom once. It does make it any less true!”
― Joe Arden, My Soul To Take: Undead

“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