“Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“People fear what they can't understand and harm what they fear.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“Morning, sunshine."
Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid."
"Pardon me?"
"Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else.
Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“Vlad's heart sank into his stomach, then squeezed its way down his leg and popped out of the hole in his shoe, where it struck the floor and broke.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“Thw world is full of monsters with friendly faces.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“Vlad blinked, unsure where her question was coming from and, more importantly, where it was going.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Eighth Grade Bites
“There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from Slaughterhouse-five: The Children's Crusade, A Duty-dance with Death
“Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.”
― China Miéville, quote from Kraken
“I want to fall into him. I want to let someone else carry this weight, even if just for a little bit. But it's been too long.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Letters to the Lost
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Alkimist
“MOMA's values were blown through the American education system, from high school upwards-and downwards, too, greatly raising the status of "creativity" and "self-expression" in kindergarten. By the 1970s, the historical study of modern art had expanded to the point where students were scratching for unexploited thesis subjects. By the mid-eighties, twenty-one-year-old art-history majors would be writing papers on the twenty-six-year-old graffitists.”
― Robert Hughes, quote from The Shock of the New
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