“Elora: "If you bite me, I'll stake you."
Baka: "If I bite you, I'll stake myself.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“Great Paddy Shits in the Mornin', Elora! He's a vampire! No' a stray dog!”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“Storm gave the gun to Elora so that she could practice the reload. He moved behind her to make sure her form was correct. The first two shots missed altogether. One hit a target in the crotch-two targets away from where she was aiming. By the fourth round she was managing to hit her target...in the crotch.
Ram said, "I'm beginnin' to sense a very disturbin' pattern here.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“Sir Storm, I have decided that you are a god of poetic justice."
Baka to Storm”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“Why do you not believe you’re the father?” “Because elves and humans can no’ procreate.” As an afterthought, in the interest of clarity, he added, “With each other. It’s a biological fact not up to interpretation. The chromosomes do no’ line up.” Monq barked out a laugh that clearly offended Ram. “And what could you be findin’ amusin’ about this… situation?” “She’s an elf, you idiot! Her DNA is 99.9% the same as yours. The .01% difference is that her ears are not pointed.” While Ram stood there with his mouth open, trying to absorb that astonishing news, Elora turned to Monq with a hint of menace. “And you didn’t think this was information you should pass along?” “First, is it my job to keep up on gossip and know that the two of you are an item? No. Second, aren’t elves supposed to recognize each other as mates? That didn’t happen in your case?” Slowly a grin spread over his face. “Aye. ‘Tis exactly what did happen. Great Paddy! We’re havin’ a baby. I need to call my mother.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“What is it that you want with me, Baka?”
He looked at her in a predatory way that, she sensed, had nothing to do with blood. “The same thing any man who isn’t blind would want from you.” Elora arched a right eyebrow and took another sip of golden liquid as she waited for him to spell it out. “Your phone number.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“He was breathing heavy, but speaking assurances, words of encouragement delivered in short sentences. "Hang in there now. It'll be okay. We're almost there. Almost there.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“He’s the sex version of fast food drive-through. It looks so good. It smells so good. It tastes so good. And you can get it quick. But, afterward you feel yucky and are sorry you did it.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“Three sentences were highlighted: I’ve been a so-called coward and a so-called hero and there’s not the thickness of a sheet of paper between them. Maybe cowards and heroes are just ordinary men who, for a split second, do something out of the ordinary. That’s all.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” the Mad Hatter, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“Manhattan is at her best at Yuletide the way a pretty woman is even prettier with make up”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“Furchtlosigkeit im Gesicht der Hilflosigkeit. “Perhaps that’s what I deserve.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“there’s not the thickness of a sheet of paper between them. Maybe cowards and heroes are just ordinary men who, for a split second, do something out of the ordinary. That’s all.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“The unit was housed in a facility built after the model of the Pentagon, not in the sense of seven sides, but in the sense that the hexagon-shaped building surrounded and enclosed a large open area.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“Elora Laiken stood staring at it, feeling numb in body, mind, and spirit. She tried to focus on what Monq was saying as he scurried around the lab, waist long, white hair swaying in time with his agitated movements. “I’m sending you off world.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“Hearing pounding at the door, he rushed to put the handheld control in the blender he used to make smoothies and turned it on, thereby destroying any chance of assassins following her escape. There was just enough time to get to the other side of the room and wipe the hard drive before the ramming post broke through the door. He reached for a handful of peanuts then faced the intruders with a smile knowing that his life’s work and prize pupil were far, far away.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
“Elora decided she was a fan of 501’s; something about the pucker between each button of button fly jeans drew the eye like a codpiece.”
― Victoria Danann, quote from My Familiar Stranger
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“Nessun maggior dolore
che ricordarsi del tempo felice
nella miseria...”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from La Divina Comedia
“Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached. Reaching the goal itself may not be as valuable as the experience that can come in making a supreme effort to overcome the obstacles involved. The process can be more rewarding than the victory itself.”
― W. Timothy Gallwey, quote from The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
“Learning isn’t a way of reaching one’s potential but rather a way of developing it. We”
― K. Anders Ericsson, quote from Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
“she loathed writing about characters—hair color, type, eye color, body build, and last but not least, the dreaded clothing—all missing!”
― Lucian Bane, quote from Seven Sons of Zion
“Memorable among the Saxon warriors were Hengist and his wife (? or horse), Horsa. Hengist made himself King in the South. Thus Hengist was the first English King and his wife (or horse), Horsa, the first English Queen (or horse).”
― quote from 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England
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