Beth Fantaskey Quotes

I like pink.Lucius sniffed. It's just red's sorry, weak cousin.

~ Beth Fantaskey

Stupid Romanian bloodsucker. He was lucky I hadn't bestowed another exalted scar on his imperial body.

~ Beth Fantaskey

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

~ Beth Fantaskey

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

~ Beth Fantaskey

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. I'm not averse.

~ Beth Fantaskey

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

~ Beth Fantaskey

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

~ Beth Fantaskey

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.

~ Beth Fantaskey

Happiness makes people beautiful

~ Beth Fantaskey

(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.)

~ Beth Fantaskey

Ranerio wrapped his hand around mine, guiding my fingers like Lucius had done when he'd 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.

~ Beth Fantaskey

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 Pavlov's dogs...)

~ Beth Fantaskey

My greatest friend is truth.

~ Beth Fantaskey

One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful

~ Beth Fantaskey

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.

~ Beth Fantaskey

It is strange how love is a source for power––can spur the desire to fight to the death, or to fight back from something that seems like death for long enough to write a coherent note––but also of weakness.

~ Beth Fantaskey

Why did I sign up for this?''Because we grow by challenging ourselves.

~ Beth Fantaskey

She, of all people, knew the sacred trust that word -- librarian -- implied. Because a librarian was supposed to to be a spiritual, intellectual mentor who kept your secrets and didn't give you a funny look when you checked out a book on the care and feeding of pythons...A librarian opened up new doors for you, intellectually, too, without shoving you through them.A librarian was important.

~ Beth Fantaskey

Everybody should have a librarian.

~ Beth Fantaskey