Cassandra Lawson > Cassandra's Quotes

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I'll bet you could make a woman throw out all her toys”
― Larissa Ione, Pleasure Unbound

“Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.”
― John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

“Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that.
- T-shirt”
― Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

“Maybe I needed sensitivity training. I once signed up for an anger management class, but the instructor pissed me off.”
― Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

“Can I jump in your body and make out with my wife through you?”
I fought a grin. “It doesn’t really work that way.”
“Then can you just make out with my wife and pretend I’m in your body?”
“No.”
“I can pay. I have money.”
“How much we talking?”
― Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

“Claire "The Elysian Fields Guest House? Why didn't he just call it the Vestibule to Hell?"
Dean "Because that would be bad for business?"
From Summon the Keeper”
― Tanya Huff

“Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse

“one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Obsidian Butterfly

“Hey, wait," I said, pulling back, "you are the son of Satan. Maybe we need a safe word."

His grin morphed into something wickedly charming. "Okay, how about, 'Oh, my god, it's so big.'"

Laughter burst out of me before I could stop it. Not that it wasn't. "That would be a safe phrase, but okay." I thought about it, then said, "How about 'Is that all you've got?”
― Darynda Jones, Fifth Grave Past the Light

“I was just passing by. Saw the commotion. Figured you were involved.”
― Darynda Jones, Fifth Grave Past the Light

“I gaze into his gazing eyes gazingly like a gazelle gazing into another gazelle's gazing gaze.”
― Fanny Merkin, Fifty Shames of Earl Grey

“I walk through the glass doors and into the lobby, which is floor-to-ceiling glass and steel. This fascinates me to no end, because buildings back in Portland are made of grass and mud.”
― Fanny Merkin, Fifty Shames of Earl Grey

“I stare at her blankly. We don't have elevators in Portland. "This is my first elevator ride. How do they work exactly?”
― Fanny Merkin, Fifty Shames of Earl Grey

“...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush.

He needed to kill something.”
― Larissa Ione, Eternal Rider

“The problem with having evil minions is that minions are stupid.”
― Larissa Ione, Desire Unchained