"Vampires don't live at all," she points out, "neither do we." She has me there. "Fine, I'll go. But when Kurt leads his minions in a march around the cemetary with our heads on sticks, don't say I didn't warn you."

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Source : Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Eternal”, p.19, Candlewick Press

Cynthia Leitich Smith

#Vampire Quotes #Sticks Quotes #March Quotes

“I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.”
“I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.”
“Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment.”
“To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again”

Source : Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett
“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
“As a human being, I'm work in process.”
“Has anybody ever told you you're an evil woman?" -Reece "Who, me?" -Erin "Yes, you." -Reece "Li'l ole me?" -Erin "Sadistic goddess you, yes." -Reece "Do you want me to stop?" -Erin "Do you want me to hold you down and bang you like a screen door?" -Reece "Don't threaten the sadistic goddess, Reece." -Erin”
“Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but thereâ€™s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly does nothing to rob the words of their power. A film presents images; a book creates images inside the reader, with the readerâ€™s active participation. Books are good for your brain.”

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