Quotes About Identity

You don't have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

If fourteen people believe they were Cleopatra in a former life, does that mean that Cleopatra had split personality disorder?

We are all monsters here, he said. It's too late for any of us to be anything else.

Vampires did the one-name thing before Madonna and Prince.

I like who I am - but there are plenty of men who wouldn't. (Mercy)

Want to explain to the kid that I'm more a Spike than a Buffy? A villain, not a superhero?

This frail cloth, a gift to the person he had once been, was his touchstone, a reminder that once he had been whole. Once there had been joy.

He'd have to call his brother, Samuel, and tell him that he'd finally learned that his face wouldn't crack if he smiled. All it had taken to teach him was an Omega werewolf.

The thought of herself as decoration was absurd.

Maybe leave it for the ugly thing that your pack's witch has become.

Are you not my daughter, whispered another voice, Coyote's voice

If you are going to use white man's words to describe yourself, 'avatar' is more accurate than 'walker.

identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

Mostly they just confused us with skinwalkers. Since walkers and skinwalkers are both Native American shapeshifters, I can sort of understand it. Especially since I'm pretty sure the walker label came from some dumb white person who couldn't tell the difference.

Want to explain to the kid that I'm more a Spike than a Buffy? A villain, not a superhero?

Hers. He was hers, whispered that part of her that didn't worry about human concerns. Whatever fears Anna had about the rapid changes in her life, her wolf half was very happy with the events of the past few days.

I am Elizaveta Arkadyevna Vyshnevetskaya, of house Kikimora. I can trace my bloodline a thousand years.

Samuel just feels that he no longer belongs, that he accomplishes nothing by his existence. Even the Omega cannot fix him.

And, as his father liked to say, identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

It was not a bad idea to remind your enemy of who you are.

half-breed Salish or Flathead.)

I don't like it when I outweigh my men.

That's a pretty lame superhero name," I told him. "Scooby-Doo is already taken," he said with dignity. "Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You're a wizard now; what you were before does not matter to me." "Yes, it does," Kim said softly. "Because part of the time you're sorry about it, and part of the time you think it makes me interesting, and part of the time you ignore it. But you never forget it.