Hot for Slayer Quotes

“I might not remember my name, or anything about who I am. But I could never be near you and not know exactly what you are to me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“I know your smell. I know your skin. Your hair. It’s all familiar. I have it all memorized. And I dream of you—of this. So many dreams, all so different, we must have done it a million times, in a million different ways. Tell me what you’re hiding from me, let’s get this over with, and then let’s do it a million more times.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“Aethelthryth, nothing would make me happier than having you with me here, or in any other place that I will call home, for as long as I live. Please, come in.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“Some lives run invisibly. Undetected by most. And when a person comes along who sees those lives for what they are, who acknowledges their reality, who reminds people that there is value in different ways of existing . . . A minute of that is worth more than a thousand nights with a lover. Wouldn’t you agree?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“As long as you don’t let anyone get to you before I do, Aethelthryth.” “Oh, don’t worry. I’ll always save myself for you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“Vampires suck—no pun intended—”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“Sorry, Lazlo. But they never pledged to maul me and eradicate my people, so they deserved the tarts that pop more than you do.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“The abbess once told me that the real problems are rarely the ones we spend our time worrying about.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“My job is to run from you. As you can probably imagine, this puts us at odds, even more so because you’re not the type to half-ass anything. In fact, you want to kill me so bad, you just stopped someone else so that you’d be the one to do the honors. Frankly, I admire your commitment.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“Today, nearly thirty-six years after that night in Germany, his arms wrap tight around me, his body is a heavy blanket above mine, and his only purpose seems to be shielding me from the sunlight. Today, Lazlo Enyedi saved my life.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“Aethelthryth. At last, we meet again.” I beamed up, hoping that it would irritate him. “Hey, friend.” We weren’t friends, not by any correct meaning of the word. But, as much as it pained me to admit it, I did have a bit of a parasocial relationship going on with him,”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“We both sleep on the couch,” he declares. “Together.” “We can’t sleep together.” “Are there laws against it?” “No.” “Then we sleep together.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“what’s a girl to do when the only constant presence during the last millennium of her life has been a guy who’s contractually mandated to murder her?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“He sighs deeply, as though my inability to read his mind is an inconvenience, but one he will try to deal with out of the grace of his heart.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“My motto is: If I have to suck someone dry every few weeks, why not make it a Goldman Sachs executive?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“It was one-sided,” he tells me after he’s done chewing. “From you.” “What?” “The dislike.” “I assure you, it was not.” “And I assure you, when I look at you, I feel anything but that.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“What a time to be undead.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“I spend the next two hours teaching a vampire slayer who was created to wipe out my bloodline how to correctly fill in a sudoku grid. He’s not at all bad at it, and I hate to acknowledge it.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“When he noticed my eyes on him, he lifted the blade up to his face. And with a smile that did not feel like a smile, he began to lick it clean of my blood. It was . . . Well. It just was.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“Suddenly, stepping inside feels dangerous for a whole new set of reasons. I do it anyway.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“I don’t think here is the best location to do this.” “Where, then?” “I have a place.” “Here? In New York?” He nods. “Where?” His smile is small and wistful. “Across from yours, actually.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“Something that jumps from me to him, that flows from him to me. A current, a heat, a moment of confusion and deluge that clogs my senses, and . . .”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“I frown. “Why don’t you believe me? We deeply dislike each other.” “Maybe you don’t like me, because I clearly . . .” He stops. Shakes his head. Declares, as though the truth exists only to be molded by his words: “We aren’t nemeses. I don’t want to fight with you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“I can make my own meaning. I can find my own joy. But there is a different kind of happiness in this companionship. A sense of something coming. Like the breeze picking up before a storm.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“I watched you, and your simple, mundane acts of kindness. They were small, but they made all the difference for those who received them.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“When he noticed my eyes on him, he lifted the blade up to his face. And with a smile that did not feel like a smile, he began to lick it clean of my blood.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“Out of curiosity,” I ask, peeved, “what else does ‘a man just know about himself’ despite a dire case of sudden-onset global amnesia? The date of his last colonoscopy? The best brand of jigsaw? How to build a ham radio— What the hell are you—”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“Ethel, since the very second I regained consciousness, I have been very alert to my surroundings. Perhaps too alert, if you take my meaning.” “I’m not sure I do.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“Weird. But weirder things have happened.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer

“Immortality can mean deep thoughts and philosophical pondering and the relentless pursuit of knowledge, sure, but for me it was always the opposite. I found it so easy, falling into the day-to-day. The humdrum. Staring out of the window with an empty mind. A crossword, a walk in the rain, a well-written book. Flowers blooming.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Hot for Slayer