Cherie Priest Quotes

I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode, as if each falling flake crashes to earth with its own individual baggie of used hypodermic needles. It’s ridiculous.

I hate meeting new people even new clients who intend to give me money. I try to be pleasant but I’m not very good at it. The best I can usually pull off is ‘professional if somewhat chilly.’ It’s not ideal no. But it beats ‘awkward and bitchy.

I’ve heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We’d see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.

Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown

In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

You’re a smart boy. Or if you’re not, you ought to be.

Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.

OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND. Naturally, I am crushed. To think, IF ONLY I’d consulted with a zombologist or two before sitting down to write, I could’ve avoided ALL THIS EMBARRASSMENT.

It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.