Jordan L. Hawk Quotes & Sayings

The monsters are real, but they aren't here now. You're safe. — Jordan L. Hawk

Christ, Starkweather, were you born with that ego, or do you inflate it every morning with a bicycle pump?"
"The things you screamed in bed last night helped. — Jordan L. Hawk

I hope I'm not disturbing anything," he said with a smile.
"Just considering what birthday games Whyborne will be missing out on thanks to this wretched idea of the director's," she replied cheerfully. "I've gotten to Blind Man's Duff."
Griffin laughed. "How about Pin the Tail on -"
"Would you two stop? — Jordan L. Hawk

My dearest Pudding pie" I read aloud.
"Yes, my little turnip?"
"Hilarious," I muttered. "If you ever call me anything of the sort again we shall have words. — Jordan L. Hawk

I believe we are surrounded," Gray informs Tiffany, who is nearest to him.
"No shit, Sherlock."
"My name is Gray. — Jordan L. Hawk

Then again, NHEs generally meant death and mayhem, so the average person would probably run the other way even if Gray had rainbows coming out of his butt. — Jordan L. Hawk

It knew him. And it loved him, without reservation or condition. He didn't have to do anything to earn its affection, or even to keep it. It loved him, always had, always would, and such was simply the way of things. — Jordan L. Hawk

No," he repeated in between kisses. "I can't stand the thought of anyone else's hands on you. — Jordan L. Hawk

He was a man's man, despite his vocation; after all, he studied American history. A litany of red-blooded patriots, fighting savages and redcoats alike, taming the wilderness, proving their worth with bulging sinews and roaring guns. — Jordan L. Hawk

Of course I love you. You are my other self. — Jordan L. Hawk

Don't sit down just yet, Whyborne," the director ordered, motioning me to the front of the room. "We've a bit of business concerning you before the meeting."
I couldn't possibly imagine what business would concern me. I'd dedicated my entire life to making sure business didn't concern me whenever possible. — Jordan L. Hawk

My entire view of the world has changed," he muttered as he went to the sink and began to scrub at the plates. "Sorcery, entities from the Outside, fish-men in my family tree, I can accept. Mr. Farr and Mr. Durfree as lovers crosses the line. — Jordan L. Hawk

Oh honestly, Whyborne, don't put up such a fuss. I swear, you men have your entire egos tied to the functioning of a few inches of flesh."
"More than a few," Griffin said with a smirk.
I buried my face in my hands and wished the mummy's curse were real and might strike me down immediately. — Jordan L. Hawk

Perhaps he simply couldn't imagine anyone would stay with a man who wasn't entirely whole. Who had been broken, and hadn't managed to put all the pieces back together. — Jordan L. Hawk

If we cannot find models in our past, we must try to build a future where they can exist, and devil take anyone who tries to tell us we can't. — Jordan L. Hawk

Rule by cats, that's what we really need. My first decree would be for more naps." "And — Jordan L. Hawk

I'm glad," she said with sudden fierceness, and her raptor gaze unexpectedly pierced me. "Even if nothing lurks beneath the surface of the world but madness, I'm glad to know there is something more. That this isn't everything. — Jordan L. Hawk

I craved him, like an opium addict craved the pipe: the sound of his voice, the touch of his hand, his mere presence in the same room. — Jordan L. Hawk

Before Griffin had come along, I'd been living inside a photograph: just a facsimile of life, without either color or depth. — Jordan L. Hawk

Strange, how much harder it was to expose my heart than it had been my body. — Jordan L. Hawk

I returned from Boston and rallied my fellow librarians to defend the town," Quinn replied, as if the answer should have been obvious. He offered me a small bow from his seat. "The librarians are at your disposal, Widdershins. We will fight to the last man. — Jordan L. Hawk

What was wrong with me? Even a cursory glance at the revelers behind me showed other people had no trouble with boisterous crowds, and some even relished them. And although I might not have minded viewing the kinetoscope, the promise of winning cheap prizes by shooting clay pigeons or tossing a ring onto a milk jug held no appeal for me. I'd rather be curled up in a chair at home, reading a book — Jordan L. Hawk

They could spend their time hunting demons and copulating, and everything would be perfect.
"You really don't ask much out of life, do you?"
And yet I still do not receive it. — Jordan L. Hawk

Christine seems more the type to shoot you in the chest than stab you in the back. — Jordan L. Hawk

It will be fine," Christine clapped Griffin encouragingly on the arm. "If it comes to it, you and I are hardly helpless against the otherworldly. Iskander comes from an entire line of monster hunters. And Whyborne is a monster himself."

"Excuse me!" I exclaimed. "I don't appreciate these slurs against my ancestry. — Jordan L. Hawk

Our two chairs were drawn up to the fire; a stack of scholarly books beside his and the latest volume of The Casebook of Simon Feximal by mine. Our cat Saul curled on the couch; he opened one sleepy eye at our entrance, then closed it again. The — Jordan L. Hawk

I seldom ate out, both for reasons of economy and because I feared someone might try to speak to me. — Jordan L. Hawk

I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed. — Jordan L. Hawk

Bullies like him were only strong while assured of victory; when faced with anyone more powerful, they turned into fawning sycophants, desperate to prove themselves. — Jordan L. Hawk

Yes. I wish to be with you until the breath leaves my body, until the last stars burn out, and the earth falls into the dying sun. — Jordan L. Hawk

Th-that would be indecent." "I'm an indecent fellow," he murmured in my ear, even as his hand stole down to cup me through my trousers. "And you like it. — Jordan L. Hawk

He brushed a kiss across my lips, there and gone before I could gather myself to respond.
'Come now my dear. Let's have breakfast."

"Yes." There was a golden bubble in my chest, pushing out against my ribs.
"Thank you for being patient with me."

His smile turned the gloomy morning to pure sunshine. "You're worth it. — Jordan L. Hawk

She kept leaning farther and farther forward, and I became concerned her bodice wasn't up to the task of containing her bounty. — Jordan L. Hawk

I wasn't strong, or brave, or anything really. But he made me want to be. — Jordan L. Hawk

I will not surrender my profession simply because men throughout history have been unduly enamored of their penises!" - Dr. Christine Putnam — Jordan L. Hawk