Al K. Line > Quotes

“The afterlife is what you want it to be. Not what you wish it was when you are alive, but what you feel is your due when you strip away all the ego and the wishful thinking. It's what you deserve.”
― Al K. Line, Black Spark

“His day had been just like so many others — a boring as hell meeting in the morning, consisting of people going over the same conversations they'd already had via email, then working on a few projects when he was actually given any time to be productive. It was all so pointless, such a waste of resources. The afternoon had been filled making a few calls to clients then answering emails that he didn't doubt would then be discussed at length, again, the next day in yet another meeting.”
― Al K. Line, #zombie

“This was getting disconcerting, Twitter seemed to have been overtaken by very ill people and spammers. There was message after message from hot women inviting him to come check them out via links they supplied. It genuinely was melting down.”
― Al K. Line, #zombie

“This seemed beyond any corporate stunt, maybe something serious really was going on? But zombies? Yeah, right! Flicking through his timeline, which seemed to have auto-followed thousands of new people somehow, nearly every tweet had a link attached. Either that or grossly distorted selfies of people who seriously needed to get to a hospital, it was unnerving to say the least.”
― Al K. Line, #zombie

“in the words of a famous philosopher who's name escapes me: Fuck 'em, and fuck 'em sideways.”
― Al K. Line, Angel Eyes

“I'm a people person, but for short bursts.”
― Al K. Line, Evil Spark

“Mr. Wonderful dropped his "prize" and glared at me in the way only a cat can. Full of utter contempt, enviously secure in the knowledge he was far superior to any other living creature, me in particular.”
― Al K. Line, Necronote

“Dusk hit like a hammer had smacked the sun down beneath the horizon”
― Al K. Line, Dead Spark

“I leaned over the counter and planted a wet one right on her cheek.”
― Al K. Line, Black Spark

“age steals over us all in the night, working its spell, slowly chipping away at frail carbon-based life,”
― Al K. Line, Wildcat Wizard Complete Collection

“Have you any idea how odd a bird smells? I do.”
― Al K. Line, Filthy Moolah

“But this was England, and it was muddy everywhere that wasn't paved over. May there be more mud and less concrete, that was my motto.”
― Al K. Line, Blood Moon

“A huge ginger cat padded with indifference from the other room, paused in the open doorway, sniffed the air, then meowed lazily before it strolled over at a snail's pace. Telling me in no uncertain terms that it wasn't coming because I wanted it to, and it wasn't interested, not really, but seeing as I was here it would make sure I was unworthy of its attention and it would show me and I should be grateful.”
― Al K. Line, Faery Dust

“I guess when you chase through the millennia playing such strange games with a man you once loved it's bound to make you a little upset when you eat him.”
― Al K. Line, Hidden Spark

“Poor things were laden down and they were only youngsters. When I went to school at their age we had a couple of books and our shorts and vests if it was gym class that day, now it seemed like they were expected to do homework every night and carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. Whatever happened to just being able to go to school, play with your mates, learn a little, then forget about it when the school day was over?”
― Al K. Line, Demon Dogs

“People who spent their whole lives in the city, in concrete jungles where they pounded pavements, lived in sterile interiors, hardly ever spent time in their garden or visited the parks, they were so out of touch with the reality of existence it was no wonder the population was so crazed.”
― Al K. Line, Blood Moon

“But some things nobody can stomach, be they on one side of the law or the other, and that is the harming, or worse, of animals and children.”
― Al K. Line, Black Spark

“How a kind word, a smile on a bus to someone having a bad morning, giving an old friend a call to say hi, all the little things, how they made ripples that spread around the globe, affecting countless lives, and I found that she was a beautiful person.”
― Al K. Line, Death Calls

“This was the true magic in the world, the true life-giver. Closeness, human affection. Hugs. There is nothing like wrapping your arms around somebody you care about and them doing likewise.”
― Al K. Line, Blood Moon

“Thousands of images bombarded his brain, synapses reconfiguring. Some kind of severe epileptic fit shut down his senses. He could feel himself beginning to drift far far away. Paul staggered on the stairs, bumping into the wall, dropping his phone as he did so. Simultaneously the iPhone accessed all the social networks he was logged into, as well as his email accounts, blogs he had visited and anywhere else it could continue the cycle, further expanding the zombie botnet. Paul neither knew or cared about any of this.”
― Al K. Line, #zombie

“I was so goddamn tired as usual, wanted to sleep for a year. Scrap that, just a night. Have one bloody night where I just slept and didn't have to constantly try to stop my mind whirling, going over and over the past, worrying about the present, stressing about the future.”
― Al K. Line, Angel Eyes

“One thing that comes with age is the deep understanding that you are alone, always locked inside your own head at the end of the day. I've come to accept this, to embrace it”
― Al K. Line, Shift

“Exposed full on and with full line of sight to the zombie botnet's subliminal imagery he was no longer human. The data packet, corrupted beyond all reason, so far deviated from its original intention, had taken over and purged Paul's very soul.”
― Al K. Line, #zombie

“who is ever still, alone, mindful of their thoughts, and focused on nothing?”
― Al K. Line, Wildcat Wizard Complete Collection

“you have to love yourself. You're the only person in this world you can guarantee will be a constant companion until the end of your days.”
― Al K. Line, Empty Heart

“seeping grease like the tears of a cardiologist,”
― Al K. Line, Evil Spark

“I felt like a fraud, like a bad person, carried along on a wave of prejudice because I was too lazy, too easily influenced by the attitudes of others, to think for myself and even try to understand what was different to me and my own.”
― Al K. Line, New Spark

“hating myself for catching a glimpse of a very hairy wizard with one leg up on the sink, using a hairdryer to blow dry the forest around his knackers—what the hell is that all about? Use a towel you freak—I”
― Al K. Line, Faery Dust

“Hey, Mr. Wonderful. How are you today?" I asked, as I passed the cat where he sat by the front door, looking evil and plotting something dastardly. "Good to see you," he said, and he swaggered over and rubbed himself against my legs. "He's mine. I own him. I own this house. I own this land. I own this door. The stupid dog is mine. I own—”
― Al K. Line, Dog Days

“Disposable houses for disposable people, here to boost the coffers of those already rich, cheap construction disguised as something it wasn't.”
― Al K. Line, Empty Heart