Lilith Saintcrow > Quotes

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“I guess since the groin is the center of a guy's world, he rarely guesses it isn't the center of yours.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“So you're a dom, huh? Nice." I stabbed my pancakes again. "Kinky."

"You're the one who ties people up, babe.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Betrayals

“Now," Graves finally said, "anyone else want to piss me off? Anyone else think this is a goddamn democracy?”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Betrayals

“His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?"

I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Jesus, you've got a death wish."
"Right now I have a bathroom-and-sleep-somewhere safe wish, kid.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Night Shift

“What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, The Devil's Right Hand

“Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Betrayals

“What do you say when someone takes on a really bad ass, murdering sucker for you? There just aren't words for that.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots.

They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don’t live up to their snap judgments.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Hello, Officer? Can you help me? My dad got turned into a zombie. You know, we’ve been travelling around getting rid of things that aren’t real, and this time they hit back. I really need someplace to stay – but can you make sure I have some holy water or something wherever it is? And some silver-jacketed bullets? That’d be sweet. Yeah, that’d be totally cool. Thanks. And while you’re at it, can you tell the guys with the straitjackets that I’m really sane? That would help.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“The smell of apple pies didn't quite fill the house, but it was there, a thread under everything else. It was kind of hard to take Christophe seriously when he smelled like baked goods. I wondered if other djampjir smelled like Hostess Twinkies and sniggered to myself.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Go fuck yourself. Or get spayed. Either would an improvement.”
― Lilith Saintcrow

“Boys always get the best eyelashes; it's like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Are you listening, little bird?”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Betrayals

“He hadn't told me everything, but I'd left him for dead. I guess we were just about even.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want to put you into their little preordained slots. They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don’t live up to their snap judgements. That’s the only way the normal world’s like the Real – it all depends on who people think you are. Figure that out, play to what they expect, and it’s clear sailing.”
― Lilith Saintcrow

“I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting."

My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know, you're the second guy in a few days to call me that. You should be more creative.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“I got a washed out version of Mom’s curls and a better copy of Dad’s blue eyes, The rest of me, I guess, is up for grabs. Except maybe Gran’s nose, but she could have been trying to make me feel better. I’m no prize. Most girls go through a gawky stage, but I’m beginning to think mine will be a lifelong thing. It doesn’t bother me too much. Better to be strong than pretty and useless. I’ll take a plain girl with her head screwed on right over a cheerleader any day.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Graves scooched a little closer to me, and I didn't even think about it. I put my arms around him and hugged. I didn't care if it hurt my arm and my ribs and my neck and pretty much every other part of me, my heart most of all. When you're wrecked, that's the only thing to do, right? Hold onto whatever you can. Hold on hard.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Dru Anderson: Thanks.
Graves: No problem. First one’s free. Look, you really can’t go home? What happened.
Dru Anderson: You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.
Graves: Try me.
Dru Anderson: I just can’t go home, not until tomorrow.
Graves:Do you need a place to sleep?
Dru Anderson: I’ll find somewhere.
Graves: I know a place.
Dru Anderson: Why is it there’s always a guy who thinks he can get something out of the new girl? Every goddamn town, it’s the same thing. Some guy thinks he’s God’s gift to the displaced.
Graves: I just asked if you wanted a place to sleep, Jesus.
Dru Anderson: Sorry.
Graves: No problem. So, I’ll take you someplace you can sleep tonight. Someplace safe. Okay?
Dru Anderson: How much?
Graves: I keep telling you, first one’s free. You want to play some air hockey? Good way to get your mind off stuff.
Dru Anderson: Sure.
Graves: Cool. You finished?
Dru Anderson: Yeah, I guess. Graves?
Graves: Huh?
Dru Anderson: Thanks. Nice gloves.
Graves: Hey, you know. Chicks dig guys in gloves.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Almost sure wasn't good enough. Almost sure, in my experience, is the shortest road to oh fuck.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Dead Man Rising

“First you find out what you have , Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more. ”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Betrayals

“Who. Hit. You?”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Jealousy

“I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.”
― Lilith Saintcrow

“Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Betrayals

“I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Betrayals

“Graves: It’s going to snow.
Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning.
Graves: Hey, no problem. First one’s free.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Touch me again, and it will be your last act in life - Blue Eyes.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Jealousy

“And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made him even cuter. The bruising spreading up the side of his face had halted, and under it he was very pretty. Not jock-pretty, or the hurtful kind of pretty that tells you a guy is too busy taking care of his royal self to think about you.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Sometimes you meet a girl and it's like matter and antimatter. You just hate each other for no damn reason.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Jealousy

“First one's free.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Betrayals

“He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear. ”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Working for the Devil

“Other dads actually sat at the dinner table. Mine left me a fifty and a reminder to do my goddamn katas.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Working for the Devil

“What you can't run away from, you have to face”
― Lilith Saintcrow, The Devil's Right Hand

“Hi stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“And you know, I believed him.
What girl wouldn't?”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Betrayals

“It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe."
Anna's jaw actually dropped. For a moment, I wasn't sure if I should laugh or push him out of the room. Way to go, Graves.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Jealousy

“You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends."
Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.”
― Lilith Saintcrow

“Death did not play favorites—He loved all equally.
What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure .
The god's voice—not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind—”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Dead Man Rising

“I caught the look Benjamin gave me. "What?"
"Nothing. We just thought a svetocha would be more, well, difficult." Leon's mouth twitched. "I do seriously want a slushie."
I tried a tentative smile. I definitely liked him now. "I haven't had one in ages. Maybe the guys outside—the double blonds—would want one, too?"
For some reason Leon found that utterly fricking hysterical. He snorted and chuckled all the way through Housewares to the Health and Beauty section, and even Benjamin unbent enough to grin.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Jealousy

“The only one," he murmured. His chin dipped a little bit. "You know that, Dru? You're the only person who's ever believed in me. You know what that'll do to a guy?"

What?"I-"

"It makes him want to live up to it.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Reckoning

“I’m probably the only sixteen-year-old girl in a three hundred mile radius who knows how to distinguish between a poltergeist from an actual ghost (hint: If you can disrupt it with nitric acid, or if it throws new crap at you every time, it’s a poltergeist), or how to tell if a medium’s real or faking it (poke ‘em with a true iron needle). I know the six signs of a good occult store (Number One is the proprietor bolts the door before talking about Real Business) and the four things you never do when you’re in a bar with other people who know about the darker side of the world (don’t look weak). I know how to access public information and talk my way around clerks in courthouses (a smile and the right clothing will work wonders). I also know how to hack into newspaper files, police reports, and some kinds of government databases (primary rule: Don’t get caught. Duh).”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“His eyes were green chips of flame, and the growl was so thick it blurred the air around him, the sound of a very pissed off skinchanger.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Betrayals

“Can I…I mean, do you mind if I sleep up here? If you don't, I, um, understand. I just—"
"Yes." The word bolted out of me. "Yes, please. Maybe I'll be able to sleep if you're here.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Jealousy