Urban Fantasy Quotes

I don’t know about you, but I’ve got plans for next Thursday. And I’m not in the mood to have them ruined by some apocalypse.

~ Deborah Blake

For years she’d been the Central Gates Precinct’s Witness Retrieval Specialist – more commonly referred to as a “Ghost Yanker” by her non-magical colleagues on the force. Being stuck in the basement talking to dead victims would depress the hell out of anyone, if they did it for long enough. Then, six months ago, everything changed.

~ Deborah Blake

he night beyond the window was still, mordant white snow, punctuated only by the eerie dark of the trees, gumshoeing their way along the edge of the path outside. Their skeletal fingers clawed up at the stars, held down by an insidious, weightless lacing of snowflakes. I gazed idly at the moon and wondered if it truly had the power to sway the will of men.

~ Hazel Butler

The night beyond the window was still, mordant white snow, punctuated only by the eerie dark of the trees, gumshoeing their way along the edge of the path outside. Their skeletal fingers clawed up at the stars, held down by an insidious, weightless lacing of snowflakes. I gazed idly at the moon and wondered if it truly had the power to sway the will of men.

~ Hazel Butler

She killed to get the dream she wanted, then found out it didn't want her back.

~ Robyn Hugo Mcintyre

My parents think the longer the name, the more powerful the sorcerer, so they named me Cassandra Morgan Ursula Margaret Scot. You can call me Cassie.

~ Christine Amsden

Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.

~ Kelley Armstrong

He was trying to tell me something.Derek snorted. Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

~ Kelley Armstrong

Sometimes, Gansey forgot how much he liked school and how good he was at it. But he couldn't forget it on mornings like this one—fall fog rising out of the fields and lifting in front of the mountains, the Pig running cool and loud, Ronan climbing out of the passenger seat and knocking knuckles on the roof with teeth flashing, dewy grass misting the black toes of his shoes, bag slung over his blazer, narrow-eyed Adam bumping fists as they met on the sidewalk, boys around them laughing and calling to one another, making space for the three of them because this had been a thing for so long: Gansey-Lynch-Parrish.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

As I pulled aside the linen curtain to the back room, I heard the front door open again. If it was Christina returning to make a second effort at my leggings, I was going to be forced to get loud, and I didn't like getting loud.But it wasn't Christina I heard at the front of the store.Instead, a very familiar voice said, No, no, I'm looking for something very particular. Oh, wait, I just saw it.I turned around.Cole St. Clair smiled lazily at me.I gave so many damns at once that it actually hurt.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I already fear for my life just because of who I am, you think adding a little inconsequential vampire to the equation will change any of that?

~ Amalie Howard

He smashed his lips together, and I knew what he was thinking. He always made that face before he brought up my mother. “Did it have anything to do with—”“Not everything is about my mom,” I snapped before he could get the words out. “Geez, you took one psychology class, and you think you’re frickin’ Freud.

~ K.j. Mcpike

I’m not mean to everybody. I’m only mean to people whose intellectual level is awfully lower than mine.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

If he just had the decency to die silently yesterday, not squeal like a girl, I’d be free right now. Probably even doing some real job,” she sneered.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

He had a semicircle tattoo with an indecent word on the back of his head, suggesting all people around him to leave him alone – in a much more impolite manner.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

Everything had changed, and maybe she couldn’t keep up with it, but she still was good at making people regret they had ever crossed her way.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

Because otherwise you would have to let them in, let them change your life, and it’s scary and unpredictable and unsafe – at least, that’s what we all think.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

And as her voice carried in the darkness, he wasn’t sure where the borders between her story and his dream were. But he saw no more nightmares; he dreamed of a noble Sky Ghost and his little daughter, which he taught everything she needed to become a better warrior than he was.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

She looked herself in the eyes and saw that there was nothing left. No sense. It must have gone through that hole in her chest along with everything else.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

She had every right to be harsh, mean, and independent. Every damn right. And yet he had a feeling that she needed care more than anyone else in the world.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

The others could believe that she was that way because she lost her parents so early, but Peter knew better. She was strong, confident, and never broken.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

He watched her curiously from below, feeling as someone might feel watching a butterfly sit nearby, afraid to scare it off with a sound of voice or an abrupt movement.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

My Characters Tell ME Where THEY Want to Go.

~ R.l. Stoll

There was no gentle way around it - hearts would be broken, relationships would be crushed and I was the messenger.

~ S.g. Holster

Perception in the eye of vengeance becomes blurred. Ren was in need of a slap on the face, but I knew what was coming and that it would do the job properly.

~ S.g. Holster

I loved him, but he didn't want me anymore.I suffered, and he laughed at my umanity.This desire will be my end.

~ Sabrina Benulis

And if you lose the willingness, what do you have?

~ Sabrina Benulis

The death has an only color.

~ Sabrina Benulis

As I stand at the edge of the pit, searching for his body amongst all the others, I am slightly frightened by the violent clashes. It seems almost savagery, the way they throw themselves into each other. As I continue to watch, unable to look away, drawn in by their angry and troubled release I see him. His body is sweating, his muscles are flexed and his face holds an expression of pain mixed with pleasure. In that moment I realize their is so much I don't know about the man I am falling in love with and my fear of him excites me.

~ Nicole T. Smith

Jake's in trouble.'Luca rolled his eyes. 'What now?''He's gone off somewhere, I think I know where, and I don't think it's good.''Cant that boy ever stay in and watch telly like the rest of us?

~ Sharon Sant

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?

~ Alexia Purdy

He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what I can do after all.

~ Sophie Jordan

So you want me to track down a supernaturally fast sniper who can disappear into thin air, retrieve your maps, and do it so nobody finds out what I'm doing or why?''Exactly.'I sighed. 'I'll get the paperwork.

~ Ilona Andrews

Anyone who thought death warmed over didn't look good, had never seen this guy.

~ Donna Augustine

You are familiar with World War 2?Of course I am. I'm dead, not stupid.

~ Donna Augustine

Would it be possible to speak to this Universe person?I'm sure that they will understand that there is a personality conflict. It was time to bump my complaint to upper management.No one speaks to the Universe.Then how do you know what to do? I leaned in a little.Simple. Through my orders. His eyes started to twitch. Which you get how?My memos.

~ Donna Augustine

I'm dead?That body is... yes.

~ Donna Augustine

I stepped out and the sun was shining. And the birds were chirping. It was the nicest day we'd had in ages. A couple of bunnies scampering about. It could have been the start of a Disney flick.

~ Donna Augustine

People say karma's a bitch. Personally, I really don't think I'm that bad.

~ Donna Augustine