Blood Trade Quotes

“You gonna put on your big-girl panties and fight with the boys, now?” He looked over his shoulder as if he expected me to blush or something.
“Who says I wear panties?”
I was certain that he flushed red this time. Laughing, I left him shaking his head and went on inside to find the Kid. We had work to do.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“My brother has absolutely no sense of self-preservation or survival instinct,” Eli said. “He has no idea we’re out here. We could be silver-eating, flesh-regenerating, vampire zombies, and when we busted through the door to eat his brilliant brain, he’d look up and say, ‘Huh?”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“According to Francis, Narkis and Zoltar have been plotting against their dad.”
“He did name his boys Narkis and Zoltar.”
“Good point. I’d have shot him too.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“People of all faiths are responsible to help the weak, the downtrodden, the sick, and the helpless, especially children. And of all the religions in the world, Christians are the only ones that are commanded not to judge, yet we do every day -- gay people, ethnicities different from our own, people in mixed relationships, people with gifts they were born with, power they were born with, genetic mutations they were born with, illnesses of the brain and body. I've got a little girl's mother to save, and, yes, she's a witch. Are you gonna make it possible for me to save her?”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“Baptized in a river when I was a teenager. I go to church most Sundays. My favorite Bible verse is ‘Jesus wept.’”
“Because it’s the shortest?” He almost smiled.
“No. Because it says that Jesus knew what it meant to grieve. He’d just let his best friend in the world die of illness when he could have gotten there in time to save him. I’m thinking he was between a rock and hard place, and the hard place let his friend die. He grieved. Then, when he could, he went and raised his friend from the grave, and he knew that if he did that, he’d die himself.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“Sometimes when the poop hits the fan we should block it and run, sometimes we should haul off and knock it for a loop back at the spinning blades. Wisdom is knowing two things. One is which time is which. The other is that no matter what you do you're gonna get crap on your hand.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“I would give,” he said, his voice rough, “everything I am to keep you from being hurt.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“The bluff on which Natchez sat was huge, and the road zigged and zagged and curled and twisted and dropped— like something Dr. Seuss might have imagined in a book titled The Cat in the Hat Drinks Blood.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“I have a daughter who is a lesbian and married to her witch partner for the past fifteen years. My wife and I lost her years ago through misunderstanding and judgmental attitudes and sheer, blind stupidity. I am no longer so foolish to think God sees her lifestyle with greater ire than he does my judgments.” “The”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“Never admit you’re wrong when silence lies that you’re right.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“After a time, old pain became like a living being, with breath and self-determination.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“Crap was not a bad word. It was the shortened name of the marketing genius of the best known flush toilet, John Crapper. Really.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“was made from a lightweight polymer material, not metal, making it very light and easy to carry. It was well balanced for a sub gun, and small enough to fit in the back pocket of most dress pants. Only a passionate gun lover would think it was pretty, but I could see the purpose and function. It was a gun made to kill people. Like the folding machine guns carried by Big H’s security goons, it was perfect for concealed carry and could be disguised in a small bag or package.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“Soul rotted before my eyes.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“My ears were mostly gone from the concussion of the explosives and shotguns,”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“shut off the bike,”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“Pissed off is not the same as well armed,” he agreed, leading the way into the house. “I’ll remember that.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“maneuvered the bike off the road near a ditch and cut the engine.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“My children are horrified at the histories. But the young tend to be such ninnies. Don’t you agree?”
― Faith Hunter , Blood Trade

“marked more by the way the grass”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade