Seth Grahame-Smith · 336 pages
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“Judge us not equally, Abraham. We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Real power comes not from hate, but from truth.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“
…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of his life, and bring a fledgeling nation to the brink of collapse.
I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend."
"And I to see you dead.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“You speak of eternal life. You speak of indulging the mind and body,” said Abe. “But what of the soul?”
“And what use is a soul to a creature that shall never die?”
Abe couldn’t help but smile. Here was a strange little man with a strange way of seeing things. Only the second living man he’d ever met who knew the truth of vampires. He drank to excess and spoke in an irritating, high-pitched voice. It was hard not to like him.
“I begin to suspect,” said Abe, “that you would like to be one of them.”
Poe laughed at the suggestion. “Is not our existence long and miserable enough?” he asked, laughing. “Who in God’s name would seek to prolong it?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told.A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish? - Henry, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“some men are just too interesting to die”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“This is one hell of a suicide note.
THE SUICIDE SOLILOQUY-
Yes! I've resolved the deed to do,
And this the place to do it;
The heart I'll rush a dagger through
Though I in hell should rue it!
Sweet steel! Come forth from out your sheath,
And glist'ning, speak your powers;
Rip up the organs of my breath,
And draw my blood in showers!
I strike! It quivers in that heart
Which drives me to this end;
I draw and kiss the bloody dart,
My last-my only friend!”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“I think common-looking people are the best in the world. That's why the Lord makes so many of them.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, quote from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Seth Grahame-Smith
Born place: in Rockville Center, New York, The United States
Born date January 4, 1976
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“The waves had already washed away her footprints. But the tide had left something: a small creamy rock shaped like a heart, polished into a dull gleam by sand and water. Emma picked it up and held it in her hand. Her mother would say: The sea has given you a sign.”
― Nancy Thayer, quote from Beachcombers
“But life doesn't wait - it trickles between your fingers, trickles away....”
― Margaret Leroy, quote from The Soldier's Wife
“Thank God the Power Rangers showed up when they did, or he wouldn’t have been responsible for his actions.”
― Laura Kaye, quote from One Night with a Hero
“a space of time is a great breeder of myths.”
― Nathaniel Philbrick, quote from The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
“Muffled footsteps sounded in the distance. Goldie heard a shout, and the heavy clank of punishment chains. The footsteps came closer. A boy began to sing in a hoarse, adolescent voice. "Awa-a-a-y, across the ocean-a-an, awa-a-a-y, across the sea-a-a-a-."
There was a slap, and a yell. The singing stopped, but only for a moment. When it started up again, there were a dozen or more voices, all caterwauling at the top of their lungs. "-I'll go-o-o-o where my heart takes me, where my-y-y-y love waits for me-e-e-e-e."
A pause. A furious adult's voice said, "It's not your love that's waiting for you, you little villains, it's the House of Repentance! Deliberate destruction of property, putting the lives of others at risk, oh you're in for it, you are!"
Clank clank clank, went the punishment chains. "I’ve be-e-e-e-en away so long, dear, I've tra-a-a-aveled far and wi-i-i-i-i-ide-" sang the voices.
Goldie edged along the wall and eased the door open. There was a bustle and a shoving and a clanking, and suddenly the corridor in front of her was full of boys, milling backward and forward, rattling their chains and singing loudly. They were all older than Goldie, but they wore the same gray threadbare smock and leggings. Somewhere in the middle of them were two Blessed Guardians. The smell of burning hung over them all.
There was no time to think. Goldie couldn't see Toadspit, but she was sure he must be there somewhere. She whispered a quick "thank you" to Bald Thoke, then she stepped out into the corridor and tucked herself between two of the boys.
For a heart-stopping moment the song faltered. The boys on either side of Goldie shot incredulous glances at her-
Then they closed smoothly around her and began to sing louder than ever, their voices bouncing off the high ceilings. "Three yea-a-a-a-ars I rowed the galley-y-y-ys, three year-a-a-a-ars I was a sla-a-a-a-ave-."
They spilled out into the foyer, a laughing, shouting, singing rabble. The Guardians who led them were shouting too. Only Goldie was silent. She crouched between the tall, raucous boys, her smock blending with theirs, her pulse thundering in her ears.
"What's this?" shouted the toad-like Guardian. "Where are you taking them at this time of night?"
"Set fire to their beds?" shouted one of the other Guardians. "Don't know what's got into them! Marching them off to Repentance!"
"I'll need their names!"
"If I-I-I-I-I could turn back time, dea-a-a-a-ar, if I-I-I-I-I-I could start aga-a-a-a-a-in-"
"For Great Wooden's sake, we'll give them to you when we come back. I can't bear this appalling racket a moment longer!"
And with that, the boys, Goldie and the two Guardians spilled out the front door of Care, across the yard and through the gate.”
― Lian Tanner, quote from Museum of Thieves
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