“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
“Committing myself to the task of becoming fully human is saving my life now...to become fully human is something extra, a conscious choice that not everyone makes. Based on my limited wisdom and experience, there is more than one way to do this. If I were a Buddhist, I might do it by taking the bodhisattva vow, and if I were a Jew, I might do it by following Torah. Because I am a Christian, I do it by imitating Christ, although i will be the first to admit that I want to stop about a day short of following him all the way.
In Luke's gospel, there comes a point when he turns around and says to the large crowd of those trailing after him, "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple" (14:26). Make of that what you will, but I think it was his way of telling them to go home. He did not need people to go to Jerusalem to die with him. He needed people to go back where they came from and live the kinds of lives that he had risked his own life to show them: lives of resisting the powers of death, of standing up for the little and the least, of turning cheeks and washing feet, of praying for enemies and loving the unlovable.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, quote from Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
“Ecco dove accadde. Lei è stata qui. Questi leoni di pietra, ora senza testa, l'hanno fissata. Questa fortezza, una volta inespugnabile, cumulo di pietre ora, fu l'ultima cosa che vide. Un nemico da tempo dimenticato e i secoli, sole, pioggia, vento, l'hanno spianata. Immutato il cielo, un blocco d'azzurro intenso, alto, distante. Vicine, ogg come ieri, le mura ciclopiche che orientano il cammino: verso la porta dal cui fondo non fiotta più sangue. Nelle tenebre. Nel macello. E sola.
Con questo racconto vado nella morte.
Termino qui, impotente, e niente, niente di quello che avrei potuto fare o non fare, volere o pensare, mi avrebbe condotto a una meta diversa. Più profondamente di ogni altro moto dell'animo, più profondamente persino della mia paura, mi impregna, mi corrode, mi avvelena l'indifferenza dei celesti verso noi terreni. Naufragata l'audace impresa di opporre il nostro debole calore alla loro gelidità.”
― Christa Wolf, quote from Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
“❝Washington — perhaps as many global powers have done in the past — uses what I might call the “immaculate conception” theory of crises abroad. That is, we believe we are essentially out there, just minding our own business, trying to help make the world right, only to be endlessly faced with a series of spontaneous, nasty challenges from abroad to which we must react. There is not the slightest consideration that perhaps US policies themselves may have at least contributed to a series of unfolding events. This presents a huge paradox: how can America on the one hand pride itself on being the world’s sole global superpower, with over seven hundred military bases abroad and the Pentagon’s huge global footprint, and yet, on the other hand, be oblivious to and unacknowledging of the magnitude of its own role — for better or for worse — as the dominant force charting the course of world events? This Alice-in-Wonderland delusion affects not just policy makers, but even the glut of think tanks that abound in Washington. In what may otherwise often be intelligent analysis of a foreign situation, the focus of each study is invariably the other country, the other culture, the negative intentions of other players; the impact of US actions and perceptions are quite absent from the equation. It is hard to point to serious analysis from mainstream publications or think tanks that address the role of the United States itself in helping create current problems or crises, through policies of omission or commission. We’re not even talking about blame here; we’re addressing the logical and self-evident fact that the actions of the world’s sole global superpower have huge consequences in the unfolding of international politics. They require examination.”
― Graham E. Fuller, quote from A World Without Islam
“...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.”
― Emma Donoghue, quote from Landing
“You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, and I listened.”
― L'Poni Baldwin, quote from Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run
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