Strange Practice Quotes

“Whatever you’re into is some fascinatingly weird shit.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“people are willing to overlook all kinds of eccentricities if you present them with enough money.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“Don't you think it seems a little... backward, perhaps...to run around committing mortal sins in order to cleanse the world of sin and evil?”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“You are not humans," she said at last, "but you are people . All of you. The ghouls, the mummies, the sanguivores, the weres, the banshees, the wights, the bogeys, everyone who comes to me for help, everyone who trusts me to provide it. You are all people , and you deserve to to be able to seek and receive that care without putting yourselves in jeopardy. What I do is necessary, and while it isn't in the slightest bit easy , it is also the thing I want to do more than anything else in the world.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“I find that if you dig deep enough you can almost always find something worth the effort.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“Vampires and fancy clothing just went together ; it was one of those things.”
― Vivian shaw, Strange Practice

“As long as there was secrecy, there would be a need for holes to hide in.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“Really", Ruthven had said when the question of his nature had first (awkwardly) arisen, early in their acquaintance, "the easiest thing is to think of me as a large well-dressed mosquito, only with more developed social graces and without the disease-vector aspect.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“He had considered going up to Scotland, moping about a bit in more appropriate scenery. Going back to his roots. There were several extremely good reasons not to do this, but faced with the spectre of serious boredom Ruthven had begun to let himself imagine the muted melancholy colors of heather and gorse, the coolness of mist on his face, the somewhat excruciatingly romantic ruins of his ancestral pile. And sheep. There would be sheep, which went some way toward mitigating the Gothic atmosphere.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“holy UV-B light source, purify me of sin’?”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“She didn’t deserve friends like this, but she was very, very grateful for them.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“it’s so wearying to feel completely useless.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“I have not yet begun to shout, and a scene would involve someone throwing things and/or being tossed out of a window; this is just a mild disturbance.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“If we're going to have a council of war we might as well have a nice cup of tea while we're doing it.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“Greta smiled suddenly, and he had to blink. It was a little like watching a small and self-contained sunrise. 'Thank you,' she said. 'I'm...very glad you're here.'

Just for a moment, Varney thought that *he* was, too. For a moment.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“London’s lost rivers had taken on a romantic sort of mystery in popular awareness. The idea of waters flowing on and on in the endless darkness under the city streets was deliciously eerie, and of course lost and abandoned tunnels and caverns had always appealed to a certain sort of adventurous spirit. Even the names were evocative: the Tyburn, the Fleet, the Effra, the Westbourne, once broad streams in their own right—now bound and channeled in the bowels of the ancient city, but not entirely forgotten. The old rivers flowed now in a muffled roar and chime of water through cathedrals of tile and brick, unseen arches and coigns of gorgeous complexity guiding and shaping their eventual journey to the sea.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“Dr. Faust is my personal physician, as well as being medical director of the Erebus Health System.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“She was odd, and he could not work out quite why she did what she was doing, or why anyone would want to.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“Back in the day I used to get kicked out of lodging houses in Rotherhithe for making too much noise and disturbing the neighbors. These days life is generally easier, but I do miss opium dens.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“Para los gules, era un insulto particularmente horrible… Un insulto cruel y una aflicción profunda. En una sociedad en la que se comen a sus muertos como manera de honrar su memoria, no ser capaces de recuperar los cuerpos de la masacre significaría que sus espíritus no podrían liberarse como es debido, que el proceso de duelo no encontraría un cierre natural.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“Las cicatrices rosadas brillantes y abultadas de las quemaduras recientes destacaban sobre la piel blanca sin pelo, moteada y con manchas; sus cejas y pestañas habían desaparecido, los dientes tenían una mancha oscura y extraña en las encías, y tenía la boca retorcida a un lado por el tejido cicatrizado. Lo que le había ocurrido a sus ojos era tal vez lo peor. Eran como la clara de dos huevos pasados por agua, una masa inexpresiva de un tejido membranoso blanquecino y sin forma. Literalmente, le habían cocido los ojos”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“killed you if he could.” She put down the piece of toast. “It’s my job,” she said.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“Being somewhere this normal and ordinary, full of normal ordinary people who didn’t have magic powers and couldn’t turn into other things, and whose eyes didn’t glow in the dark, was a luxury Greta had not honestly considered before now.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“but dinner-table how was your day conversations had been a daily minefield to negotiate, and the benefits of being involved with someone had simply not measured up.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“Ruthven wasn’t much of a traditionalist. He didn’t even own a coffin, let alone sleep in one; there simply wasn’t room to roll over, even in the newer, wider models, and anyway the mattresses were a complete joke and played merry hell with one’s back.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“.” “One thing I have found to hold true across the centuries,” said Varney, “is that people are willing to overlook all kinds of eccentricities if you present them with enough money.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“also he rather strongly wanted to remain under the immediate protection of someone physically capable of tying lampposts in knots.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“All her life she had made do with what there was. Hand-me-down clothes, secondhand cars, used medical equipment from two decades back. It was just how things were, and always had been, and the idea of actually being able to have the things she wanted instead of just dream about them opened up such an enormous array of opportunities.”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“You are not human,” she said at last, “but you are people. All of you. The ghouls, the mummies, the sanguivores, the weres, the banshees, the wights, the bogeys, everyone who comes to me for help, everyone who trusts me to provide it. You are all people, and you all deserve medical care, no matter what you do or have done,”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice

“How does he talk when he's a snake? Their mouths aren't built for it."

"How does he turn into a snake in the first place? How does Ruthven change from sixty or seventy kilos of bipedal humanoid into a few grams of regrettably adorable bat?”
― Vivian Shaw, Strange Practice