181 quotes found
“Some things exist whether you believe in them or not”
“Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying”
“You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.”
“The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they dont deserve and could never deserve. M...”
“I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.”
“I survive at the edge of friends circles.”
“Its just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes hed forget my water or food and Id cry and cry and cry. She stops talking and looks out the window. I would try to tell myself stories...”
“Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life.”
“Can't get away from your own self.”
“We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down ...”
“Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cri...”
“When we turn,is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?”
“My view of writing "Coldest Girl in Coldtown" was to take every single thing that I loved from every vampire book I had ever read and dump it into one book--everything I like--trying to evoke some ...”
“I really love folklore. I had read a lot of faerie folklore that informed the books I wrote. I also really love vampire folklore; my eighth grade research paper was on [it]. [With this project,] it...”
“When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining.”
“The Anne Rice books are a lot about infection. I read "Interview With the Vampire" a million times when I was in seventh and eighth grade. Also, [writing Gavriel's backstory] definitely came from t...”
“Theres a tipping point with lies, a point where youve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.”
“He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd ...”
“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”
“Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure...”
