The Blood Countess Quotes

“This is important, Your Honor, because it establishes the fact that language, like blood, is a living thing that proceeds forward in time.”
― Andrei Codrescu, The Blood Countess

“Death is not enough for such men. We must add mechanics”
― Andrei Codrescu, The Blood Countess

“Our ancestors had fought and murdered one another, married and forged alliances, founded countries. At their best - but only for selfish reasons - they patronized art, literature, and music. But their worlds had to be overthrown by revolutions, because there was room in them only for themselves.”
― Andrei Codrescu, The Blood Countess

“I knew there was something holding me here. It wasn't paprikash. Or nostalgia for my meager childhood...

...Somewhere in me a nearly voiceless child was asking to know the rest of the story that had been interrupted.”
― Andrei Codrescu, The Blood Countess

“This concludes the story of my youth, Your Honor. I hope that you can see that I have been swayed since my birth by forces that are poorly countered with reason.”
― Andrei Codrescu, The Blood Countess: A Novel

“The Hungarian language, Magyar, resembles Finnish, Your Honor, though its lack of vowels could be attributed to them having been snatched by the wind when the horse-mounted nomad warriors shouted to one another. Allow me to quote Illirio Tepius, a Byzantine traveler, who wrote in 1232 that “when Hungarians speak, there is a windlike whistle that propels the words forward, as if they never dismounted.”
― Andrei Codrescu, The Blood Countess: A Novel

“But if the story had been true, Klaus would have doubtlessly been executed by the Soviets after the revolt. But here he was now, decades later, unexecuted and beaming evil rays out of my TV.”
― Andrei Codrescu, The Blood Countess: A Novel