“I'll teach Amelia Beauregard a thing or two. - Molly”
― Kirsten Miller, quote from The Darkness Dwellers
“You know the Wicked Witch of Tenth Street? - Ananka's mother, to Principal Wickham”
― Kirsten Miller, quote from The Darkness Dwellers
“Who's Thyrza?" Molly asked.
"What? Oh, some World War II femme fatale. Amelia Beauregard's boyfriend ran away with her."
"That was my grandmother's name.”
― Kirsten Miller, quote from The Darkness Dwellers
“You know how to tail people?" I asked.
My mother shrugged and kept her mouth shut, but her devilish smile said everything.”
― Kirsten Miller, quote from The Darkness Dwellers
“If we get lucky, it will grow hair.”
― Kirsten Miller, quote from The Darkness Dwellers
“I like to keep my books in my library, he said, 'and I like my library to get bigger rather than smaller.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Revenge of the Witch
“All it had cost me was everything”
― Rosamund Hodge, quote from Cruel Beauty
“Amy read Ovid and Virgil and Aristophanes and Homer. She read dry histories and scandalous love poetry (her governesses, who had little Latin and less Greek, naïvely assumed that anything in a classical tongue must be respectable), but mostly she returned again and again to The Odyssey.
Odysseus had fought to go home, and so would Amy.”
― Lauren Willig, quote from The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
“For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all the time? A wife is supposed to be a partner, and yes partners help each other when they need it, but they are supposed to be together because they want to in my book, not because one needs the other.”
― Lynsay Sands, quote from A Quick Bite
“...called nine-one-one," Howie was saying, "and then I heard something in the alleyway, so I went back there and" --Howie coughed-- "and valiantly attacked his knife with my guts, to no avail."
"Did you get a good look at him? Could you describe him?"
Howie smiled wanly. "Yeah. He was about yay long" --he held up his hands, four inches apart-- "thin, made of steel. Pointy. Sharp.”
― Barry Lyga, quote from I Hunt Killers
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