"MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT."
— Patricia Briggs (Moon Called)

"You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I
called her that! My balls never recovered from her smashing them into my spine!"
— Jeaniene Frost (One Foot in the Grave)

"I love you. You have no idea what you are worth to me."
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)

"We're, ah, taking a break to evaluate things, and, um, reexamine our relationship, so I stuffed him in a closet!" I burst out in shame. Timmie's eyes goggled.
"Is he still there?""
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)

"I missed you every minute this week and I don't want to spend another day without you. If my mom disowns me for being with a vampire, then that's her decision, but I've made mine, and I won't apologize of back down from it."
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)

"When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred."
— Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room)

"He gave the body a final kick and then turned to face me.
“You and I need to talk, Kitten.”
“Now?” I asked in disbelief, gesturing to the dead vampire near his feet.
“It’s not like he’s going anywhere, so yeah. Now."
— Jeaniene Frost

"All I'm saying is that sooner of later, you'll have to come to terms with yourself. You can't wish away the vampire in you, and you shouldn't keep atoning for it. You should figure out who you a re and what you need, and then don't apologize for it. Not to me, to your mum, or to anyone."
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)

"Do you know what you’ve done?” I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me
an inquiring look. “You’ve gotten on my last nerve.”
The table went crashing into her before she could blink, and then my fist found a home in
her perfectly arranged hair."
— Jeaniene Frost (One Foot in the Grave)

"There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story."
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)

"Your mom can't hate a whole country because of one person!"
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)

"I pity the fool that never stopped to play and worked his life into the grave"
— D.C. Bussey

"Got any stock tips?” I couldn’t help but ask. “The government doesn’t pay shit for
salary."
— Jeaniene Frost (One Foot in the Grave)

"Shit. I hated her already, and we hadn’t even met."
— Jeaniene Frost (One Foot in the Grave)

"'My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, think I' turning my back on her and becoming a foreigner.'
'Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard.'"
— Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave)

"“Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you.”
“There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked
with heavy skepticism."
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)

" Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (pause) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said? "
— Samuel Beckett

"THE BODY
of
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Printer
like the cover of an old book,
its contents torn out,
and stripped of its lettering and gilding lies here, food for worms;
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will (as he believed) appear once more,
in a new,
and more beautiful edition,
corrected and amended
By The AUTHOR"
— Benjamin Franklin

"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'."
— Andy Warhol

"You chose to come to Paris, of all places,” Mencheres replied.
“So what? Got something against the French?”"
— Jeaniene Frost (Destined for an Early Grave)

"The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life."
— Sarah Ash

"Body is a home, a prison and a grave."
— James Runcie (The Colour of Heaven)

"Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality"
— Aphra Behn