“She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important."
Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi—much less try to develop a meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
“They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
“if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
“There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
“Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
“They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
Vivian Vande Velde
Born place: in New York City, New York, The United States
Born date June 18, 1951
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