Jenn Stark > Quotes

“Armaeus is presently able to enter Hell bodily, as are you. Any properly equipped mortal may enter a portal at will. Once you’re inside, however, getting out is trickier.” I frowned. “So it’s like an IKEA store?” “In”
― Jenn Stark, Wicked And Wilde

“If it was a dream, there’d be sunshine and unicorns. And ideally scotch.”
― Jenn Stark, One Wilde Night

“But I was small potatoes. I’d always been small potatoes. On the hierarchy of notable spuds, I ranked barely above a Tater Tot. Yori”
― Jenn Stark, Wicked And Wilde

“Try to mind your manners while we’re here. If it helps, imagine that you have taken on the identity of someone who is polite. Even charming.” “That’ll cost extra.” “I have no doubt.”
― Jenn Stark, Getting Wilde

“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”
― Jenn Stark, Wicked And Wilde

“Wasn’t this room guarded? Shouldn’t someone be noticing the fact that I was about to be abducted wearing nothing but scrubs and Noxzema? With”
― Jenn Stark, Wicked And Wilde

“Everything about the man screamed money, power, and danger. Most especially danger.”
― Jenn Stark, Getting Wilde

“Clearly the guy thought he could get what he wanted simply by boring me to death.”
― Jenn Stark, Getting Wilde

“My compass of preference was a Tarot deck—seventy-eight cards, each with their own unique images, which arranged themselves into spreads I could decipher with remarkable success. Whether the cards aligned properly out of luck, coincidence, or because secret fairies made it so, I never much cared.”
― Jenn Stark, One Wilde Night

“I’d never once seen Nikki adjust her makeup in all the times we’d driven through Vegas. It was like she applied it with a death threat, and it stayed put until she told it to move.”
― Jenn Stark, Wilde Card

“Not for the first time, I cursed my willful lack of knowledge about the sum total of all magical beings of earth’s past and present and their conflicting mythologies. Like my willful resistance to fully understanding the true depths of my own abilities, it was seriously proving to be a handicap”
― Jenn Stark, Call of the Wilde

“Not everyone you count as friend is worthy of your trust. Not everyone you count as foe deserves the title.”
― Jenn Stark, Wilde Card

“You know that departing Hell is not a simple prospect, but it can be done, of course. You must be willing to leave everything you see there behind, no matter how alluring.” A”
― Jenn Stark, Wicked And Wilde

“Dixie made it her business to be in your business,”
― Jenn Stark, Wicked And Wilde

“To me, and to other Connected who were, well, connected, he was the Magician. As in the Original Alchemist, the Trickster of the Tarot, the Cobbler…and the leader of the Arcana Council that was—quite naturally, I suppose—currently based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Keeping the world safe for all things magical.”
― Jenn Stark, Getting Wilde

“The dancing gave way to a full-on orgy, in multiples of two, three, and even more. Based on an unofficial survey, I seemed to be the only one in the chamber with all my orifices unclaimed.”
― Jenn Stark, One Wilde Night

“Only. The mightiest. Must. Come.” And they did. The Emperor appeared first, striding through a door in full Emperor armor and a long red cape, his face dark with rage as if he’d been compelled. Viktor Dal. Special skills: crimes against humanity. Dungeons & Dragons alignment: Lawful Evil. Despite his recent reunion with the better part of himself, he was, and ever would be, an asshat.”
― Jenn Stark, Wilde Fire

“Plus, the A/C had dropped to subarctic, and my gooseflesh was starting to hatch goslings.”
― Jenn Stark, One Wilde Night

“Ask not for whom the bell tolls”
― Jenn Stark, Call of the Wilde

“But also transcendent powers of luck, health, abundance, and long life. And maybe even a set of steak knives.”
― Jenn Stark, One Wilde Night

“It’s the pain, isn’t it? With enough pain, you wink out.” He didn’t answer, and I grinned. “I’m totally going to force you to binge-watch the Kardashians, to see if we can try this at home.”
― Jenn Stark, Getting Wilde

“I’m on the side of people not killing each other while they work out how to coexist. Once you start appointing who’s right and who’s wrong, it leads to a very slippery slope.”
― Jenn Stark, The Hallowed Knight

“Armaeus had insinuated himself into my dreams and more than his share of hallucinations from our very first contact, which had been a little intrusive, but it had its upsides. Eventually, he’d wanted more, I hadn’t, and we’d adopted a grudging détente. Unfortunately, he was a persistent pain in the ass.”
― Jenn Stark, Getting Wilde

“A moment after the Hermit entered, through another door stepped Gamon, the leader of the House of Cups, her face flat with fury. A third door shifted, and Danae entered. Still another and, well, a demon entered. A demon I had not seen in the daylight for far too long. Warrick, head of the Syx.”
― Jenn Stark, Wilde Fire

“the Hanged Man strolled through a doorway, ascetic and dressed in his trademark early-nineteenth-century style. Nikola Tesla. Special skills: all things electric. Alignment: Lawful Evil…or at least lawful asshat.”
― Jenn Stark, Wilde Fire

“I randomly found two brain cells that remained firing and linked them together, rekindling my ability for speech.”
― Jenn Stark, Getting Wilde

“Simon followed, looking slightly abashed. The Fool, dressed in a short-sleeved tee shirt over a long-sleeved tee shirt, a Where’s Waldo knit cap pulled tight over his head, and his pale skin sporting the same faint blue tinge of a computer screen. Special skills: tech. Alignment: Chaotic Good…now”
― Jenn Stark, Wilde Fire

“I’d gotten distracted by a before-and-after article on celebrity plastic surgery gone terribly wrong. And that was that.”
― Jenn Stark, Getting Wilde

“It always came back to the cards, and the cards had predicted Death. Sure enough, Death was all around me, shimmering in the night. The cards had been right on the money, in fact—first the exploding Tower, then the Magician, then Death. All of them appearing in rapid succession, each more alarming than the last. The only card left was—the Devil. What did the Devil card mean this night? More lies, more deceit? Or was its appearance simply a marker, a warning that I was about to head into the underbelly of society, down the well-trod rabbit hole of crime, prostitution, drugs, and death? Maybe. Or maybe I’d soon be enjoying Devil’s Food cake. I voted for Option B.”
― Jenn Stark, Getting Wilde

“The Magician. Special skills: great and powerful Oz, only with magic that actually worked. Alignment: Lawful Neutral. Favorite word: balance.”
― Jenn Stark, Wilde Fire