Vivian Vande Velde > Quotes

“If you don't like vampire games, don't play”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Companions of the Night

“She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important."
Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi- much less try to develop a meaningful relationship- since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Heir Apparent

“They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Heir Apparent

“There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Heir Apparent

“Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Cloaked in Red

“if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Heir Apparent

“Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Being Dead

“People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Being Dead

“Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Heir Apparent

“And there was this sweet-looking little old lady with her white hair in a bun and everything, the typical grandmother type, and she was swearing her head off. I guess Alzheimer's had brought out her inner sailor.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Remembering Raquel