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INTRODUCTION |
CHARACTER QUOTES. “When you’re out so much at night, you get to recognize the stars. Even if you don’t know their names.” "If somebody had said last week that I’d be...involved...with a human, I’d have knocked his head off. I mean, after howls of derisive laughter.” “It’s not a stick, it’s the way to deal with me on an equal level. One good push would do it. First here and then in the heart. You could eliminate the problem of me from your life.” “I’ve changed so much in the last few days that I don’t even recognize myself in the mirror.” “No, we’re only soulmates, that’s all. We’re only destined to be together forever...” “I’ll come back anyway. And in the meantime I’ll fight dragons, just like any knight for his lady. I’ll prove myself. You’ll be proud of me.” “You’re like her, you know. Like my – like Mary-Lynnette. You’re both...wise.” <-- Back. Blaise Harman: “I can take any boy from anybody. Any time, any place, any way I want to.” “You really care about him, don’t you?” “I don’t know why you want to be with a human. But I hope you keep on wanting it now that you have it.” “I’ll miss you – sister.” <-- Back. David Blackburn: “...Back then, I sort of got the wrong impression. I thought you were a lot younger and more – well, more fragile than you are. But, it’s like, there’s so much more to you. I started realizing that yesterday.” “You’re kind of incredible. And I feel really stupid for not noticing that before. So I guess what I’m saying is, I’m sorry if anything I said hurt your feelings. And – I see you now.” “Quit it, Gillian. You’re those things. You’re brave and funny and – well, too honorable for your own good.” “You know something weird? I don’t feel exactly whole. And the truth is... Okay, this is going to sound even dumber than I thought, but I’ve got to say it. I can’t help it. And since that day when I found you out there in the snow, I have this feeling that I won’t be, without... Well – you.” “You know what? I love you.” <-- Back. Delos Redfern: “No. I’m not bound to you. I don’t love you... I don’t love anyone. I don’t have feelings. You mean nothing to me. Nothing!” “Listen. You said that in your dream I told you to go away. Well, I’m telling you the same thing now. Go away and don’t ever come back. I never want to see your face again.” ‘I told you before, but you wouldn’t listen. What do I have to do to make you understand? ...I’m warning you. Don’t come to the castle. If you do, I won’t protect you again.’ “You can come out now. Or do I have to come in?” “You’re so close to dying, but you don’t seem to care. Are you too stupid to grasp it, or do you just have a death wish?” “This is what I am. A hunting animal. Part of a world of darkness that you couldn’t survive for a minute in. I’ve told you over and over to stay sway from it, but you won’t listen. You turn up in my own castle, and you just won’t believe your danger. So now I’m going to show you.” “You are so... So completely stupid. You don’t think I’ll hurt you... I will hurt you. I’ll show you... I will hurt you. Watch me hurt you.” “There is nothing ordinary about you.” <-- Back. Eric Ross: “I know I love Thea. And she loves me. And if there’s some rule that says we can’t be together, it’s a stupid rule.” “Am I immune to this stuff? Because I’m not forgetting anything. Or is it going to kick in any minute now?” “I’m so happy. I love you, witch.” <-- Back. Galen Drache: “You’re my soulmate Keller. And you know it!” “I wrote you a poem. Well, no, that’s not true. I kind of stole what your mother wrote and made it into...something.” ‘People die...so love them every day. Beauty fades...so look before it’s gone. Love changes...but not the love you give. And if you love, you’ll never be alone.’ <-- Back. Gary Fargeon: “...Watch the sarcasm, kid.” “How about if I say I know your heart’s desire is for David Blackburn to fall madly in love with you and for everyone at school to think you’re totally hot?” ‘These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.’ “Just looking at you. You look particularly beautiful tonight, which is absurd considering you’re wearing flannel pajamas with bears on them.” “You can do anything, that’s for sure. Sweet dreams, beautiful.” ‘Not hurt you. It was only him I wanted. I could have slipped in as he slipped out...’ ‘Are you all finished singing?’ “I had a little car crash. I was extremely drunk.” “Nobody knows where you are, do they? That wasn’t very smart, dragonfly.” “But I did, Gillian. That’s exactly what I did. I killed someone.” “On the way back home I wrapped my car around a tree. And that was it. Suddenly I’m in Neverland. Can’t talk to anybody, can’t touch anybody, but sure can see everything.” “One last thing. I didn’t change my mind about killing him because I couldn’t go through with it. I did it because I didn’t want you to hate me forever.” <-- Back. Gillian Lennox: “Look, after all I’ve seen...after you saved my life – and my bits...how could I not trust you? How could I ever not trust you?” “You’re a funny kind of angel.” “...I happen to like my brain cells. Maybe if you had more respect for yours you wouldn’t be flunking biology.” “I would do anything for David.” “I feel very witchy.” “...May I be given the power of the words of Hecate. It is not I who utter them, it is not I who repeat them; it is Hecate who utters them, it is she who repeats them.” ‘Being popular means everybody’s glad when something bad happens to you.’ “I’m a Hearth-Woman, a daughter of Hellewise, and if you don’t let me in, you stupid werewolf, I’m going to do to you what I did to your cousin there.” “Who are you? What are you, really? Who are you? ...I don’t know anything about you!” “I know what you are. Not an angel. Not a devil. You’re just a person. Just like me.” “Maybe...some angels are real.” <-- Back. Hannah Snow: “Everything used to be so perfect. I mean, I had my whole life under control. I’m a senior at Sacajawea High. I have nice friends; I have good grades. I even have a scholarship from Utah State for next year. And now it’s all falling apart...because of me. Because I’m going crazy.” “Do you think that you can just attack me and then come back and say ‘I’m sorry’ and it’s all going to be okay? Well, it isn’t. If there was ever anything between us, it’s all over now. There is no second chance.” “I hate you. I don’t need you. I don’t want you. And I’m telling you for the third time, keep the hell away from me.” “How stupid do you think I am? I mean, really. If you want to do something for me, you can turn around and go. Go away forever.” “I refuse to be...a victim...anymore.” <-- Back. Hunter Redfern: “You’d better watch yourself, girl. That mouth’s going to get you in trouble.” “You don’t know how happy it makes me just to think about it. To finally have a true heir. A male heir of my own line, and untainted by witch blood. I would never have married that witch Maeve Harman if I had known my son was still alive. And not only alive, but out having sons! The only true Redferns left in the world, you might say.” “I can’t wait to show you off to the world outside. My great-grandson. And to think that a year ago I didn’t know of your existence.” “In the new order after the millennium, we’ll have hunts like this every day. Each of us will have a city of humans to hunt. A city of throats to cut, a city of flesh to eat.” “We won’t stop with enslaving the humans. The witches are our enemies now. Think of the power you’ll feel when you drink their lives!” <-- Back. Iliana Dominick: “I am a witch and the daughter of a witch. Mine was the hand that took your power; mine was the hand that buried you in silence. Hecate was the most ancient of my mothers. Hecate’s hand is my hand now.” “I really do care about him. I guess I’m sort of in love with him, too. But I saw... The two of you were meant to be.” “I’m the Witch Child. They’d better listen to me.” <-- Back. James Rasmussen: “Poppy, I know you’re upset. And it’s my fault; I made a mistake. I didn’t want Phil to know what was really going on, and I told him I was just pretending to care for you. But it wasn’t true. If you search your feelings, you’ll know it’s not true. You’re turning into a telepath, and I think you already have enough power to read me.” “And we can walk into people’s homes without being invited, and roll in garlic if we don’t mind losing friends.” “You don’t love somebody because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song that nobody but you can understand.” “Ash is the real thing. The ultimate vampire. He doesn’t care about anybody but himself, and he loves to make trouble.” “You’re sure you’re all right? ...Good. Then just hang on a moment while I kill this guy and we’ll go.” “You know, you’ve never really cared about anyone. But someday you will, and it’s going to hurt. It’s going to hurt – a lot.” “He meant that you – and Phil – aren’t human after all. Somewhere among your ancestors there’s a witch.” <-- Back. Jez Redfern: “You better run, boy.” “I told them three minutes. You want me to break my word?” “I’m not even a Night Person. I’m vermin.” “Great. So my family’s going to destroy the world.” “It’s a family affair. Hunter’s my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. It’s only right that I stop him. And if anything happens to me – well, one Redfern less is probably a blessing to the world.” “I suppose because then I’d have to break every bone in your body, you jerk.” “I have a twisted sense of humor. So. Want to start this fight again?” “I can’t be your soulmate, Morgead.” “My father broke the laws of the Night World. He fell in love with a human, and they got married, and here I am.” “So, anyway... Are you going to try and kill me now? Or is the engagement just off?” “I told you never call me Jezebel.” <-- Back. John Quinn: “I really think you’d better kill me now. Unless you’re too stupid or too scared. This wood won’t hold forever, you know. And when I get out, I’m going to use that sword on you.” “If, you think that because I was a human once, I have any pity on them, you are very, very wrong. I hate humans more than I hate the Redferns.” “I’m faster than any human. I’m stronger than any human. I can see better in the dark. And I’m much, much nastier.” “Take your hands off her. Before I knock you through the wall.” “The only other possibility is that I kill you. Better this way than that.” “Besides, now that I have seen your face, I can’t stand the sight of myself in your eyes. I know what you think of me.” “Don’t you understand? As long as you’re human, Night World law says you have to die if I love you. If I love you. And that’s the problem, of course. I do love you.” “This is my soulmate. And we’re leaving together.” <-- Back. Lily Redfern: <-- Back. Maggie Neely: “You’re stronger than me; we both know that. But whatever you do, you can’t make me your prey. You don’t have that power. You can’t control me.” “You can kill me. But that’s all you can do. I told you, you can’t control me. And you can’t change what’s between us.” “They’re people. I don’t know how to get you to see that. They matter, too.” <-- Back. Mary-Lynnette Carter: “Ash? Get bent and die.” “Don’t you see? We’ve gotten mixed up in this Night World – and it’s a place where bad things can happen. Not just bad like flunking a class. Bad like... Like getting killed dead. And that’s serious, Mark. It’s not like the movies.” “But we’re not kids. We can’t be like Jade and Mark, and just hold hands and giggle and never think about the future.” “If we’ve got forever, then you can give me time. Go back and wander a little. Take a look at the Night World and make sure you want to give it up.” “Take a look at humans and make sure you want to be tied to one of them.” <-- Back. Maya: “Not all vampires can shapeshift. But, then, I’m not like other vampires. I’m the first, my darling. I’m the original.” “Because, then, my sweetpea, I wouldn’t win. And I have to win. Don’t you understand that yet? I have to win – because I’ve given up too much to lose. It can’t all be for nothing. So winning is all there is.” “I’m through fooling around with you, cupcake.” “You had guts – after all.” <-- Back. Morgead Blackthorn: “Oh, yeah? And you hit like a four-year-old. You couldn’t take me down if I stood here and let you.” “You think you know everything. But you don’t know me anymore. I’ve changed.” “Don’t try that stuff. ...You know what stuff! That ‘I’m Jez and I’m so wild and beautiful’ stuff. That ‘Why don’t you just drop your stick and let me hit you because it’ll be fun’ stuff.” “You can give up anytime, now. Because I’m going to win and we both know it.” “Drop dead, Jezebel.” “You know, there’s still a connection between us. I can feel it, sort of like a cord between our minds. It pulls. You can’t deny it, Jez. It’s there whether you like it or not. And – it tells me things. Things about you.” “You’re a dead Daybreaker. I can’t believe this. How am I supposed to protect you from the whole Night World?” “You heard me. I don’t care who your friends are, Jez. I don’t even care that you came back to use me. I’m just glad you came back. We’re soulmates, and nothing can change that. Even if you won’t admit it.” ‘What difference does it make? You and me – we’re lost anyway. And without you, I don’t care what happens.’ “I love you, you stupid human.” “You’re the idiot, idiot.” <-- Back. Philip North: “The wrong idea? I come in here and find the two of you in bed, with all the curtains drawn, and you’re telling me I’ve got the wrong idea?” “I’m gonna kill you, Rasmussen!” “Look, buddy. I don’t know who you are or what horse you rode in on. But that’s my sister there you’re messing with, and I figure I’ve got the first right to knock your head off.” <-- Back. Poppy North: “You... You... So it was all pretending? Is that it? You just felt sorry for me? ...And no wonder. And no wonder you wouldn’t say you loved me. And no wonder you would do all that other stuff, but you never even kissed me.” “You don’t know what it feels like to know you’re going to die.” “The reality is that one way or another I’m going to die soon. And I’d rather die and wake up a vampire than die and not wake up at all.” “...if it’s against the rules to tell a human or love a human, and you break the rules, then there must be some punishment for you...” <-- Back. Raksha Keller: “You’re the most selfish, spoiled little brat I’ve ever met!” “Love is weakness. And nobody is making me sentimental and weak! Nobody!” “We’re both shapeshifters, and there was a minute when we sort of lost our objectivity. We’re under a lot of stress. We had a moment of...physical attraction. It happens, when you do a job like this; you just can’t take it seriously.” “What kind of prince would put his personal happiness above the fate of his people? Above the fate of the whole freaking world, for that matter?” <-- Back. Rashel Jordan: “Tch, vampire family infighting. Why is it always so hard to get along with your folks?” “There is plenty of darkness. It’s everywhere. It’s inescapable. So the only thing we can do is embrace it. If we hold it close, it won’t hurt as much.” “I’d rather get to know a head louse.” “I can’t kill you. God help me, I can’t.” “What’s wrong, did you hunt too many little kids to keep track of? Or are you so crazy you believe your own public image?” “Hold me tighter. I’m a little cold.” <-- Back. Thea Harman: “I think I’m in love.” “Not this time. Eric loves me, and you can’t change that. You can’t take him.” “I’m now the princess of forbidden spells.” “By the power of Earth and Air and Water. By the power of Fire on this night of Hecate! By my own power as a daughter of Hellewise! Go speedily, conveniently and without delay, you bitch!” <-- Back. Thierry Descouedres: “All I’ve ever brought her is misery and pain. I guess she realizes that. So I’m ending the cycle...now.” “Even if you kill her, she’ll still be alive – here. In me. I keep her here. She’s a part of me. So until you kill me, you can’t really kill her.” “I almost forgot. You’re seventeen today. Congratulations.” <-- Back. |