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1fd183c
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When someone out there says that I'm not really human--what are they giving themselves permission to do to me?
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Carrie Vaughn |
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b56594d
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Jesus, you talk too much.
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kitty
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Carrie Vaughn |
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cb6a350
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You poked the hornet's nest," I said flatly. "Guess so." "And how did that work out for you?" Ben asked. "Found the hornets," he answered, grinning sleepily."
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Carrie Vaughn |
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ce69bfd
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He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push." He was such a lawyer."
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Carrie Vaughn |
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9afa3bd
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This conspiracy needs a flow chart,
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Carrie Vaughn |
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5eea07a
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You know why horror-movie characters always get killed? Because they've never seen horror movies. They don't know how it works. Right? But we do. So no one go into the basement alone. No one go screaming off into the woods alone. No one has any sex.
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humour
funny-book-quotes
horror-movies
werewolves
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Carrie Vaughn |
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4c25eb2
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As far as I know, no vampires live in Antarctica." "I'd have thought the long winter nights would be just the thing for you guys," I said. "Perhaps. But the food supply is a bit wanting."
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Carrie Vaughn |
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76048b3
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Lack of subtlety, that's how you beat magic.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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4546234
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I always told my callers, you can choose. You can decide what to do. Don't blame your homicidal urges or basic assholeness on being a monster, because you can choose. God help me. God, help me.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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a720ffd
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What all the stories and romances don't say is that happily ever after doesn't just happen. You have to work at it. You have to keep working at it.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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010c7b2
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Finding unscented candles was another challenge he never thought he'd have to face. Colors were fine, colors could be useful as elements in various spells. But since meeting Amelia, he'd spent way too much time standing in front of walls of candles labeled with names like "Cranberry Spice" and "Warm Honey." Christian bookstores and other religious supply shops became their go-to spots to find simple, unadorned, non-scented votive candles. A..
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Carrie Vaughn |
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89703c5
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But the longing was the phantom ache of an amputated limb. It was part of her, and most of the time she didn't notice. But certain moments were like reaching for something with a hand that wasn't there.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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e741375
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Humans - a renewable resource.
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humans
vampires
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Carrie Vaughn |
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088811e
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A werewolf isn't supposed to have parents." Brenda said, grumbling. "They're not supposed to have mothers. How am I supposed to shoot you now, knowing it'll upset that really nice woman?"
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Carrie Vaughn |
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d0fc54f
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I was a creature of the night, I wasn't supposed to be afraid of the dark. Not that it was the dark I was afraid of--it was the creatures of the night.
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night
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Carrie Vaughn |
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9172178
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They could remember the last Super Bowl and World Series and Olympics and the last movie they'd seen or concert they went to, but not when it was decided that there wouldn't be another. The Fall didn't leave a definitive mark on the memory of society, not like such a disaster should have. But personal memory remained. Kath always remembered exactly when her parents died, exactly the last time she spoke with her brother, and exactly when she..
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Carrie Vaughn |
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8e3e64d
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Cormick! Anything even remotely resembling trespassing and breaking and entering is going to look bad to a parole officer!' Cormick stopped, then turned and headed back to the car, 'I hate that.' I thought a moment, 'I'm not on parole.' I started for the box... 'Don't touch anything you find,' Cormick said as we passed each other.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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5bc747b
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In the end, maybe that was what separated the real paranormal investigators from the charlatans. The charlatans kept up the aura of mystery and obfuscation. The real investigators kept asking why and how.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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0455d19
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Cormac drove. He eyed me in the rearview mirror. "Anyone you want me to beat up?"
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Carrie Vaughn |
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b634447
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You mean like some kind of A Midsummer Night's Dream shtick? For real?
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Carrie Vaughn |
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1bc27c2
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I don't like going into this with a half-baked plan." "It's not half-baked," I said. "It's mostly baked. Just a little soft in the middle." Actually, that was bravado."
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Carrie Vaughn |
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80c1b03
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Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly, werewolf gotta have a pack?" I said wryly."
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Carrie Vaughn |
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34f9281
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As if death were a resource that had to be earned, that could ever be used up or wasted.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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82d60dd
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Did you think of anyone else?" Enid had asked the folk of this household. "Did you think of the next generation that'll have to work this land and wonder why they're getting half the yield they should? Or the ones who'll starve when the land gives up because you"--she had pointed at them, with two stiff fingers--"couldn't be bothered to take care of it?"
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Carrie Vaughn |
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a250bd3
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You're Regina Luporum," Ned, Master of London, had said. "Of course strange things are happening to you."
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Carrie Vaughn |
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66cf27e
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Had to stay human. Wolf couldn't drive the freaking car. Or hold the gun.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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62964a9
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And try to remember how to be an idealist.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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e2839e6
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A lot of these women had to overcome cultural conditioning against hurting other people, or even confronting anyone physically.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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9a4fb13
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I'll tell you something,' Arthur said. 'Until a certain age, everyone thinks their parents are heroes. Then they grow up a little, start to understand a little more of the world, and they realize their parents are just people. It destroys them, just a little bit. But it's part of becoming an adult. Everyone goes through it. You, on the other hand--your parents really are heroes, at least to everyone else. It's a bit remarkable, really. You ..
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growing-up-pains
growing-up-quotes
growing-up
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Carrie Vaughn |
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f2c5efc
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The underworld, the old world, is the womb that gave birth to humanity. The journey from under the earth is the journey from ignorance to wisdom.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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b442a36
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even when you felt that your own life had tumbled irrevocably out of control. You did what you had to do, somehow. You kept racing ahead and hoped for the best.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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1350ed2
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The worst storms were the ones that changed you. The ones you remembered not for how bad they objectively were, but for how much damage they did to your own world. Banners, planted in memory.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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fe91ead
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That we have purpose for being who we are, and what we are, though we may not always know it.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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bc3629e
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Love had sneaked up on us rather than bursting upon us like cannons and fireworks.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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89bb8d6
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You know, it isn't that were particularly good at granting wishes, or finding things or, well, . Playing tricks, maybe. but we pay attention. We find the loose thread that everyone else misses and tug. It makes us look so very clever.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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2eeaf2b
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I think we're here to make the world a better place than we found it. I think we don't always deserve the cards that we're dealt, good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we're dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good--we just have to work a little more is all. There's no destiny. There's just muddling through without doing too much damage.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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87632b9
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He was not up to the lecture he'd get from Ben, and he couldn't call Ben without telling him he was headed to a midnight showdown with Anderson Layne. Not that Kitty wouldn't lecture him, but the lecture would somehow be easier to take from her. Because you don't have a lifetime of history with Kitty. When Kitty says you're being reckless, you tell yourself she doesn't know what she's talking about and that she's just being shrill. When Ben..
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Carrie Vaughn |
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27aa391
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I like Nasser. He's creepy, but he seems sensible. For a vampire.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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a9ab0ff
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Kitty Meets the Band
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Carrie Vaughn |
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0797ed0
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It's normal to dream about anything at all. It's not normal to dream someone else's dreams." -Arthur Mentis"
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individuality
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Carrie Vaughn |
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d1e2b6f
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It happened so fast the driver didn't have a chance to flinch. Leo grabbed his head and wrenched, twisting it sharply until it crunched. As a man, Leo didn't look like much. Didn't look strong enough to break a man's neck.
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Carrie Vaughn |
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4e77ba5
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Are you sure this is necessary? I was hoping we could just leave Philos be." Enid turned on her, glaring. After all Philos had done, after he'd potentially undermined the entire community, she could still say that? Would she argue that Philos and his household should avoid punishment, too? "Not angry at him anymore? I thought you wanted this." Anguish pulled at her face. "I didn't think . . . I didn't expect . . ." She gave a frustrated sig..
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Carrie Vaughn |
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1f13c6c
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I think about living forever and figure I can get really good at Xbox.
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Carrie Vaughn |