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Quotes About Misunderstanding

My white friends were visibly distressed by that loud singer and drummer. One of my friends, whom I shall call Tara, leaned forward and whispered, "I hate Indians." My four other white friends gasped, but it took Tara a few moments to remember that she was sitting beside me, her Indian friend. She burst into tears and spent the rest of the night apologizing. "It's okay," I kept saying. But it wasn't. I was hurt, ashamed, and angry.
~ Sherman Alexie
Oh no, no, no! Are you going to suck my blood? (Amanda Do I look like a lawyer to you? (Kyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
What are you? (Danger) Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the 'I'm Acheron's Squire' part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is 'grabbing a burger at the Hard Rock' supposed to mean? (Julian) The Hard Rock Café is a restaurant. (Grace) You eat at a place that advertises its food is hard as a rock? (Julian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Clean it up, hell. Do you know how many cameras just caught your stunt-jump from upstairs? My mom now thinks you're on the drugs she suspects Kyrian sells. We're screwed. My life is toast. I'm about to get lectured about working for drug dealers…again. My mom, bless her heart, is so goofy, she doesn't even realize she works for bears. I'm so screwed. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hmmm, I bet you'd be really cute with hornays. Not that you're not cute right now, but you're a bit young. You're only what? Four in human years? Oh wait, that's wrong, isn't it? You ninety? (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Oh yeah, Scooby, it does. You and I have gone round many a day. I'm the reason you keep thinking you've had alien abductions. (Caleb)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No, no, no. This ain't right. I finally find a woman who'll actually let me into her place and you bring her home for you? Oh, please tell me you brought her home for you and not for me. You didn't pimp me out again, Wulf, did you? I swear I'll stake you in your sleep if you did. (Chris)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Are you two having some sort of strange human thing that you can't follow what I'm saying? (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
So who was she? (Vane) Why do you assume it was a female? (Fang) Didn't know you were fond of men. I'll file that under my special Fang folder. (Vane)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No. What part of 'no charity' have you missed?" – Cherise 'The part that said he couldn't eat.' – Nick
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Don't start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dammit, Vik. How can you not know what's wrong with this thing? Can't you commune with it or something? (Devyn) My name is not 'Dammit, Vik' and I find it ironic that you think I can commune with all metal beings when you can barely communicate your point of view to your own parents. And they birthed you. I did not give birth to this ship. Last time I checked, I was male and that would be impossible on a multitude of levels. (Vik)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ahhh, you two are special friends. Nick How do you mean? Kyrian He thinks we're a couple Ash No No No Definitely not. Not that Acheron is not an attractive man, not that I've ever really noticed whether or not he's attractive, but male is not my type. Kyrian
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
She thinks I'm a drug dealer. (Chris) 'The most "illegal" thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus, once, without dropping money into the kettle.' (Wulf)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You mean you don't know? (Wulf) No. In fact, I'm thinking right now that one, if not both of us, needs to put down the crack pipe and start this night over. (Cassandra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Is my andarion rusty or did he just call us the ass of a dung beetle
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I take it you didn't get the permits...again. (Brian) What was your first clue? (Geary) Oh, I don't know. That stomping stance as you walked down the street, clenching and unclenching your fists like you're already choking someone, or maybe it's that way you're looking at me like you could claw out my eyes when I haven't done anything to piss you off. (Brian) Yes, you have. (Geary) And that is? (Brian) You don't have a gun. (Geary)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem! Nick
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Then why are we being shot at? (Syd) 'Cause the sonofabitch can't tell time. (Steele)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Aunt Artie? - Why do you keep saying it like that? We loved each other more than anything. I can't imagine we could be different in your world.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Does this mean you made a decision? (Carlos) No, I took my clothes off and came in here to tell you I wasn't going to make love with you. To use your words, 'for someone so intelligent, you can be pretty dense.' (Gabrielle)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Do you own anything not pink? I have a purple razor if you'd rather. Please. She pulled out a darker pink one. That's not purple, Talon said. It's pink too.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon