Oliver Quotes

“Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice?
Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.”
― Rachel Caine, Midnight Alley

“Are you armed?" Oliver asked her.
She glanced down at her backpack and instantly, instinctively held back. "No."
"Lie to me again and I'll put you out on the street and do this myself."
Claire swallowed. "Uh, yeah."
"With what?"
"Silver-coated stakes, wooden stakes, a crossbow, about ten bolts . . . oh, and a squirt gun with some silver-nitrate solution."
He smiled grimly at the dark windshield. "What, no grenade launchers?"
"Would they work?"
"I choose not to comment.”
― Rachel Caine, Ghost Town

“Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy

“Welcome to Morganville.You'll never want to leave.And even if you do...well, you can't. Sorry about that.”
― Rachel Caine

“Hadley grabs the laminated safety instructions from the seat pocket in front of her and frowns at the cartoon men and women who seem weirdly delighted to be bailing out of a series of cartoon planes. Beside her, Oliver stifles a laugh, and she glances up again.
“What?”
“I’ve just never seen anyone actually read one of those things before,”
“Well,” she says, “then you’re very lucky to be sitting next to me.”
“Just in general?”
She grins. “Well, particularly in case of an emergency.”
“Right,” he says. “I feel incredibly safe. When I’m knocked unconscious by my tray table during some sort of emergency landing, I can’t wait to see all five-foot-nothing of you carry me out of here.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“I know many lives worth living.”
― Mary Oliver

“Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said.
"You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin.
She's interesting when she's forthright."
Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.”
― Rachel Caine, Ghost Town

“Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a
disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.”
― Rachel Caine, Kiss of Death

“She wanted to lunge over and kiss him. Well, ew, not really, maybe a hug. Or a hanshake.
Claire about Oliver”
― Rachel Caine, Ghost Town

“What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“This,” James said, when he had disappeared. “This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeit of our own behavior—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars … as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc’d obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting-on!”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?"

"Because you can always count on a book to stay the same. EVerything else changes when you least expect it," she replies, bitter. "Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“You sound disappointed.” Shane’s voice came out faint and thready, and he put his head back against the cushions as he squeezed his eyes shut. “Damn, I hate this. I really do.”


I know,” Oliver said. “Your blood reeks of it.”
― Rachel Caine, Last Breath

“He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. “I really must get a new supplier. This tea is pathetic. America just doesn’t understand tea at all.”
― Rachel Caine, The Dead Girls' Dance

“Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.”
― Rachel Caine, Last Breath

“She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.”
― Rachel Caine, Midnight Alley

“My boyfriend is a vampire and I'm okay with it. - Laney”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles, Laney

“Laney, I love you. I've found everything I've ever needed and wanted with you. I'm nothing without you.- Oliver”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles, Laney

“She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the book and I see her face, I can barely remember what I'm supposed to say, much less how to speak at all." I test the words on my tongue. "I think I might be in love with her. But how can I really know, since the only love I've ever experienced was written for me?”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“What are you doing a study on right now?"

"A study on the statistical probablity of love at first sight.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. “You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, I’m not the great love of his life, the one he’ll never forget.”
“You are to me,” I say.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Was he hungry? He'd had an enormous breakfast, but the transition from the glimpse had taken a lot out of him. Did they serve lunch in Hell? Should he have packed a snack? Why was he suddenly thinking about food?”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Lost in Time

“A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.”
― Oliver Butterworth, The Enormous Egg

“Theres something alluring and dangerous about him, but comforting and protective. When I think about him, my stomach knots, my heart rate quickens and...and I could go on... -Laney”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles, Laney

“That morning, she had found an envelope stuffed into her locker. It was from the Mercer Hotel, and held a plastic door key for their suite. "See you there tonight," Oliver had written. "Chomp! Chomp!”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Masquerade

“Huh, a lovers quarrel with a vampire- seems like a fantastic idea!”
― Joann I. Martin Sowles

“In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.”
― Jodi Picoult

“Do you ever wish, Alexis, that your heart was just that little bit smaller, so that you didn't have to care quite so much?”
― L.H. Cosway, King of Hearts

“It's easy to think you love someone when the person you really want isn't there for you, at least not physically”
― Morgan Parker, Non Friction

“Oliver...'
'What?'
'I do like you.'
'But?'
'I just don't want you to think that I'm... that is, I'm really not looking for...'
'Hey.' I could hear the faint smile in his voice. 'It's a book, not an etching.”
― Susanna Kearsley