Monique > Monique's Quotes

“She parked near the fence and took a deep breath. Curious, she did it
again, feeling her lungs expand, then contract. She sat in silence,
letting her body decide what to do next. Her lungs stayed still, but she
didn't feel as though she was suffocating.
“Yep, dead,” she whispered.”
― Rhiannon Frater, Pretty When She Dies

“Wow! I'm more of a badass than I thought.”
― Rhiannon Frater, The First Days

“She'd been questioning Jenni's sanity for a while now, but then again, they were all slightly insane now, weren't they?”
― Rhiannon Frater, The First Days

“So, basically, I'm risking my life because you pansies don't want to pick up tampons.”
― Rhiannon Frater, The First Days

“How did I become this monster…this creature that feasts on the blood of innocents?  I stare at my bloodstained dress and feel nothing but hatred for what I have done.  To know how callously I killed before and felt no regret, now pains me.  I killed before with no remorse.  But tonight…tonight, what I have done is unbearable. ”
― Rhiannon Frater, The Tale Of The Vampire Bride

“Red?" I asked.

"I've decided I'm going to call you Red from now on."

"All right, I'll bite - no pun intended. Why?"

He snickered in a very masculine way and lowered his voice. "'Cause I like the idea of the big bad wolf visiting you and Grandma.”
― Linda Robertson, Vicious Circle

“The way I figure it ... every red-blooded boy wants to make out with some hot heroine from the comic books. So, you could, you know, fulfill that dream for me. Please.”
― Linda Robertson

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel