Christopher Golden > Quotes

“I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sons of Entropy

“What is it with you and the Wizard of Oz references? Zombies and werewolves and vamps, oh my. Zombies and werewolves and...”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Halloween Rain

“The ugliest parts of history are the most important parts to remember.”
― Christopher Golden, Road of Bones

“We're all leaving now", Blue Eyes whispered to her. "Together. Out the front door. Scream, and we'll kill you here and now.
"Or later", Willow suggested nervously. "Later would be a big improvement on that idea. We could meet back here in, say, an hour, and you can exhibit your homicidal tendencies then, okay? That would be way better for us.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 2

“Xander Harris: Hair. Red. Red is good. Fire engines are red. Porsche's are red.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 2

“Yo, zombie guys, pay attention. When it's Simon says, that means you have to do what I say. Let's be more direct. The Slayer says die, like, forever.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 2

“She was the Slayer. Normal teen angst didn't stack up to fangs at your throat.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Halloween Rain

“...she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Halloween Rain

“Is your faith such a fragile thing that it can be so easily shattered?”
― Christopher Golden, Dragon Secrets

“Sometimes Drusilla forgot she was really there, a tangible creature and not some ghost of a memory, drifting about the world, only observing.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike and Dru - Pretty Maids All in a Row

“And that noise! It was enough to make that happy mailman on Mr. Rogers go postal!”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Halloween Rain; Bad Bargain; Afterimage v. 2

“He whispered, breaking the silence because he could no longer bear it, daring to make a noise because a whisper was better than a scream”
― Christopher Golden, Dragon Secrets

“There were things violence could solve—you couldn't be a soldier and not believe that—but this wasn't one of them.”
― Christopher Golden, Tin Men

“He had learned that sometimes there was no safe path, no decision from which one could emerge unscathed. In those cases, he had been taught to take the path of honor, even if it led to pain or death”
― Christopher Golden, Alien: River of Pain

“Whatever solace TJ Farrelly sought, he would have to find it on his own. She had racked her brain until she had realized the truth: she had none to give.”
― Christopher Golden, Snowblind

“Good!” Ripley said, standing again. She was tall, imposing, and she liked the way a couple of the guys winced a little when she shouted. “That’s because I blew it out of the airlock.”
― Christopher Golden, Alien: River of Pain

“why would you think such a dangerous endeavor would be fun?”
― Christopher Golden, Dragon Secrets

“Millions of people around the world learned to speak English as a second or third language, or sixth, and fluently. He’d always thought they envied his country, maybe wanted to live there, but now he wondered if they just liked English-language movies and TV shows. And maybe, just maybe, they learned English because most English speakers were too lazy or arrogant to become proficient in other languages.”
― Christopher Golden, Road of Bones

“Only tragedies arrived with such urgency in the small hours before dawn.”
― Christopher Golden, Road of Bones

“the real world.”
― Christopher Golden, Sons of Anarchy: Bratva

“Nothing in these woods could be more dreadful, more terrifying, than the selfish cruelty of ordinary people.”
― Christopher Golden, All Hallows

“I have a life, goddamit. One life. I've seen too many people give theirs up, to drugs or suicide or even depression... fuck, even just lazinesss. I've seen lives wasted.
I'll be damned if I'm going to waste mine.”
― Christopher Golden, Of Masques and Martyrs

“The dream dissipated like smoke, and she tried so hard to hold it inside her heart and her memory, but like all dreams, it had never been meant to keep.”
― Christopher Golden, Snowblind

“Humans, it seemed, were like cockroaches. Determined enough, they could thrive anywhere.”
― Christopher Golden, Road of Bones

“Whoever had given LV-426 its new name had”
― Christopher Golden, Alien: River of Pain

“Whatever people give you, give it back to them times ten. Be ready, always, to take everything to the next level. Someone's nice to you, make it your job to improve their day, give them a laugh or a pat on the back. But someone comes at you with attitude, or looking for a fight, you drop the fuckin' sky on their heads. Be ready either way, every day.”
― Christopher Golden, Road of Bones

“What about her?" asked the one Xander had burned with holy water.
"Leave her," said another. "She isn't as important as the others. And if we took her and didn't kill her ... I think she might annoy me to death",
Too frightened to be insulted, Cordelia watched them move away.
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― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sins of the Father

“Sex makes me the kind of happy that I usually only manage to be in dreams.”
― Christopher Golden, Snowblind

“Dammit, that’s not all!” Ripley shouted. She couldn’t get through to them. Could they not see? Could they not understand? “’ Cause if one of those things gets down here, that will be all, and this…” She grabbed the papers, copies of her deposition, evidence sheets. “This bullshit that you think is so important… you can kiss all that goodbye!”
― Christopher Golden, Alien: River of Pain

“In the dark, full of fear, fighting for life, the human mind could slip into pure instinct.”
― Christopher Golden, Road of Bones