Somebody Killed His Editor Quotes

“I thought I recognized you."
Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“You couldn't hurt a fly."

Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“
Focus on someone else’s problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice.
From now on you’ll have to live in a world you didn’t make up. Horrible thought.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“Sable hair bisected his pecs and arrowed down to the straight and unequivocal statement of his returned interest. Forcing my gaze to his face, I said, "I really don't think we have time for that."

"You know that, and I know that, but HE doesn't believe it."

"Believe it," I told HIM.

J.X.'s mouth tugged into one of those heart-stopping smiles. "Maybe you should whisper in his ear.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor

“They were all in bed before daybreak. And they called themselves writers? Amateurs.”
― Josh Lanyon, Somebody Killed His Editor