Chelsea Cain > Quotes

“Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had proven that.”
― Chelsea Cain, Let Me Go

“If Gretchen had been feeling charitable she would have let me die...I wanted to die. I was ready to die. If she had put a scalpel in my hand, I would have stabbed myself in the neck and happily bled to death right there in her basement. She didn't do me any favours by not killing me. Gretchen enjoys people's pain. And she just found a way to prolong my pain and her pleasure. Believe me, it was the cruellest thing she could have done to me. If she could have thought of something crueller she would have done it. Gretchen doesn't show people mercy.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“Debbie often talked about Gretchen as if she was his mistress. But to Archie it sometimes felt like the other way around. As if, by moving back in with his ex-wife, he was cheating on Gretchen.
That was probably worthy of bringing up in therapy”
― Chelsea Cain, Sweetheart

“Lovely chatting with you, darling, but I've got to run. Face it, you're always more content when you're chasing me than when you have me locked up. I think we're going to have a lot of fun.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...”
― Chelsea Cain, Evil at Heart

“You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.”
― Chelsea Cain

“Even the most blatant assholes seemed to function in a state of grace when confronted with the brutal loss of a loved one. They moved through the world differently than other people. When they looked at you, you had the feeling that they were really seeing you. Their entire universe was just this one thing, this one event, this one loss. They seemed, for a few weeks, to have things in perspective. Then the inconsequential shit of their lives would start to seep back in.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“That woman was always very good at not seeing what was in front of her. In my experience, people who lie to themselves long enough don't even know when they're blind.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“I like to think of you not being able to end your suffering,' she said.
'I like to think of you not being able to satisfy your blood-lust,' he said.”
― Chelsea Cain, Sweetheart

“I wanted you to understand right away how committed I am to you...That you are the only one”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“I've had a really bad day," she said to Jack. "Your party sucked. I think my boyfriend and I are breaking up. I got taken hostage by a serial killer. I have spiders in my hair. And you're being a pig-headed asshole. I'm telling you," she added, with a glance over her shoulder at Razor Burn, "if someone points a gun at me again, or threatens me in any way, I'm going to lose it.”
― Chelsea Cain, Let Me Go

“You're a fucking aberration, sweetheart.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“You should have me restrained,' she said. 'I could kill you. You never know when I might have a razor blade tucked up my sleeve.'
'Why kill me now?' Archie said. 'It would seem anticlimactic.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“We lie to each other all the time. Whatever we say, it doesn't mean anything."
"I'll believe you," she said.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“What's she like?' Archie repeated softly. He put his hand on the trooper's shoulder and leaned forward, so his face was inched from his. Gretchen was a beautiful, sensual, charismatic, manipulative bitch, the object of Archie's sexual obsession, his torturer, and the person who knew him best in the world. 'She's a serial killer,' Archie said. He smiled and gave the trooper's shoulder an avuncular pat. 'If you ever lay eyes on her, shoot her.'
Archie turned to Henry. 'I'm ready to go back to the loony bin,' he said”
― Chelsea Cain, Evil at Heart

“She was a beautiful girl, but the lack of any spark dampened her prettiness.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“Why did you come here?' Gretchen asked.
'To kill you,' Archie said.
'How badly do you want it?'
'Pretty badly,' Archie said.”
― Chelsea Cain, Evil at Heart

“...in that moment she realised that Archie had never told her anything, never let her see anything, that he didn't want her to know.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“You're wrong, you know," Susan said. "She doesn't belong here. I'm against the death penalty. I don't think the state should be in the business of killing people. I think it's wrong. And it's hypocritical. Mostly, I just think it's mean. Gretchen Lowell ? She is the exception. She deserves to die. If we kill one person, one criminal in the history of the world, it should be her." Susan paused, reconsidering. "And Hitler. Her, and Hitler". Prescott had that shrink look on his face again, passive and unimpressed, and yet somehow judgmental at the same time. Susan continued. "She removed a detective's spleen without anesthesia. She stuck a wire through an old woman's eyeball and then threaded it behind her nose and out through the other eye socket and then she stuck the wire into an outlet."
Prescott raised an eyebrow. "And you're arguing that she's sane?”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“Something about the way she moved through the world did not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.”
― Chelsea Cain

“...in that moment Archie realised that Gretchen had never told him anything, never let him see anything that she didn't want him to know. She had always been in control. She had always been one move ahead.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“She lied to me today," Archie said.
"A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“His whole relationship with Gretchen was one long postcoital illusion”
― Chelsea Cain, Sweetheart

“Gretchen took a beautiful mugshot.”
― Chelsea Cain, Evil at Heart

“Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice