Kelley Armstrong famous quotes

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Creative #Bail #Tough

There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don't realistically work, if you're trying to say they have existed for hundreds of years, unknown.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Trying #Silver #Folklore

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Stupid #Guy #Wow

What I was doing when I was creating my werewolves is really basing them on a wild wolf pack, as much as possible. It's not as if being bitten brings you in, but what it does is that it strengthens that instinct for pack. It strengthens that instinct to need to be with others who are like you, and to form tight bonds, as an actual wolf pack does.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Like You #Instinct #Werewolf

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Dream #Missing Someone #Mistake

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Ignorance #Kids #Childhood

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Trying #Ghost #Danger

Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented...
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Departed #Demented

Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Enough #Hostage

Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Issues #People #Boxes

All right, then. Emergency medical situation, take two.” He leaped to his feet, staggered, keeled over, then lifted his head weakly. “Chloe? Is that you?” He coughed. “Do you have my insulin?” I placed it in his outstretched hand. “You saved my life,” he said. “How can I ever repay you?” “Undying servitude sounds good. I like my eggs scrambled.” He held up a piece of fruit. “Would you settle for a bruised apple?” I laughed.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Eggs #Two #Apples

Just show him that I didn't need his apology, I guess. Show him that I was okay. Better than okay. I was happy, in spite of everything he'd done to me, and no, I didn't forgive him. God help me, I would not forgive him.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Apology #Forgiving #Done

Bigger room, darling. Like I said, we need a bigger room.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Needs #Rooms #Bigger

It's because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says 'bless you,' the devil can snatch it.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Soul #Devil #Noses

I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Minutes #Term #Staring

Do you like manga?" she asked after a minute. "Anime?" "Anime's cool. I'm not really into it, but 1 like Japanese movies, animated or not." "Well, I'm into it. I watch the shows, read the books, chat on the boards, and all that. But this girl I know, she's completely into it. She spends most of her allowance on the books and DVDs. She can recite dialogue from them." She caught my gaze. "So would you say she belongs here?" "No. Most kids are that way about something, right? With me, it's movies. Like knowing who directed a sci-fi movie made before I was born.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Girl #Book #Kids

Elena?" "Yes, unless Nick found a woman in the forest, which I suppose wouldn't be too surprising.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Forests #Found #Surprising

Maturity is highly overrated.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Maturity #Overrated

I don’t care if I get one at all. Just as long as I keep getting anniversaries.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Long #Care

I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Fighting #Winning #Night

Believe me, I have better things to do than sabotage your friendships. No one else's world revolves around you, Cassandra." -Paige to Cassandra
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Believe #World #Sabotage

It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered. "So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Two #Dirt #Forests

You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying things shouldn't be furry. It's not right. And if I ever meet the Creator, I'm taking that one up with him." "That I'd like to see. Your one and possible only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you ask, 'Why are bats furry?'" "I will. You just wait.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Angel #Waiting #Flying

The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill of watching something die. Why does the stereotype of the animalistic killer persist? Because humans like it. It neatly explains things for them, moving humans to the top of the evolutionary ladder and putting killers down among mythological man-beast monsters like werewolves. The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Sports #Moving #Men

His gaze travelled down me, then zipped back to my face. "Sorry." "Focus, Rafe." "I am. Just on the wrong thing.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Sorry #Focus #Faces

Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. The third in place of a signature, was a lightning bolt surrounded by fog. Beside the drawing, someone had scrawled in inch-high letters 10 A.M. Tori snatched it from me and turned it over. "So where's the message?" "Right there." I pointed from picture to picture. "It says: Chloe, I'll be back, Simon.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Drawing #Fog #Chloe

He lifted his brows. "If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle on your hands. That was just a debate." "With chair-throwing." "Heated debate. Fights involve chair-breaking. Chair-throwing is just getting your attention.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Kids #Fighting #Hands

To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Father #Body #Checks

He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Practice #Matter #Abandoned

Derek? Derek!-Chole Chole! what are you doing out here? i said we will check it out later. key word WE-Derek oh, yeah I decided to come out on my own. thats why i was calling your name repeatively- Chole
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Keys #Names #Calling

I must have been sound asleep if i missed all that shouting-Simon What shouting?-Derek you mean that Chole just told you she followed a ghost onto a roof, and you didnt blast her all the way to Canada?-Simon He's a little off this morning-Chole More than a little i'll say.-Simon
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Morning #Mean #Canada

I'd always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them. That's the part I still need to work on.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Kids #Race #People

And the lesson is that I should always wear these, so no one asks me to do anything crazy like climb onto a roof. ~Jaime Vegas on why she wears three inch heels on a mission
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Crazy #Vegas #Lessons

The secretary moved in to block Simon as I followed Thierry into the office. As the door closed, I heard her whisper, "I think it's very sweet, you sticking up for your brother like that." "I'm not trying to be sweet," Simon said, raising his voice so Thierry could hear. "I'm trying to be fair. But apparently no one's interested in that.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Sweet #Brother #Block

You wanna fight?" I asked. He looked up at me and, for just a second, hesitated, then said, "Yeah. I do." "Well, I'll save you the trouble. You win.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Fighting #Winning #Trouble

One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Art #Vegas #Dumb

This is the first adventure I’ve survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I’d call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Adventure #Vegas #Hair

Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay him back for it. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Vegas #Sick #Guy

On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on each of two major roads. “Welcome to winter,” one said. “When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Winter #Two #Guy

It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail’s crawl home from Albany when snow hit.“It’s New York, people. It’s winter. We get snow. If you aren’t prepared to deal with it, move to Miami.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#New York #Dad #Moving

This is so cool," I said loudly as Dad walked away. "Have you met the tattoo artist? Is he hot?" "He's a she," Mom said. "Is she hot? Cause I'm still young, you know. My sexual identity isnt fully formed." "Your father can't hear you anymore, Maya." Mom sighed.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Tattoo #Mom #Dad

Yes you're getting your tattoo." I threw my arms around Dad's neck. "Thank you!" "Hey," Mom said. "I'm the one who had to persuade him it wasn't turning his little girl into a streetwalker." "I never said that," Dad said. "No?" I said. "Cool. Cause I've decided to skip the paw print. I'm thinking of a tramp stamp with flames that says 'Hot in Here.' No wait. Arrows. For directionally challenged guys
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Tattoo #Girl #Mom

Rafe didn't just flirt-he charmed girls right up to the point where they fell for him, then he changed his mind.I called him a player with attention deficit disorder.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Girl #Player #Flirting

What's the woman doing there?" he asked. "Covering a scratch on the hood. She was cheaper than a new paint job." He flipped through a few more pages of barely dressed women and classic cars. "Nick used to have magazines like this when we were kids. But without the cars." He rotated a photo sideways. "Or the bathing suits.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Jobs #Kids #Car

As I recall, I was still dressed when I fell asleep." "Just making sure you were comfortable." "And making yourself equally comfortable, I see.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Stills

Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Waiting #Rooms #Broke

Perfect night, wasn't it?" "It could have been." I smiled up at him. "But you were there.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Night #Perfect #Perfect Night

Using supernatural beings to build the perfect weapon? Intriguing idea." "Not really," I said. "They did it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A sub-par season. I slept through half the episodes.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Ideas #Perfect #Vampire

Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me half naked and bleeding in the car, and Cain unconscious in the trunk. No wonder I was anxious to get back to Toronto. Spend too much time around these guys and you become a little too nonchalent about blood-soaked clothes and bodies in the trunk
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Blood #Clothes #Car

Sure. You get all slutty with Rafe. You freak out. You cry date rape drug.' - Hayley
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Drug #Freak #Cry

Don't talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all. I wondered whether they had books about his sort of thing. Fifty Ways to Tell the Living from the Dead Before You Wind Up in a Padded Room. Yep, I'm sure the library carried that one.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Crazy #Book #Kids

Release the demon under promise that I'd be repaid handsomely, my enemies destroyed? Hmm, where had I seen this before? Oh, right. Every demon horror movie ever made. And the horror part started right after the releasing part.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Enemy #Promise #Horror

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Lying #Deceit #Harsh

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Responsibility #Saying No #Authority

The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Sleep #Devil #Towers

Wild dogs? Or just Clayton? -Nick Sorrentino (Bitten)
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Dog

The part about me being an 'okay sorcerer'? 'Not great'? No I believe I missed that. -Lucas Cortez (Dime Store Magic)
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Believe #Magic #Dimes

I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Car #Waiting #Clay

Go out and ask her into the alley.” Clay looked at Jeremy as if he’d just been told to dance the rumba on a public thoroughfare. I bit back a laugh. “Just walk over to her and point at the alley. Maybe say…I don’t know…something like ‘fifty bucks.’ ” I looked at Jeremy. “Does that sound right? Fifty?” His brows shot up. “Why are you asking me?” “I wasn’t—I just meant, as a general…” I threw up my hands. “How am I supposed to know how much a hooker costs?
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Hands #Laughing #Cost

Wish all my corpses would do that.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Wish

Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Father #Clay #Use

Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Mother #Taken #Kids

The stairs aren't challenging enough anymore?" he asked. Antonio laughed. "Challenge has nothing to do with it, Jer. I'd say it's the big bad wolf huffing and puffing at her door up there.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Doors #Challenges #Huffing

Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn't expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols that probably said, "If you bought this just because it looked pretty, may Buddha piss in your coffee, you culturally ignorant moron.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Karma #Coffee #Ignorant

Was it a camp?" Daniel asked. Sean nodded. "A naturist camp." "Maya will feel right at home", Corey said from his spot on a wooden lawn chair. Daniel sputtered a laugh and Sean tried to hide his. "Naturist, not naturalist," I said. "It means nudist." Corey leaped up and spun. "You mean old, naked butts sat on those chairs?
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Mean #Home #Laughing

I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care of me?" Dad flushed. "I didn't mean it like-" "Takes care of me? Did I go to sleep and wake up in the nineteenth century?" I looked down at my jeans and T-shirt. "Ack! I can't go to school like this. Where's my corset? My bonnet?" Dad sighed as Mom walked in with her empty teacup. "What did I miss?" She said. "Dad's trying to marry me off to Daniel." I looked at him. "You know, if you offer him a new truck for a dowry, he might go for it.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Mom #Dad #Mean

I told him what my dad had said. That got him laughing and as we pulled into the school parking lot, even the sight of Rafe waiting for me only made him roll his eyes. We got out. I glanced at Daniel. He sighed. "Go on." "You sound like you're giving a five-year-old permission to play with an unsuitable friend." "If the shoe fits..." I flipped him off. "Watch it or I won't marry you," he said. "Truck of no truck." I laughed and jogged over to Rafe. "Did he just say...?" Rafe began.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Dad #School #Eye

We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Way #Form #Hopefully

I leaned forward and kissed him. His eyes widened, then his lips parted and he kissed me back, mouth warm and firm against mine and that floating feeling washed over me and through me, and it was so amazing that when it ended, I just stayed there, my face so close to his I could feel his breath, see those incredible amber eyes, and that was all I could see, all I wanted to see.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Eye #Feelings #Faces

so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the same for the women clinging to the branch above the cat. she was the one screaming. The cougar-a ragged-ear old top I clled Marv-just stared at her, like he couldn't believe anyone would be dumb to climb a tree to escape a cat.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Believe #Cat #Tree

Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Hate #Passion #Love And Hate

Maybe I'm being selfish, but I choose you." He leaned over, lips brushing mine as he whispered, "I always choose you.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Selfish #Lips #Being Selfish

Uh-uh" Clay drawled above me, "Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Long #Clay #Enough

You forget, darling, I am the local psychopath." ~Clayton Danvers, Bitten
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Forget #Psychopath #Darling

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Next #Steps #Rottweilers

You guys are weird," Tori said. Simon sat on the crate beside me. "That's right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Guy #Popularity #Said

He's having a vision," I said. "That's what happens." (Maya) "Attractive, I know," Corey said between gritted teeth. "And now I get new witnesses to my humiliation. Wonderful." "We're used to it," Chloe said. "Derek used to do that when he Changed. Only worse." "Thank you for sharing," Derek muttered. She grinned. "You're welcome.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Vision #Chloe #Teeth

I love you. I'm not sure if it's the way you want me to. I think it might be. But I know that I love you. I absolutely love you.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Love You #Thinking #Way

Dad!" he shouted, loud enough to make my ears ring. "Dad! You need to get down here!" (Derek) Chloe held open the door and whispered to me, "I could say he's not always like this, but I'd be lying.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Dad #Lying #Doors

Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, You know that point they made... they were dead on.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Negative #Made #Reviews

I was...a journalist...though my typical beat was freelancing articles on Canadian politics, which never included any mention of demonic phenomena, though it might explain the rise of the neoconservatives.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Typical #Might #Beats

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Writing #Style #Needs

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Morning #Writing #Blame

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Writing #Worry #Borrowing

Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you suppose to be dead? Currently being chased by two Cabals? You're waltzing around Vancouver, eating in restaurants?" (Ash)"Hell no," Corey said. "I never waltz. I do the fox-trot sometimes though.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Two #Vancouver #Ashes

Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Angel #Cutting #Demon

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Reading #Passion #Storytelling

Tell me when you want to pick it up again." "Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight." "I'll do that. Lunch?
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Fighting #Lunch #Want

Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Girl #Guy #Likes

She's useful to me, I'm useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Epic #Long #Safe

First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Bikers #Body #Mocha

Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian." I glanced up at Derek. "It's a tough call, but I think you can take him.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Thinking #Pomeranians #Killers

Still sitting, he reached out and pulled me toward him. We stayed there, looking at each other, his hand still wrapped in my shirt hem, my heart hammering so hard I was sure he could hear it. when I inched closer, not wanting to intrude, he tugged me in front of him and I stumbled, half falling onto his lap. I tried to scramble up, cheeks burning, but he pulled me down onto his knee, one army going around my waist, tentative, as if to say Is this okay? It was, even if my blood pounded in my ears so hard I couldn't think.
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Fall #Heart #Army

Nuh-uh. No deals with the devil. I’ve learned my lesson on that one. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Vegas #Devil #Lessons

And the bad guys love to pick on the defenseless necromancer. This time, though, I swear I won’t get kidnapped or possessed. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Vegas #Guy #Swear

Nothing screws up a séance like the appearance of a real ghost. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Real #Vegas #Screw Ups

I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Vegas #Saws

Let’s just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting ménages á trios… and ménages á quartre, and ménages á … whatever five is in French. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Vegas #Interesting #Trios

I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Weekend #Order #Law

And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim." "Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said. Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?
-- Kelley Armstrong

#Names #Mermaid #Swim