Hadena James > Quotes

“Long ago, I’d learned I was emotionally lazy as well as emotionally challenged.”
― Hadena James, Butchered Dreams

“It was becoming a habit that wasn’t totally unwelcome.”
― Hadena James, Explosive Dreams

“Do you know the exact number of hours it requires before you can be considered an expert on any subject?  10,000 hours.”
― Hadena James, Tortured Dreams

“I had never had a funnel cake, but the few times I had smelled them, they had smelled like heaven on a plate sprinkled with amazingness.”
― Hadena James, Explosive Dreams

“His voice filling my head with memories of something other than the physical pain I was enduring.”
― Hadena James, Explosive Dreams

“Summoning the devil or any demon was turning out to be harder than Bell expected.”
― Hadena James, Summoned Dreams

“Bell could tell that buying her a taco or two was probably the nicest thing anyone had done for her in a long time.”
― Hadena James, Summoned Dreams

“Incompetence runs wild, like hedgehogs,” I told Lucas. “Hedgehogs?”  Lucas asked. “I know, I am now picturing little hedgehog armies attacking hamster villages to loot and pillage.  I had something better to insert, but suddenly could not think of it and hedgehog just popped out.”
― Hadena James, Belladonna Dreams

“asked to work as a consultant with the US Marshals to track down a serial killer who is using various torture methods from the Middle Ages.”
― Hadena James, Tales to Read Before the End of the World

“By the time they got around to examining my skull, I was so full of drugs, I didn’t care what they did to me.  They could pluck out my eyeballs and attach them to my feet for all I cared.”
― Hadena James, Explosive Dreams

“When he used that voice on me, I kept waiting for him to rip my throat out with his teeth.  So far, so good in the throat ripping department.”
― Hadena James, Explosive Dreams

“This place is calm.  Always still and calm, I never feel anything when I am in it except calm.  It is a place where no light gets in.  It is a place I worry one day I will enter and never leave.”
― Hadena James, Tortured Dreams

“Middle Ages. I didn’t set out to write that as my thesis, but like everything else, a thesis evolves. My name is Aislinn Cain and my life is a horror story. I have survived two encounters with serial killers.  The first time, I was”
― Hadena James, Tales to Read Before the End of the World

“What did you do to him?” I asked. “Took out some of his intestines with a spoon,” Eric said. “Seriously?” “Yes, you are not the only one who can wield a spoon in this family.” “Okay.”
― Hadena James, Fortified Dreams

“sure that Osiris has blessed you into becoming Pharaoh, Amenkohotep?"  I spat back at him.  "What will you do if it is Ament who has been blessed to the throne?  Then it will be me telling you to move back and not ruin his moment.”
― Hadena James, Tales to Read Before the End of the World

“One of them, bent down to pick up Ament.  Ament's guards came in closer to us, but I smiled at them and they relaxed.  I would not harm Ament and they knew it.  As Pharaoh began his speech, Ament busied himself by playing with my hair and”
― Hadena James, Tales to Read Before the End of the World

“the keeper of skeletons.”
― Hadena James, Cannibal Dreams

“To prove his point, the chimeras began taking up positions around the terrified crowd.  They turned their backs to the beings and watched the land around us.  I had a feeling they were also here in case something happened with the gathering crowd.”
― Hadena James, Dark Legacies

“As a matter of fact, the last time we spoke, I held a butcher knife to your throat and you stabbed me with a meat fork.”
― Hadena James, Butchered Dreams

“Hell hath no fury like a pissed off sociopath.”
― Hadena James, Mutilated Dreams

“I lit the cigarette again, stupid safety cigarettes always burn out when they are in your hand and then start ashtray fires because they won’t go out if you aren’t holding them.”
― Hadena James, Tortured Dreams

“One day, I will decide if you are actually my friend or my nemesis.” “I’m both, Malachi.”
― Hadena James, Mercurial Dreams

“It was never a good sign to find foam padding on walls.”
― Hadena James, Summoned Dreams

“One of the swings went over the fence that separated the arena from the fair.  It crashed into the back of a grandstand.  The commotion on the grandstand was a horrid spectacle.  Once packed with fans of the truck and tractor pull going on, they were now stampeding for the exits,”
― Hadena James, Explosive Dreams

“elevate”
― Hadena James, Explosive Dreams

“I could not light it up, sure, but since my choices seem to be death by serial killer or death by bad habits…”
― Hadena James, Tortured Dreams

“The face of the stranger was completely blank as he increased the pressure.”
― Hadena James, Explosive Dreams

“Roger’s face crunched with a satisfying thud.”
― Hadena James, Butchered Dreams

“Because, for every cause there is someone that wants to join hands and sing kumbaya, and feel like they belong.”
― Hadena James, Natural Born Exorcist

“them from the balcony and felt the world sway gently beneath my feet.  Then I turned and walked back into the palace.  The other people on the balcony followed me into the main room.  Quietly I slipped away from them, only my guard saw me go up the stairs.  Within moments, they had joined me along with several of”
― Hadena James, Tales to Read Before the End of the World