Red Tash > Quotes

“Only the wicked understand the ways of the wicked, my dear.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“Oh, hell. You're a fairy," I said.

"Yeah," he said. "You know, they call it 'being gay' nowadays, but sure, whatever.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“There were lots of things in this lifetime that I'd doubted, precious little I'd known for sure. But in that moment, I knew I would save her, or die trying.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“So confusing. It was some kind of magic, I knew that for sure, but I didn't understand the subtleties of it all. You'd have thought all those years of HBO and shit would have prepared me better.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“Say what you want about fairies, but you haven't rocked out until you've heard Smoke on the Water played on a harpsichord. ~Harlow”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“They’re distracted. Good thing about living in the landfill,” he said. “Lots here to catch the attention of the fae. They’re so ADHD.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“He was six years old this time, and ancient.”
― Red Tash, This Brilliant Darkness

“It was a crypt where music played to masses of the dead, and McJagger was their desolate pharaoh, a walking mummified king. I remembered it well.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“You know your marriage is in trouble when your wife would rather listen to a cackling drug lord than accept your apology.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?”
― Red Tash, This Brilliant Darkness

“He guffawed. Motherfucker seriously guffawed.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“A sign read "Free drinks for billiards competitors only." Hand-lettered below read "All others will pay." It was written in blood. I could tell because a red fairy with what looked like black insect wings was writing it at the time, with his own dismembered finger.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“I would have said sacrificing one of his own kind was a new low for Jag, but honestly? Jag was a bottomless pit of low.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Derby

“He looked up at the round, stained glass window in front of him, a blurred kaleidoscope backlit in the morning sun. It glowed. The color of heaven. Of her hair.

He sat back and cracked open the dry, leather cover of a pew Bible, and a mixture of sweat and tears christened its pristine pages.”
― Red Tash, This Brilliant Darkness

“I might not know much about being a witch per se, but I know this: it's kind of a one-size-fits-all deal. Having gifts, being a wise woman, reading tarot--whatever your witchy quirks might be--those aspects of your life don't disappear just because you're busy for a few years changing diapers and driving kids to soccer practice.”
― Red Tash, Miss Fitz Discovers Midlife Magic

“What good is it, being two stranded British fops in the heart of America, if we don't announce it on Halloween by wearing enormous fuzzy hats for the purpose of our humiliation?”
― Red Tash, This Brilliant Darkness

“If Liana wanted to fight over Harlow, she was going to lose. Not that I liked him that way. That was to say, I wasn't sure how I felt about Harlow, but it damned sure wasn't up to her to tell me.”
― Red Tash, Troll Or Park

“Oh, I love you, June, I really do. It's just that you sounded so...twat-ish just then.”
― Red Tash, This Brilliant Darkness

“Okay, maybe you two were witchy, but me...I feel like the Sanderson Sister who comes flying in on the vacuum instead of a broom.”
― Red Tash, Miss Fitz Discovers Midlife Magic

“She took a deep breath. "Let me begin again." If this girl wanted to play ball in front of her department head, Christine would bring it. She closed her eyes and accessed the most expensive Philo Department vocabulary words she possessed.

"Well, as human beings, when we immanentize the eschaton…”
― Red Tash, This Brilliant Darkness

“There was nothing but power, and those who hadn't yet found the tap. (Greachin)”
― Red Tash, This Brilliant Darkness

“Life was complicated enough without word getting around town that she and her friends were forming some kind of midlife coven.”
― Red Tash, Miss Fitz Discovers Midlife Magic