Christopher Buehlman Quotes & Sayings

But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another's sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death of loss. — Christopher Buehlman

I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman. — Christopher Buehlman

He gets away with it because he's strong.'
'This is the story of mankind.'
'I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.'
'Yes. But then I read the newspaper. — Christopher Buehlman

After a pretty man breaks your heart, you're happy for a plain man. — Christopher Buehlman

The dead shouldn't cry, not even the lesser dead. — Christopher Buehlman

A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living. — Christopher Buehlman

You see why I'm such a good vampire? We're all lying, devious bastards, not like werewolves, if there are werewolves, whose MO is, "Hi, I'm a werewolf, surprise! And fuck you!" No, we lurk. We're lurkers. — Christopher Buehlman

We just don't deserve dogs, do we? — Christopher Buehlman

A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, We live here. We live here. — Christopher Buehlman

Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions. — Christopher Buehlman

The undead don't care about careers. Vampires are all retirees. — Christopher Buehlman

You'd probably rather have a milk shake than a quart of blood, too, so we'll have to agree to disagree. — Christopher Buehlman

How did Heaven come into all of this? Heaven was life, not death. Heaven was a woman holding your head in the crook of her arm and looking down at you. Heaven was a warm hand on your cheek and the smell of soup with garlic on the fire. — Christopher Buehlman

Oh, would you look at this, now," she said, pointing at a hole in her sage-green velvet couch. Never mind the brain and hair on it, she could clean those off with a stiff brush. And never mind the point-blank gunshot to the face she'd absorbed. It was the bullet hole in her couch that pissed her off. — Christopher Buehlman

If you're looking for a story about nice people doing nice things, this isn't for you. You will be burdened with an unreliable narrator who will disappoint and repel you at every turn.
Still with me?
Too bad for you.
I can't wait to break your heart. — Christopher Buehlman

Thank God for Star Wars. — Christopher Buehlman

That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head. — Christopher Buehlman

I think the closest any of us may come to lasting happiness is in seeing to the needs of others; I think the same may be true for those who go in sunlight, though their lives are so short that many will not discover this in time. — Christopher Buehlman

But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo. — Christopher Buehlman

There comes a time when loneliness is stronger than fear. — Christopher Buehlman

I assume you are the sort of person who would go backstage after the opera in hopes of hearing the prima donna crying on the telephone, or walking in on the baritone fellating the basso buffo. I respect that-I was always the same way myself-though I suspect you are not very happy. Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions. I remember, even before this was visited upon me, how I envied those who eagerly did what they were told: those who married without complaint at father's behest; those who looked up rather than sideways in church; those, in short, who honestly believed in God, good kings, and righteous wars. — Christopher Buehlman

She had seen him once, smiling a little through another friar's sermon about Hell, saying after the other left that fear of Hell is one of many paths to it. Forget Hell and love one another. That is all He wants of you. — Christopher Buehlman

We often live next to monsters unawares. — Christopher Buehlman

The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven. — Christopher Buehlman

Still, you almost felt bad for Mark Hamill trying to be somebody besides Luke Skywalker. Fucking Star Wars. — Christopher Buehlman

One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay. — Christopher Buehlman