The Plague Quotes

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

A plague on both your houses.

You're murderers, " she told the stunned crowd. "You killed him. He was a miracle, and you killed him. Now you've just got me. And I'm a curse.

It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'""That's great, " Lana said."Invincible. I can't be vinced.""That's not even a word, " Lana said."Go ahead: try to vince me, " Sanjit said.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.

Who taught you all this, doctor?"The reply came promptly:"Suffering.

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

Nothing dies in Hell.

Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen.

No, " Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch.""Good, " Sanjit said."Good? Why good?""Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you.

Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.

You're staring, " Lana said."Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.