Pippa DaCosta > Pippa's Quotes

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. 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.”
― Steve Jobs

“Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying.
Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.”
― Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You were a crushed and broken thing, like a butterfly crumpled in the hand of a child.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Beyond the Veil

“Get off that damn chair and pull yourself together. You're supposed to be an ageless creature of chaos and all I'm getting right now is sulking city boy.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“I pity any man, demon or otherwise, foolish enough to believe he owns you.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Oh, you're good."

Akil narrowed his eyes. "You must have me confused with another sociopathic demon.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“But if you cross me again Akil, so-help-me, I’ll find a way to kill you this time.”

His eyes lit up at the prospect, as though he’d accepted a challenge I didn’t even know I’d laid down. “I’d expect nothing less.”

Demons; only they can get a cheap thrill from a death threat.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“I'm just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm."

Akil tasted his wine and smiled. "Muse, you are the storm.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.”
― Marianne Williamson

“The lust for chaos wrenched reason from my mind. She wanted the power I’d called before. She wanted to burn it all; to slice open the veil and summon the fires of hell to dance for her. She burned for it, and so did I." ~ Muse”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“There ain't no happy endings for half-bloods." Ryder ~ Darkest Before Dawn #3 The Veil Series”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real." Muse.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Half demon, half human, wholly f*cked." ~ Muse”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Sometimes there is no right thing. Sometimes wrong wins, and that's okay. Life doesn't have cooker-cutters for right and wrong, Ryder. There's that messy gray area in between, and I sure hope I'm not the one staring down the barrel of your gun when you figure that out." Muse ~ Darkest Before Dawn. #3 The Veil Series”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Tybalt’s what we call ‘Cait Sidhe’— the fairy cats. Which explains the attitude. And the eyes.”

“Meow,” said Tybalt, deadpan.”
― Seanan McGuire, Ashes of Honor

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“Can I quote myself...? Oh wait, I think I just did.”
― Scarlett Finn

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― Bob Marley

“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.”
― Richard Castle

“People are dying out there, and I’m not faring much better.”

“Worrying about the demise of anonymous people won’t bring them back.”

Pursing my lips, I planted a hand on a hip. “How very demon of you.”

“Thank you.”

“That wasn’t a compliment.”

~ Muse & Akil”
― Pippa DaCosta, Drowning In The Dark

“I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.”
― Jeaniene Frost, This Side of the Grave

“Akil, humans have these wonderful little things we like to cling onto, called souls. The jury’s still out as to whether demons have them, I sincerely doubt you do." ~ Muse.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Drowning In The Dark

“You with the tentacles, you're nicked!”
― Paul Cornell, London Falling

“You’re impossible. You’re a murdering son-of-a-bitch. You get off on pain and control and fucking up peoples’ lives. You lie through your teeth. You wouldn’t know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls.” ~ Muse to Akil”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn

“Only a few hairline fractures around his eyes and lips spoke of the torment he’d been through. I wanted to smooth those lines away, and wished it was that easy to erase the scars of our past." ~ Muse, Drowning In The Dark #4 The Veil Series.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Drowning In The Dark

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“I was the proverbial child raised by wolves, only my wolves were demons. Wolves would have been kinder.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Devil May Care

“Akil’s sexy-as-sin picture could be plastered all over the tabloids. He wouldn’t like that. His halo would slip in the eyes of the Boston public. Never mind that his tarnished halo hung on devil horns.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn