"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?"
— Jerry Seinfeld

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Claire. Wake up.” She blinked and realized that her head was on Shane’s shoulder, and Michael was nowhere to be seen. Her first thought was, Oh my God, am I drooling? Her second was that she hadn’t realized she was so close to him, snuggled in. Her third was that although Michael’s part of the couch was empty, Shane hadn’t moved away. And he was watching her with warm, friendly eyes. Oh. Oh, wow, that was nice."
— Rachel Caine (Glass Houses)

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
— Winston S. Churchill

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

""It's not because I want to make out with her."
"Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"I lifted my face to meet the kiss, wanting the comfort of his touch as much as I was willing to provide the comfort of mine. The contact was sweet and soft, yet at the same time desperate.

It was Zane who pulled away first. "Danica, I think..." He trailed off and kissed me again, this time briefly, just the barest touch of lips to lips. "I love you."

From a man who frequently uttered eloquent speeches, the tentative declaration was not the most flattering of compliments-especially when every movement he made and look he cast my way had shown the long truth before now.

But coming from the serpent who had once informed me that he did not love me and did not think he ever could, whose cool, polished words could cut to the bone and freeze the Earth's frozen molten blood-whose eyes right now were just a bid dazed, and whose expression was as open and startled as I had ever seen it-the words were more than enough.

"I know," I answered. Then, soft but certain, I answered, "I love you too."

His smile matched mine and said the same as mine: I know.

"
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (Hawksong)

"Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"But you can't kill humans It's--
Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark."
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

"A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty."
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

"Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare." "
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (Demon in My View)

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed."
— Rachel Caine

"Why me?" she asked, holding on to him.

"Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen."
— Annette Curtis Klause (Blood and Chocolate)

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
— Phyllis Diller

"those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hidebecause the night is dark"
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (In the Forests of the Night)

"Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. "
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (In the Forests of the Night)

"Perv."
He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?"
— Rachel Caine (Midnight Alley)

""If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly." The Flirt (pg 288)

"
— Kathleen Tessaro (The Flirt)

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.
-Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)"
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

"Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane"
— Rachel Caine (Glass Houses)

"He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough."
— Annette Curtis Klause (Blood and Chocolate)

"Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now...."
— Nora Roberts (The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex)

"He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs."
— Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

"Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting."
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (Demon in My View)

"My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy."
— William Shakespeare

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"'I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.'"
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (Shattered Mirror)

"'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,'Aubrey. I will avenge this scar and every scar you have put into my heart.
-Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)"
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

"I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days."
— Jon Stewart

""And the rain is brain colored, and the thunder sounds like somthing rembering somthing.""
— Stan Rice

"Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease,
so bend. The sun is in the tree.
Put your mouth on mine. Bend down
beam & slash, for Dread is dreamed-up-scenes
of what comes after death. Is being
fled from what bends down in pain.
The elbow bends in the brain, lifts the cup.
The worst is yet to dream you up,
so bend down the intrigue
you dreamed. Flee the hayneedle in the brain's
tree.
Excess allures by leaps. Stars burn clean. Oriole bitches and gleams. Dread is the fear of being
less
forever. So bend. Bend down and kiss
what you see."
— Stan Rice

"THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. We are here to help you.
2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings.
3. The dress code will be enforced.
4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds.
5. Our football team will win the championship this year.
6. We expect more of you here.
7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen.
8. Your schedule was created with you in mind.
9. Your locker combination is private.
10. These will be the years you look back on fondly.

TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. You will use algebra in your adult lives.
2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away.
3. Students must stay on campus during lunch.
4. The new text books will arrive any day now.
5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores.
6. We are enforcing the dress code.
7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon.
8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals.
9. There is nothing wrong with summer school.
10. We want to hear what you have to say."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

""Let me be what I am, and seek not to alter me.""
— Shakespeare

"Procrastinate now. Don't put it off."
— Ellen DeGeneres

"Smile, you never know who is falling in love with it"
— not known

""That was the goth stage, where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention my hairstyle. (pause)But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a boy,it means she likes him.""
— Lisa McMann (Wake)

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
— Groucho Marx

"So did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)