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 anti-human, the merely animal, consists in staying within the sphere of feeling, and being able to communicate only at that level". (1807, § 69).”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, quote from Phenomenology of Spirit
“The examination combines the techniques of an observing hierarchy and those of a normalizing judgement. It is a normalizing gaze, a surveillance that makes it possible to qualify, to classify and to punish. It establishes over individuals a visibility through which one differentiates them and judges them. That is why, in all the mechanisms of discipline, the examination is highly ritualized. In it are combined the ceremony of power and the form of the experiment, the deployment of force and the establishment of truth. At the heart of the procedures of discipline, it manifests the subjection of those who are perceived as objects and the objectification of those who are subjected. The superimposition of the power relations and knowledge relations assumes in the examination all its visible brilliance.”
― Michel Foucault, quote from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“The uncertainty principle signaled an end to Laplace's dream of a theory of science, a model of the universe that would be completely deterministic. We certainly cannot predict future events exactly if we cannot even measure the present state of the universe precisely!
We could still imagine that there is a set of laws that determine events completely for some supernatural being who, unlike us, could observe the present state of the universe without disturbing it. However, such models of the universe are not of much interest to us ordinary mortals. It seems better to employ the principle of economy known as Occam's razor and cut out all the features of the theory that cannot be observed.”
― Stephen Hawking, quote from A Briefer History of Time
“I find it hard to believe that a lady like...’ Pertellis hesitated, and coughed. ‘There is something elevated in the female spirit that will always hold a woman back from the coldest and most vicious forms of villainy.’
‘No, there isn’t,’ Miss Kitely said kindly but firmly, as she set a dish in his hand. ‘Drink your chocolate, Mr Pertellis.”
― Frances Hardinge, quote from Fly by Night
“You are already part of a family," Desari reminded him,her body brushing his, her arms circling his waist from behind. She had materialized out of nowhere,her presence filling the healing chamber.
She was there.Completing him. His air. His heart.The part of his soul that really lived and loved and mattered. Without conscious thought he sent up a quick prayer of thanks that he had been granted such a priceless treasure when he felt so undeserving of her.
Julian loved the way she smelled. He inhaled, and her scent washed over him, clean and sexy. "This mess? With all these males?" Julian allowed a low, rumbling growl to escape. "This is no family. This is a man's nightmare."
Desari deliberately moved against him, her body soft and pliant with invitation. "Is that what you think?"
"What I think is"-Julian circled her slender throat with his large hand in mock threat- "you are deliberately tempting me when I have important, pressing business to atttend to.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Dark Challenge
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