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Quotes from J.A. Konrath

While the modern Bible is missing many of its original passages, the Book of Bob isn't one of them. You're probably getting it confused with the lost Book of Fred.
~ J.A. Konrath
Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.
~ J.A. Konrath
What happens to rage deferred? It explodes. It explodes in spectacular fashion.
~ J.A. Konrath
Ain't no point in having a god, man, if he's just a slum lord never does nothin'.
~ J.A. Konrath
author of more than
~ J.A. Konrath
You're sick in the head.
~ J.A. Konrath
Society is a codependent group of narcissistic hypocrites without mirrors.
~ J.A. Konrath
If it takes every cent of my money, every single one of my vast resources, I'll see to it that you never insure another vehicle again. When I get done with you, you won't be able to put on roller skates without the Feds breathing down your neck.
~ J.A. Konrath
I'm no porn star, but what I lack in size I make up for in speed. --- Harry McGlade
~ J.A. Konrath
Frank," Andy said slowly, "I don't think the hellspawn wants to play checkers with you.
~ J.A. Konrath
Besides, if a guy couldn't accept the way a woman looked when she woke up, he wasn't worth waking up next to. Not
~ J.A. Konrath
You remember what you told me, Mom? That there are no medals for the completion of a good life? I've been thinking about that. About how no one wins. Like you said, it's impossible to win, because the finish line is death.
~ J.A. Konrath
I picked up a transsexual hooker named Thor, all six feet of her, at the off ramp to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, as I was driving up north to kill a man.
~ J.A. Konrath
Mothers shouldn't be allowed to get old and fragile.
~ J.A. Konrath
But Thor and I weren't going to happen, ever. I didn't tell her this. I might be a killer, but I'm not mean.
~ J.A. Konrath
Your species. You have a terrific capacity for effing things up. For hurting one another. For making the world a worse place. But then you invent something like ice cream. That makes up for a lot. Makes you worth rooting for.
~ J.A. Konrath
Nothing is black and white. There are no universal standards that determine what's good and what's evil. It's subjective.
~ J.A. Konrath
God, you're so hot, Irena. When are we going to get together, have ourselves a litter of little kiggens?" "On the first of never, Andy. And they wouldn't be kiggens. They'd be pities.
~ J.A. Konrath
The truth is, she has no idea how many have died at her hands. It's like counting the number of times you've had sex. Maybe you can remember the first fifty. After that, everything becomes a blur.
~ J.A. Konrath
When someone threatens me, I don't threaten them back. Bad people don't respond to threats. They respond to violence. The only time I point a gun at someone is when I'm going to shoot that person.
~ J.A. Konrath
Georgia hated all of them. Hated them passionately. She preferred to stay lost than ask for help from those idiots. So
~ J.A. Konrath
People aren't carved out of marble. We're all works in progress. The trick is to define ourselves, rather than let outside influences define us.
~ J.A. Konrath
No. I think guns are just a symbolic substitute for male genitalia, and I'm okay in that respect." "Fine. If they get in the house, you can whack them with your genitals.
~ J.A. Konrath
The scariest monsters have the best masks.
~ J.A. Konrath