Christina Dodd > Christina's Quotes

“All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his.”
― Christina Dodd, Virtue Falls

“For as long as I could remember, I had always been the girl who had watched her father kill her mother.”
― Christina Dodd, Virtue Falls

“Elizabeth understood as she never had before. Everyone, all of them had lived secure in the belief that the earth was stable, unchanging, eternal.
Now no one could trust the ground beneath their feet.
Yes, the earthquake was the story of destruction, but not just of things. An earthquake destroyed security. It destroyed complacency. It changed the people who lived through it.”
― Christina Dodd, Virtue Falls

“It was like living with a bad action movie, all excitement and motion, and no character development.”
― Christina Dodd, Virtue Falls

“No matter how they fought they had always been like this: balanced between anger and passion, between hurt and glory.
When they first got together, she didn't understand how two people who had so little in common could be so madly, passionately in love.
When they split, she had realized madness and passion could never keep a couple together.”
― Christina Dodd

“They hit a pothole deep enough to make her teeth snap together, and she burst out, "This road reminds me of my life. It's going somewhere familiar, but every time I look up, there's a new obstacle to jump, another hole to fall in.”
― Christina Dodd, Virtue Falls

“When I break a rock open with my pick, I'm a prophet. I see the past. I see the future. I know where the world is going, and where it's been. And I always, always want to know more.”
― Christina Dodd, Virtue Falls

“I realized my sorrow, the regret of a restless, doomed spirit, rang in my voice. For the first time I wondered if my fate was to helplessly watch violence until I became as mad as the men who committed the murders.”
― Christina Dodd, Love Never Dies

“Areila walked like she had somewhere to go. I stood by the fountain and watched her pass, but I didn't speak. It was the lady's prerogative to pretend she didn't see me. She got to the edge of the park; I swear, her foot hovered right over the line, when she turned with military precision and marched back. She stopped in front of me and said, "Hello.”
― Christina Dodd, Love Never Dies

“So you know you're a ghost?"
I looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. "Can you think of another explanation?”
― Christina Dodd, Love Never Dies

“The tears I feel today
I'll wait to shed tomorrow.
Though I'll not sleep this night
Nor find surcease from sorrow.
My eyes must keep their sight:
I dare not be tear-blinded.
I must be free to talk
Not choked with grief, clear-minded.
My mouth cannot betray
The anguish that I know.
Yes, I'll keep my tears til later:
But my grief will never go.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“In the end, dying isn’t the hard part. Everyone always treats death like it’s such a traumatic ordeal. But death is quiet and unless it happens instantaneously, it comes up to you like an old friend and wraps itself around you and just holds you there. It cradles you as you let your fear envelope you and burn through you. But you can only struggle against the inevitable for so long, and once you get over the panic and accept what’s happening to you, it’s actually almost kind of pleasant.

No…death isn’t hard.

Living, however…now that’s the real ass-kicker.”
― Kimberly Gourgon, Anomaly

“So you know you're a ghost?"
I looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. "Can you think of another explanation?”
― Christina Dodd, Love Never Dies

“I've been dead over seventy years and still when I hear a woman scream, I find myself standing, listening, wanting to help and unable to do anything except watch.”
― Christina Dodd, Love Never Dies

“She was no longer a coward, forcing bravery from herself—she was brave. “You’re not going to kill me,” she said, and with swift impatience, she jabbed her elbow in his gut.”
― Christina Dodd, Castles In The Air

“Saura nodded, bemused by the code of ethics that allowed for murder and kidnapping but balked at a lady touching a lord outside of the state of wedlock.”
― Christina Dodd, Candle in the Window

“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”
― Coco Chanel

“I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish - just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer, Eliza. And conquer it you will.”
― George Bernard Shaw, My Fair Lady

“Toast? Multigrain or sourdough?”
Deputy Dave poured himself a cup of coffee and sat. “I’d rather have sourdough, but my wife has me on a strict diet of whole grain. I eat so much fiber I could pass wicker furniture.”
― Christina Dodd, Point Last Seen

“Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“The world has changed.
I see it in the water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Then, because he’s a guy, and unhappy, crying women make him uncomfortable, he lifted his leg and farted.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“Think of yourself as a blade that has been fired, pounded, folded, shaped, and slowly cooled. You have strength. You have an edge. It’s not the weapon you hold in your hand that matters. You are the weapon.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“Woe, for ruin is now my middle name.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“I remember what happened twenty years ago, Romeo. I was in that tomb, remember? I thought you were dead and stabbed myself for love. I have the scar to prove it!”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“From their lips words spring like butterflies, ascend toward the cosmos, and drop tiny turds on your shoulders?”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“There are no complexities of womanhood. Every woman is complex in herself, as is each man.”
― Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona

“The true lesson of Romeo and Juliet in the tomb is that it's not that easy to get rid of a Montague or a Capulet, and I'm both.”
― Christina Dodd, Thus With a Kiss I Die