C.E. Murphy Quotes

By the time I could see again, the captain had announced the final descent into Seattle. Couldn't they find a less ominous phrase for it? I don't like flying as it is, even without the implication tha...

Cute. Who is she? The devil. Really. I thought the devil would be taller.

He rallied a little. Who are you? What do you know about this? Disease control is our job, not yours. Who are you?My name, I said, mostly uner my breath, is Siobhan Grainne MacNamarra Walkingstick, an...

I updrive a Bronco.How environmentally irresponsible of you.

You fought demons? Jane said incredulously, And I thought my life was weird.You turn into a giant panther. Your life is weird.

We circled around and came in from the northwest. I lifted my wrist to show him the compass on my watch band, although I hoped that, being the pilot, he knew we’d approached from the northwest. I was...

I rested my forehead on a grease spot I'd left on the window earlier. The airlines, I thought, must have custodians who clean the windows, or there'd be an inches-thick layer of goo on them from peopl...

It took Coyote a very long time indeed to show up, or that he looked distracted when he did. How a dog could look distracted, I didn’t know, but there you had it. I’m not, he said for the umpteenth ti...

Except my eyes had fallen right off the vista and landed on a black 1967 Chevy Impala. It didn’t belong up here in the woods any more than Petite might’ve, but it was a beautiful car. Gary parked a fe...

I'm not a dog

Disaster’s good for the oligarchy. Ha, Billy said to my goggle-eyes. Fair’s fair. You pull out ‘exsanguinate,’ I pull out ‘oligarchy.’ I’m in awe. There’s nothing sexier than a guy with a big vocabula...

I had come to regard pride as the defining characteristic of a gentleman, when indeed I should think the word itself, gentleman, should impress upon me what aspect I ought to have settled on as the de...

But maybe, just maybe, I was who and where and what I needed to be. Maybe all the prices that had been paid were nothing more than part of high cost of living.

Morrison was treading on very thin ice, the words strained, and the only reason he was doing it was for me. I looked at him and wondered what he'd do if I curled myself against his chest and held on....

I’m a lawyer. I meet people every day who are on the surface considerably worse than you are. You, Janx, Alban, you’re really all so…normal. You can do stuff I can’t, but so can Michael Jordan. Dismay...

Being herself was extraordinary enough,

Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. She had always thought that meant other gods were false, and so not to be worshipped. Not once had she considered it could lend credence to their existence, an...

Billy, I can’t even pick my nose without using a finger. Sometimes my mouth should stop and consult my brain before it says anything. Billy got this wide-eyed look of admiration that belonged on a nin...

I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken!--Joanne

She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about to be dead, I didn’t know, but the idea completely...