Raven > Raven's Quotes

“A lot of his songs, when they started out, sounded like old music. They arrived on his doorstep, wandering orphans, the lost children of large and venerable musical families. They came to him in the form of Tin Pan Alley sing-alongs, honky-tonk blues, Dust Bowl plaints, lost Chuck Berry riffs. Jude dressed them in black and taught them to scream.”
― Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

“I thought you'd be better at this."
"Why?"
Bridget shrugged. "'Cause your dad's a cop."
"Right," Matt said, shifting his body so he wasn't blocking the light. "Why wouldn't he teach me Breaking and Entering 101?"
Bridget stifled a yawn. "Might be helpful now."
"Patience, grasshopper." Matt inserted a second metal prong into the lock. "I know a few tricks."
Bridget heard a soft click, and Matt raised his eyebrows in an unspoken "I told you so" before twisting the handle. The door swung open.
"Slick, MacGyver," Bridget whispered, patting him on the head. "Remind me to give you a cookie.”
― Gretchen McNeil, Possess

“Yes. Smashing. You’ll be just like those four chaps in the movie. You know the one, with the oversized marshmallow.”
― Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood

“Land of the Dead? Is that what you dream about?” she asks. “Boy who kills ghosts for a living?”
“No. I dream about penguins doing bridge construction. Don’t ask why.”
― Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood

“Every time I question him about the feasibility, he smiles at me like he's Yoda and I'm just a dumbass without the Force.”
― Kendare Blake, Girl of Nightmares

“Excuse me if I feel skeptical,' I said. 'Coach's foot fell off. How exactly do you propose to cure that? Superglue?”
― Carrie Harris, Bad Taste in Boys

“And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Name of the Star

“I was generally pro-bat, except when I was trekking through the dark trying not to think about the dire fate of every horror movie character stupid enough to go into the dark with a flashlight and check the fuses.”
― Rosemary Clement-Moore, Texas Gothic

“I watch him with amusement. There’s a blue light special on territorial jocks in aisle four.”
― Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood

“The true freaks are the ones who don't believe, the narrow-minded people who have no faith, who can't see what's right in front of their eyes.”
― Kristi Cook, Haven

“In the sixth row of the theater, in the third chair in, Anna winks at me. Or maybe she just blinks. I can't tell. She's missing half of her face.”
― Kendare Blake, Girl of Nightmares

“Want to dance? We have music this time. And I don't have to punch you when we finish.”
― Amy Tintera

“It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

“I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge”
― Preston and Child

“Most people are about as aware of their surroundings as a sea cucumber.”
― Douglas Preston, Blue Labyrinth