Quotes from Carrie Vaughn

cope or go crazy

I started a new page and wrote a title at the top: "Ten Ways to Defeat Macho Dickheadism." Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I could defeat that I could save the world.

It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!

Damn stupid vampires and their stupid sense of stupid superiority-

Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?" "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.

Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot to take over the world?" "I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia making corrections to the entries of historical figures I've known." I blinked at him. "Really?" "No, Kitty. That was a joke.

I looked at my two wolves. When I knelt they came to me rubbed against me smelling me and I stroked them. "Thank you for believing in me " I said and maybe they understood and maybe they didn't.

Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.

We're werewolves. We don't get to judge 'crazy.

To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word.

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday

It doesn't bother you that your canine brethren are being paraded around show rings like slaves?" "My canine brethren?" I said. "I don'thave any canine brethren." "How can you say that! You're a werewolf." "That's right. I'm a werewolf, not a poodle. What makes you think I have any kinship with dogs?

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

I was born on Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento, but we moved around a lot.

Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels.