“He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“Raven?'
Yes?'
What do you believe in?'
I believe in - finding out!”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It had been two longs days since I had seen my Gothic mate. I was so preoccupied with Alexander, dreaming of the next time we'd be together, nothing else mattered. I didn't wash the spot where his tender love lips had pressed against my flesh. I was acting like I was straight out of a Gidget movie! What had happened to me? I was losing my edge! For the first time in my life I was really afraid. Afraid of never seeing him again and afraid of being rejected.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“I want a relationship
I can finally sink my teeth into."
-Alexander Sterling”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!"..."But I thought it was just the one time?”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“Call school, tell them I'm lovesick.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“I'm going to a dance."
With Becky?"
No, with Alexander."
Who's Alexander?"
The love of my life!”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak."
"I'll kick anyone who does."
"I think you already did. Or at least smacked him with a tennis racket."
-Alexander and Raven, Vampire Kisses, Pg.127, The Beginning”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“Go in and get us a shrunken head!”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“(Raven) "Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal?"
(Alexander) "If he's with the right girl.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“I think some people call this love. I call it hell.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“I want a relationship i can finally sink my teeth into”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“Call school," I called to her at the door. "Tell them I'm lovesick." -Raven”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“No way! Everyone knows he’s in love with that Raven girl. But get this. I saw that ghost guy at the movies last Friday. Alone. Who goes to a movie by himself?” “Only a loony loser crazy person,” Josie said.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“His touch calmed me. I thought I was going to melt into the earth.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“I just want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“I had Trevor Mitchell’s clothes in my arms. His sweater, V-neck, undershirt, khakis, socks, loafers, and underwear. I had his power. His mask. I had his whole life. What was a girl to do? This girl ran. I ran so hard, like I had never run before. Like I had been training every day in gym class. If Mr. Harris could have seen me then, he surely would have put me on the track team.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“Have fun, you two, and take good care of Billy, okay?” “Who?” she asked, puzzled. “Billy. My brother.” They both laughed. I grabbed my jacket and flew out of there like a bat.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“He stared me at with his deep midnight eyes. He leaned toward me. And he kissed me. With passion. He kissed me! He finally kissed me! Right there in front of Bela Lugosi!”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Vampire Kisses
“It is better to bow to the dictates of the wind than to try to chase or chain it.”
― Sharon Shinn, quote from Archangel
“In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard and is driven mad by the empty immensity of what he finds himself floating in. And when I teach school now I always teach Crane's horrific "The Open Boat," and get all bent out of shape when the kids find the story dull or jaunty-adventurish: I want them to feel the same marrow-level dread of the oceanic I've always felt, the intuition of the sea as primordial nada, bottomless, depths inhabited by cackling tooth-studded things rising toward you at the rate a feather falls.”
― David Foster Wallace, quote from A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“Hope was all that stood between them and death.”
― Nathaniel Philbrick, quote from In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
“Lying is the worst of all evils. Everything else that is diabolical comes from it.”
― Władysław Szpilman, quote from The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
“If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you have said this day, what you have done and thought, for in these things perhaps you have often offended God and those about you.”
― Thomas à Kempis, quote from The Imitation of Christ
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