Quotes from L.J. Smith

Okay, so she is crazy. I don't care. I think I love her.

It did cross our minds at one point.Actually it seemed to keep crossing them.Maybe we should put in a crosswalk. Ash

Mary-Lynnette had an inexplicable impulse to knock Ash flat and fall down on top of him. She'd never felt that for any boy before.

No, I'll dream another dream," he said. "I've made up so many things, now I'll just go into one. I'll be part of it.

She stood slim and proud as some medieval witch princess against dawn.

You can't tell me? You disappear one day without any kind of warning, without any kind of note...you leave the gang and me and just competely vanish and nobody know where to find you, not even your uncle...and now you appear again and now you can't tell me where you were?" He was working himself into one of his Extremely Excited States, Jez realised.

Well, she thought. Well, well. Here we are, probably for the first time, just talking to each other. Not arguing, not being sarcastic, just talking. It's nice. It was surprisingly nice. And the strange thing was, she knew Ash thought so, too. They understood each other. Over the table, Ash gave her a barely perceptible nod.

Cliff said "damn" for me (I'm going to die). I didn't know he liked me enough to swear.

And in the mean time I'll fight dragons, just like any knight for his lady.

He looked at her then, and she could see he wasn't afraid. "Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten," he said.

War and hunting and chasing-that's all there is. That's life, Jenny-no one can escape it.

en garde, Julian. It's not over till it's over.

Amazing how he could make her feel. Safe in a vacant lot, warm in the middle of the night. Just being this close to him, being able to touch his thoughts and feel his presence, was comforting-and dizzying.

He had been so many things. Seductive as silver and deadly as a cobra. And vulnerable like a hurt child underneath it all.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance. Poppy-and-James.

But where Katherine was a white kitten, Elena was a white tigress.

I can awaken things inside you that have been sleeping all your life. You're strong enough to live in the dark, to glory in it. You can become a queen of the shadows. Why not take that power, Elena? Let me help you take it.

You can't just go out- No, I'll dream another dream.

He turned the haggered, haunted face on her and said, "I want you to stop it." "Whatever you're doing....to try to make me like Pilar, it has to stop. Because it's not fair to her. She's upset right now because I'm acting crazy. But I don't want to be with her. It's you I love. And if you want to get rid of me, then tell me, but don't try to foist me off on somebody else.

Rumors spread fast, and they grow. I know. You want to either deny them, or disarm them

Poppy had known for years that she was going to marry him. It was one of her two great ambitions, the other being to see the world. She just hadn't gotten around to informing James yet.

The love she felt for Rob now was a burning tenderness, a knowledge that he was the one who'd taught he it was POSSIBLE to love, who had melted the ice of her heart. it was strong and gentile and steady, full of admiration and the intimacy of shared likes and dislikes. it was golden and warm like a summer afternoon.

I am what I want to be," he said. "You forgot that— and that was your mistake.

If, someday, Julian should be reborn, she wished him well.