Killers Quotes - Page 11

• So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hug, Serial Killer, Embrace

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Successful, Tears, Lines

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2011). “Ship Breaker: Number 1 in series”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Baby, Nice, Friendly

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.163, Macmillan

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• I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.

  George W. Bush

  Golf, Watches, Terrorist

  "Iraq Prompts President Bush to Give Up Golf". Interview with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. May 16, 2008.

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• It could be worse," he said finally. "Efrenia married an arsonist. Jake's wife is a kleptomaniac. I suppose, a psychopathic spree killer isn't that odd of a choice, considering.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wife, Choices, Jake

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.282, NYLA

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• Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

  Sue Grafton

  Believe, Police, Dinner

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"A" is for Alibi”, p.8, Macmillan

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• When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

  Dashiell Hammett

  Men, Organization, Differences

  The Maltese Falcon ch. 20 (1930)

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• Friends don't let friends get killed by serial killers

  Darynda Jones

  Serial Killer, Serials

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Death and the Girl Next Door”, p.18, Macmillan

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• When I was a kid in Boston, it was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. If you were living in the ghetto as I was, the Jewish ghetto part of Roxbury, and you went out alone at night, you might be subject to having people attacking you for being a Christ killer.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Kids, Ghetto

  Source: www.rutherford.org

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• My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

  Robin McKinley

  Zebras, Chocolate, Hot

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• It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Weed, Cutting

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• I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer

  Yann Martel

  Two, Hearing, Add

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.292, Vintage Canada

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• Yo! Deadheads," he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. "Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah!

  Jonathan Maberry

  Nice, Zombie, Trying

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dead & Gone”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business

  Tom Waits

  Boiler Room, Thieves, Lame

  Song: God's Away On Business

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• Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Years, Class

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.154, Vintage

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• Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.

  Truman Capote

  Cry, Victim, Fellows

  Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.265, Vintage

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• I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing , from what I heard. -Jess about Doug p. 107

  Meg Cabot

  Thinking, Guy, Ted Bundy

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• I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.

  Susan Abulhawa

  War, Boys, Leader

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• Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly.

  Lorrie Moore

  Love You, Planets

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.485, Faber & Faber

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• I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of that killer instinct lurks in the darkness. I used to think the house-burning paranoia was the result of some upper-middle-class fear regarding the potential destruction of a half-million-dollar Westchester house the size of a matchbox. But then I realized the fear stemmed from something far less complex: we're not used to fire. Candles are a staple of the Judaic existence and, like many suburban residents before us, we're pretty bad Jews.

  Sloane Crosley

  Cat, Thinking, Fire

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.15, Penguin

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• Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned.

  Neal Stephenson

  Drug, Motorcycle, Riding

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.158, Spectra

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• The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill of watching something die. Why does the stereotype of the animalistic killer persist? Because humans like it. It neatly explains things for them, moving humans to the top of the evolutionary ladder and putting killers down among mythological man-beast monsters like werewolves. The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Sports, Moving, Animal

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.25, Vintage Canada

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• 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

  Running, Ideas, Serial Killer

  Chelsea Cain (2011). “Evil at Heart”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Catching On, Sharks, Frying Pans

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.23, Macmillan

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• And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way

  Leonard Cohen

  Brother, Missing, Forgiving

  Song: Famous Blue Raincoat

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