Dark Currents Quotes

“By the way, if you're ever conversing with an actual vampire, do not refer to the House of Shadows as Twilight Manor. There's a reason vampires aren't known for their senses of humour.

If you accidentally do so, I'd say run, but it's probably already too late.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“There's some sort of Soothsayers' Code that prevents soothsayers from soothsaying on a day-to-day basis, when it might, you know, avert this kind of ordinary, everyday tragedy. Something about the laws of causality being broken and the order of creation overturned, resulting in a world run amok, river running backwards, the run rising in the west, cats and dogs getting married...

I don't know; don't ask me.

I don't pretend to understand (...) But I guess it didn't rise to the standard required to break the Soothsayers' Code since no sooth was said.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“Envy and anger, two of the Seven Deadlies. I could feel them coiling deliciously in my gut, wanting to rise and consume me.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“Despair is a passion unto itself, Daisy,” he said softly. “Do not doubt it.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“You should embrace your freedom, my lady. Lay down your long burden. You belong to the world of the living. Return to it.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“How is my favorite little eschatological time bomb?”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“It, too, was empty. You might think that would be a given at this hour, but the preserve was a favorite haunt of birdwatchers, and those people are crazy.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“Life goes on even at the worst of times, and there are some ways no one ever grows up, no matter how long they live or how many lifetimes”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“There are worse things in the world than heartbreak. Finding that out is a rite of passage.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“Ray bent his head toward her, and they smiled at each other, a pair of blissful ghouls in love.

I might have felt sorry for them if the continued existence of their relationship didn't necessitate generating incredible amounts of anguish and misery, which I was apparently next in line to provide.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“Your goddamn bloodsucking boyfriend's been promising to change you for eight years!" Jen said grimly. "Wake up and smell the plasma, Beth!”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“Hey, sister buzz-kill," she said languorously to Jen. "What crawled up your ass and died?"
"I don't know," Jen retorted. "What died and crawled up your ass?"

There were times I regretted being an only child. This wasn't one of them.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents

“I eyed him. "Are you really Jamaican?"
He returned my gaze evenly. "Why do you think I'm not, sistah?"

"I don't know," I said. "I have to admit, pretty much everything I know about Jamaica comes from watching Cool Runnings, and I'm guessing a Disney movie about Olympic bobsledders isn't the most accurate reference material.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Dark Currents