Keith R.A. DeCandido Quotes & Sayings

The trick is to recognize the flaw in yourself and work to correct it. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

They were handy to have around, Nate's little gang. They were that wonderful combination of talented and noble. The former was useful, while the latter made it so incredibly easy to poke them with a metaphorical stick. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

You're not mutation, you are evolution. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Of course, you won't confirm or deny it, which means I'm probably right, since if I was wrong, you'd be gloating about it. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

He never feared anything again.
Because he knew the secret.
Life was cheap. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

He was convinced that the purse was like that stupid phone booth thing on that TV show Hardison liked: bigger on the inside than the outside. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Dude, you are not equating being on that lame-ass Star Search wannabe show with hosting American Bandstand, are you? — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Death is the one foe that everyone faces, the one foe that never loses. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Life was, in fact, cheap.
If life was such a glorious, magnificent, wonderful thing, then it wouldn't be so easy to take it away.
If life was a great gift, then he wouldn't be able to kill a fellow human being with one hand ... — Keith R.A. DeCandido

You get to help people in ways that I can't even imagine. Hell, *you get to help people.* — Keith R.A. DeCandido

The world tells us what we need to know when we are ready to know it and not before. That's the way of things. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

What is that *smell*?"
Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

You people did a good thing."
"That's what we do," Nate said quietly. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

All aspects of honor derive from honesty. A liar cannot truly be honorable, for where is the honor in deception? — Keith R.A. DeCandido

I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

I'd rather be prepared for one we don't have to fight than not be prepared for one we have to. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Back when he was a kid, about eleven years old, he used to go looking for cars that had "No Radio in Car" signs on them. He'd take a removable radio, of a type that was very popular at the time, and throw it as hard as he could at the car window with a note wrapped around it that read, now you have one. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

No, he focused on the one thing that he knew would keep him grounded the way the demon said he'd need to be.
"Take your brother outside as fast as you can - don't look back. Now, Dean, go!"
Sam's not dying. Not on my watch. You protect your family no matter what.
I'm coming for you, Sammy. Just hold tight.
And don't look back.
He opened his eyes. Behind him, he could hear Kat's voice muttering an incantation in a language he didn't recognize. It wasn't Latin, certainly. Since it was demon magic, it was probably some language that was even more dead than Latin.
The chanting stopped.
Dean screamed. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."
Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything."
"Says the man who'd just punch the haystack. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

I get that
but why replace him with this guy? I mean, Dick Clark did American Bandstand. All this guy's done is deny that he's gay. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Dad had this story. A Marine and a Navy guy walk into a bathroom together. They both take a piss, and then sailor goes to the sink. The Marine heads for the door, and the sailor says, "Hey- in the Navy they teach us to wash up after we take a leak." And the Marine turns around and says, "Yeah? Well, in the Marines they teach us not to piss on our hands. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Who's the genius who thought replacing Dick Clark with Ryan Seacrest was a good idea? — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Dean, you've been to Hell, I started the Apocalypse, and we're supposed to be possessed by an archangel and the devil. Now you're being skeptical? — Keith R.A. DeCandido

She's one you *really* care about, isn't she?"
Eliot shook his head. "How can you read other people so well, and completely misread me?"
Frowning, Sophie asked, "What do you mean?"
Looking right into her eyes, Eliot said, "I care about *all* of them. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Currently he was going through the entire Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout, He'd just finished Murder by the Book and was in the process of downloading Triple Jeopardy to his e-reader when the alarm went off. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

And the next time Ash needs a favor, he can go bite me. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

Age of the geek, baby! — Keith R.A. DeCandido

What kind of a house doesn't have salt? Low sodium freaks! — Keith R.A. DeCandido