Top 84 Carrie Vaughn Quotes
#1. I was under the impression that werewolf packs were not meant to be run by committee."
"Yeah," I said. "But I dont want to be like all those other werewolves, you know?"
"Says the werewolf named Kitty."
"It's too late to change my name now," I grumbled.
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#2. ... We're werewolves. We don't get to judge 'crazy.
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#3. Well. Miracles never cease.'
'Amen to that.'
Which, upon reflection, was a very strange thing to hear a vampire say.
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#4. It's my husband. I think - I think he's a zombie."
I smiled. "Believe it or not, I get this one a lot. Can you describe his behavior? Why do you think he's a zombie?"
She huffed. "He doesn't do anything! He sits on the sofa all day watching TV and that's it.
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#5. Cormac drove. He eyed me in the rearview mirror. Anyone you want me to beat up?
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#6. So I'd been called the Barbara Walters of weird shit.There's weird shit and then there's weird shit.
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#9. The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.
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#10. You know your all fucks! why am i so dichable? now how am i supposed to kill you with out upseting that poor nice women!? God damnit alice i liked you why did you have to be such a bitch
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#11. You know, it isn't that were particularly good at granting wishes, or finding things or, well, anything. Playing tricks, maybe. but we pay attention. We find the loose thread that everyone else misses and tug. It makes us look so very clever.
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#12. I like Nasser. He's creepy, but he seems sensible. For a vampire.
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#13. Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.
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#14. Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.
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#15. I was a creature of the night, I wasn't supposed to be afraid of the dark. Not that it was the dark I was afraid of
it was the other creatures of the night.
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#16. To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word.
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#17. Love had sneaked up on us rather than bursting upon us like cannons and fireworks.
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#18. When aspiring writers ask me about how they should target their writing, I tell them to pay no attention to that kind of thing. It will restrict you. You will end up falling into stereotypes in an effort to tailor your work toward a perceived genre category.
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#19. Had to stay human. Wolf couldn't drive the freaking car. Or hold the gun.
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#20. One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.
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#21. I got into an argument with my original publisher. They wanted me to do 'Kitty' and nothing else. I wanted to do lots of things, not just 'Kitty' books.
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#23. I got a crash-course education in urban fantasy. I suddenly had to look up all these other writers I was supposed to be in a genre with. I instantly had to become an expert in this genre I knew almost nothing about.
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#25. I don't like going into this with a half-baked plan." "It's not half-baked," I said. "It's mostly baked. Just a little soft in the middle." Actually, that was bravado.
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#26. A fucked-up family's a fucked-up family, whether or not werewolves are involved.
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#28. I wanted to be Carrie Vaughn the awesome writer, not the chick who writes the 'Kitty' books.
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#29. Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly, werewolf gotta have a pack?" I said wryly.
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#30. I imagined calling in to my own radio show: Yeah hi, I'm a werewolf, and I'm stuck in a cabin in the woods with another werewolf and a werewolf hunter ...
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#31. I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.
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#32. So, Cormac, have you ever dealt with a PMSing werewolf?'
No.'
Well, it's a real bitch ...
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#33. If you sell yourself short before you even start, you'll never know how far you could have gone. Ambition is a wonderful thing and has gotten me farther than I ever thought I'd go.
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#34. All writing and publishing is very difficult, regardless of genre. There are going to be obstacles no matter what.
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#35. You mean like some kind of A Midsummer Night's Dream shtick? For real?
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#36. What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?
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#37. If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday
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#38. Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love to have more books like that in the world.
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#39. You know why horror-movie characters always get killed? Because they've never seen horror movies. They don't know how it works. Right? But we do. So no one go into the basement alone. No one go screaming off into the woods alone. No one has any sex.
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#40. Have you thought about going insane?" It would seem like a reasonable thing to do, given his circumstances.
"Did once. Got boring, so I snapped out of it.
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#41. As far as I know, no vampires live in Antarctica."
"I'd have thought the long winter nights would be just the thing for you guys," I said.
"Perhaps. But the food supply is a bit wanting.
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#42. It's normal to dream about anything at all. It's not normal to dream someone else's dreams. -Arthur Mentis
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#43. Even when you felt that your own life had tumbled irrevocably out of control. You did what you had to do, somehow. You kept racing ahead and hoped for the best.
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#44. Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.
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#45. In the end, maybe that was what separated the real paranormal investigators from the charlatans. The charlatans kept up the aura of mystery and obfuscation. The real investigators kept asking why and how.
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#46. V.L.A.D.: Vampire League Against Discrimination.
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#47. What's interesting to me is how many vampire/urban fantasy authors are writing young adult series as well, often set in the same world as their adult books, but focused on a younger audience.
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#48. I looked at my two wolves. When I knelt they came to me rubbed against me smelling me and I stroked them. "Thank you for believing in me " I said and maybe they understood and maybe they didn't.
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#49. Have a picture in mind of the kind of career you want, the kind of writer you want to be. This will help you make tough decisions when you reach crossroads - choosing an agent, deciding to accept deals.
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#50. My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it.
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#51. I was born on Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento, but we moved around a lot.
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#52. A lot of these women had to overcome cultural conditioning against hurting other people, or even confronting anyone physically.
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#53. A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.
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#54. I punched to line. "Yes? What?"
"Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.
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#55. That we have purpose for being who we are, and what we are, though we may not always know it.
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#56. You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me.
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#57. Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.
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#58. You poked the hornet's nest," I said flatly.
"Guess so."
"And how did that work out for you?" Ben asked.
"Found the hornets," he answered, grinning sleepily.
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#59. Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.
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#60. Damn stupid vampires and their stupid sense of stupid superiority-
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#61. What all the stories and romances don't say is that happily ever after doesn't just happen. You have to work at it. You have to keep working at it.
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#62. I admit, I'm suspicious of any career planning that involves chasing the next 'big thing,' just because it's so hard to predict what the next big thing is going to be a couple of years - or even six months - out.
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#63. A werewolf isn't supposed to have parents." Brenda said, grumbling. "They're not supposed to have mothers. How am I supposed to shoot you now, knowing it'll upset that really nice woman?
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#64. 1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.
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#65. Hey, Cormac. You ever have to deal with a PMSing werewolf?
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#66. Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.'
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#67. Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas - why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?"
"Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?"
"Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.
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#68. I would ask, 'Have you read '1984'? Have you read 'Brave New World'? If so, I'm sorry, but you read science fiction.'
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#69. You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you.
So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?
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#71. You only get married the first time once. There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence
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#73. The underworld, the old world, is the womb that gave birth to humanity. The journey from under the earth is the journey from ignorance to wisdom.
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#74. But the longing was the phantom ache of an amputated limb. It was part of her, and most of the time she didn't notice. But certain moments were like reaching for something with a hand that wasn't there.
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#75. He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.
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#76. It happened so fast the driver didn't have a chance to flinch. Leo grabbed his head and wrenched, twisting it sharply until it crunched. As a man, Leo didn't look like much. Didn't look strong enough to break a man's neck.
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#77. Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow."
Her voice held a smile. "So am I
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#79. All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.
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#80. You're Regina Luporum," Ned, Master of London, had said. "Of course strange things are happening to you.
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#81. Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels.
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#82. This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that time were still here, alive, even if it was just in the form of collective memory.
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#83. When someone out there says that I'm not really human - what are they giving themselves permission to do to me?
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