Quotes from Seth Grahame-Smith

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.

It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.

But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?

Of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.

A man can be whip smart and witty and caught up in the gale of life, chatting up roomfuls of people and making them laugh till their teeth damn near fall out, and at the same time, he can be the world's loneliest, most miserable creature.

I shall never relinquish my sword for a ring. The right man wouldn't ask me to.

In the real world, babysitting is a groovy way for young people to learn responsibility (and earn a little pocket money). In the Terrorverse, it's a plot device used to kill teenagers.

When she remembered the haughty style of his address, she dreamt of watching his eyes glaze over as she choked the life from his body;

An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.

Without death life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that could never be sung. For how would one finish it?

If the wise men mounted their camels now, they could escape, no question. But Balthazar hadn't ridden into Bethlehem to run. He'd come to kill every last one of them, or die trying.

And though we have all the comforts of the world, we find no comfort in them.

She remembered the lead ammunition in her pocket and offered it to him. 'Your balls, Mr. Darcey?'He reached out and closed her hand around them, and offered, 'They belong to you Miss Bennet.

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

How shall I ever sleep again knowing she is out there in the night? How shall I ever keep another thought in my head when she is all I care to think about?

Melancholy, my old friend, visits frequent, once again.

Miss Todd, I want to dance with you in the worst way.

Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain that all five of them were capable of fending for themselves; that they could make tolerable fortunes as bodyguards, assassins, or mercenaries if need be.

If I have wounded your sister's feelings, it was done only as a consequence of affection for my friend, and the belief that Miss Bennet had been cursed to wander the earth in search of brains.

The prophecy is clear, Your Highness. The Messiah shall topple all the kingdoms of the world. Even yours.

One: I am proud to say that my vampires do not sparkle. Two: I feel like in literature that we've gone [this way] towards the kissing vampires side of the needle. I think it's time we go back towards the killing vampires side of the needle.

Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.

That righteous anger quickly sharpens into determination. Determination, of course, being nothing more than anger with brakes and a steering wheel.

Nothing kills a vampire as quickly as the past.