Quotes by Beth Fantaskey

I like pink.Lucius sniffed. Its just reds sorry, weak cousin.

Stupid Romanian bloodsucker. He was lucky I hadnt bestowed another exalted scar on his imperial body.

Fear is the worst kind of grave, because it buries one alive.

I knew that most people would consider us too young to talk about lifelong commitments or marriage, but I couldn’t imagine taking her to bed without that promise. Even if it meant never being with her, I didn’t want to have one desperate, hurried, hidden night. I wanted to put a ring on her finger. I wanted a future—or nothing. I knew, in her heart, that she would want that, too

As you wish, of course. Lucius lowered the volume on an old record player, which spun a warped vinyl disk that wailed unfamiliar music, scratchy and whiny, like cats fighting. Or a coffin with rusty hinges opening and closing over and over again in a deserted mausoleum. Do you like Croatian folk? heasked, seeing my interest. It reminds me of home.I prefer normal music.Ah, yes, your MTV with all the bumping and grinding. Like a shot of raging adolescent hormones administered via television. Im not averse.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

As you know, I have always been curious about our immortality... how it feels to live on and on through time....I need speculate no longer, I have sampled eternity in Miss Campbells fifth period social studies class. Three days on the concept of manifest destiny, Vasile. THREE DAYS. I yearned to stand up, rip her lecture notes from her pallid hands, and scream, Yes, America expanded westward! Is that not logical, given that Europeans settled on the Eastern shore? What else were they to do? Advance vainly into the sea?

Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too.

On the stage Tristen bent over the piano, his fingers swift and sure, his blond hair gleaming under the spotlight. I glanced around at the audience, watching their faces, gratified that they were as captivated as I was by the dark, thunderous song that Tristen conjured.

Happiness makes people beautiful

Youre a wrestler, right, Jake? Dad asked, passing Jake more saag. My parents were in an Indian food phase. The evenings entree consisted of limp spinach. God forbid wed throw a few burgers on the grill and just have a barbecue when guests came over.Jake gave the bright green, mushy contents a wary glance but accepted the bowl. Yeah. I wrestle. Im captain this year.How Greco-Roman of you, Lucius said dryly, lifting a glob of spinach and letting it drip, slowly, from his fork. Grappling about on mats.

(Honestly, Raniero, are we the only noble-born Vladescus who would know, for certain, that Bluetooth is not some dread, vampire-specific disorder involving lack of oxygen to the gums? I fear it is true.)

Ranerio wrapped his hand around mine, guiding my fingers like Lucius had done when hed shown me the latch behind the dressing-room door mirror. But while the warrior I loved had been offering me an escape route, the pacifist was trying to show me how to fight.

Where do you. come from? Frank challenged, puffing his chest, a little bolder now that he could breathe. Some of us are starting to wonder.I come from civilization, Lucius retorted. You wouldnt be familiar with the territory. Now pick up the books.

Lucius shrugged. Perhaps in time you will find it useful.Sure. Ill keep it on my shelf right next to The Idiots Guide to Becoming a Mythical Creature.Lucius actually laughed. Very funny. I didnt know you made jokes.Im a funny person, I defended myself. And by the way—I dont snore.You do snore. And you mumble, too.My blood froze. The dream . . . What? What did you hear?Nothing too intelligible. But it must have been a rather pleasant dream. You sounded ecstatic.

I must endure, fighting the temptation simply to become slack-jawed like most of my school peers (they wish!), who will themselves into a collective, vacant, trancelike state for the duration of each class. (Although I sometimes secretly envy their ability to empty their minds completely for a full fifty minutes, reanimating only at the sound of a bell, like Pavlovs dogs...)

My greatest friend is truth.

One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful

This is eternity, Antanasia, he said, both warning and imploring. Eternity.

I was wrong to insult you, and not only because you are my hosts. I am afraid that I mistook kindness for weakness. My apologies. I stand - only with your aid - profoundly corrected.