Quotes from Carrie Vaughn

V.L.A.D.: Vampire League Against Discrimination.

Have you thought about going insane? It would seem like a reasonable thing to do, given his circumstances. Did once. Got boring, so I snapped out of it.

So I'd been called the Barbara Walters of weird shit.There's weird shit and then there's weird shit.

I was under the impression that werewolf packs were not meant to be run by committee. Yeah, I said. But I dont want to be like all those other werewolves, you know? Says the werewolf named Kitty. It's too late to change my name now, I grumbled.

Well. Miracles never cease.' 'Amen to that.' Which, upon reflection, was a very strange thing to hear a vampire say.

You only get married the first time once." There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence

You know your all fucks! why am i so dichable? now how am i supposed to kill you with out upseting that poor nice women!? God damnit alice i liked you why did you have to be such a bitch

People always sounded worried when I called them. Maybe because I only ever called a lot of them when I was in trouble and needed help. I needed to set up more lunch dates or have more parties, to cure people of the idea that a call from me automatically equaled danger. Then again, that was probably a lost cause.

Stupid, fragile mortals.

Um, yeah. I mean, I think… wow. It made sense, really. All part of that vampire seduction gambit: lure the prey to you, give it a reason to open its veins. Sure cut down on that messy struggling. Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow. Her voice held a smile. So am I.

Even with the high-tech air filtration system in a modern facility, the place still smelled like archival storage: old paper, stale manila folders, cardboard, and dust. Libraries and accountants' basements all over the world smelled like this. It was the scent of information waiting to be discovered.

You know why horror-movie characters always get killed? Because they've never seen horror movies. They don't know how it works. Right? But we do. So no one go into the basement alone. No one go screaming off into the woods alone. No one has any sex.

When someone out there says that I'm not really human—what are they giving themselves permission to do to me?

I've learned something: What many of us cal destiny is really our own instinct. We know what is right, but we don't want to admit it, especially if what is right will lead to our own death. We call it destiny so we don't have to accept responsibility for making those decisions. Human instinct is stronger than anyone will admit.

Jesus, you talk too much.

This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that time were still here, alive, even if it was just in the form of collective memory.

This conspiracy needs a flow chart

As far as I know, no vampires live in Antarctica." "I'd have thought the long winter nights would be just the thing for you guys," I said. "Perhaps. But the food supply is a bit wanting.

You poked the hornet's nest," I said flatly. "Guess so." "And how did that work out for you?" Ben asked. "Found the hornets," he answered, grinning sleepily.

Lack of subtlety, that's how you beat magic.

A werewolf isn't supposed to have parents. Brenda said, grumbling. They're not supposed to have mothers. How am I supposed to shoot you now, knowing it'll upset that really nice woman?

He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push." He was such a lawyer.

What all the stories and romances don't say is that happily ever after doesn't just happen. You have to work at it. You have to keep working at it.

I don't like going into this with a half-baked plan." "It's not half-baked," I said. "It's mostly baked. Just a little soft in the middle." Actually, that was bravado.