K.A. Last Quotes

The mind is a flame. Blow it out, or it will blind you.

Those who treat with Norilendra Queen must be accomplished serpent handlers.

Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume.

She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!

I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed.

Keep your hands off me.” She spoke viciously, through her teeth, and he caught a glimpse of her deVere ancestry. She was a virago in tiny, fragile, fairy form.

I only hope I may not be ruined, ” she was saying miserably. “I should be obliged to marry you after all, and then I’d likely murder you before the wedding breakfast was over.

She narrowed her gaze. “I don’t trust you to keep your eyes closed.”“Smart woman, ” he said. “I wouldn’t trust me, either, if I were you.

Good night, my lord.” The words were pronounced in her most withering tone.By contrast, he remained quite alarmingly unwithered long after she left.

What’s bosoms?” Cade asked.“You’ll find out when you get older, ” Jake said."A lot older, " Colt said.

The first dance is the worst dance

Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal

Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal (Candler)

The next time you're mad at me, talk to me, ' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.

When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.

...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped.

I used to be a mddle-of-the-road kid, but now with my freaky looks I'm definately an outsider. Hooray.

She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.

There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

I went back to my conversation with Siegfried that morning

In time, she eased into sleep, and her head rested against the plane of his shoulder. He held her and wondered that such a simple intimacy between a man and woman could mean so much.

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.

Anyone can dig a ditch. There's no way to dig smarter. Or dig faster. Having a baby is like being assigned to dig a ditch. That goes all the way to the horizon.

It's always been this way, I wanted to tell him. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.

Better watch her. She burns other people's books.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime

It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those secrets, you may keep your life.

You can be in love with solitude

The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that "no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain, ' Knight said.

This is the place where death rejoices to help those who live. It's written somewhere in every morgue I've ever been in. Nice way of looking at it, isn't it?

Sometimes I hate it so much, ” she said. “Always having to pretend.” Paul gripped her fingers tighter. “This is America, ” he said. “We’re all pretending.

I feel like I'm forgetting something. Vyrus. Clans. Zombies. Stay out of the sun. Don't get shot. Abandon your life. Drink blood to survive. No, guess that pretty much covers it.

That’s great, Grace, but in case you’ve forgotten, we’re supposed to kill vampires, not play nice and have lunch with them. - Archer

Everything happens for a reason, and nothing is an accident. It is all part of a much larger divine plan.

The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her pointer – here and here, this is going to happen. Voodoo.

Of course there’s another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I’m just not going to take it.

Bright light. You've always found your way.

Look, the truth belongs to the guy who's best at sticking to his story, ' said Ferguson.

You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no.

One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)

Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation

If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.

It wasn't that she lit up, but that everything else seemed to dim. Things he thought were important or bright turned out not to be when she was around, when they were held up against her glow.

I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.