Kendare Blake Quotes & Sayings

#1. She draws her sister's blood with a pair of silver shears. What was meant to simply trim her hair has instead shorn off an ear.

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#2. You make me want things I can't have.

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#3. I can feel that photo of Anna staring at me from sixty years ago, and I can't help myself from wanting to protect her, wanting to save her from becoming what she already is.

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#4. Move, hunt, kill. Like lather, rinse, and repeat.

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#5. I think I killed a girl who looked like this once.

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#6. I am your servant," he answers, and touches her cheek. "I am your slave. I am here to make sure every one of the suitors does not think of either of your sisters before they think of you.

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#7. The accusations make me want to be kid again. Why isn't my mommy calling them big fat liars?

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#8. Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.

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#9. She talks like she thinks I'm a schoolboy with fantasies of heroes who get the girl and ride off into the sunset. What kind of world does she think I grew up in?

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#10. Do you see what I do?

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#11. I smile quietly. She is with me all the time. I feel stupid now, for not seeing it sooner. But hey, at least we'll have this strange story to tell, love and death and blood and daddy-issues. And holy crap, I am a psychiatrist's wet dream.- Cas Lowood, Anna Dressed in Blood

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#12. I should've known Gideon would spill. He's like a surrogate parent. Not like a stepfather, exactly - more like a godfather, or a sea horse who wants to stuff me into his pouch.

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#13. She's my purpose and we're going to save each other. We're going to save everyone. And then I'm going to convince her that she's supposed to stay here. With me.

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#14. I'm no superhero. If anything I'm Rorschach from Watchmen. I'm Grendel. I'm the survivor in Silent Hill.

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#15. It's the wrong way. She's farther away from the door now. It occurs to me that some people only have book smarts.

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#16. But somewhere out there is the one that matters. Somewhere out there is the one that I came for, one who is strong enough to squeeze the breath out of living throats.
I think of her again. Anna. Anna Dressed in Blood.

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#17. How she poisoned her sisters so slyly and quietly that it took them days to die. How when it was over they looked so peaceful that had it not been for the froth on their lips, you would have thought they had died in their sleep.

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#18. The sisters she loved at the Black Cottage are gone. Arsinoe saw her chance and she took it. So next time, Mirabella will take hers aswell.

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#19. I'm just saying it doesn't always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn't make them less real.

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#20. You guys didn't try to do anything to me," I say honestly. "You brought me to a house because you wanted to freak me out. You didn't know that your friend would wind up getting torn in half and disemboweled.

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#21. Will Carmel eventually forget about this adventurous time with us? Will she shun Thomas and go back to being the center of SWC? She wouldn't do that, would she? I mean, she did just compare me to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My opinion of her isn't the highest right now.

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#22. This is my favorite part of the hunting. Getting to know them . Hearing their legends. I want them to be as large in my mind as they can possibly be, and when I see them I don't want to be disappointed.

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#23. Everyone else has sort of scattered off to their respective corners. I suppose everyone's doing some thinking, maybe saying some prayers. Hopefully Thomas and Carmel are making out in a closet.

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#24. And thus was their burial of Apollo, god of the sun.

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#25. The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.

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#26. If you find a way, I'll be there. Right to the end of the earth and over it.

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#27. I live dangerously enough. Now what's this about condoms or tigers?

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#28. You know what you are, don't you?" she asks. "You're my salvation. My way to atone. To pay for everything I've done."
"Anna," I say. "Don't ask me to do this.

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#29. Every gift is light and dark.

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#30. He almost killed my friends. Fuck that guy.

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#31. I had a million different dreams but none of them was stronger than the rest. In the end they probably would have paralyzed me.

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#32. Four small flames ignite and illuminate our faces and chests, revealing expressions that are part wonder, part fear, and part feeling stupid.

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#33. Sometime playing dumb is the only move you've got.

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#34. Jestine and I lock eyes. She's going to look away first. Even if my eyeballs have to completely dry out.

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#35. What are you going to fill it with?" she asks. "Holy water or something?"
"Probably Dasani," Thomas replies.

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#36. That's what they call you, on the mainland. Witches. That's what my father says that you are. Monsters. Beasts. But you are not a monster." "No," she says quietly. "And neither are the rest

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#37. One kiss leads to more. They will have so little of each other, they must take what they can.

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#38. I peek over the back of the couch and there she is, my goddess of death, her hair snaking out in a great black cloud, her teeth grinding hard enough to make living gums bleed.

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#39. Yes. Smashing. You'll be just like those four chaps in the movie. You know the one, with the oversized marshmallow.

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#40. Today it is busy and decked with finery. It is packed to purpose with poisons and poisoners. If a house could smile, Greavesdrake would be grinning.

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#41. If your mom's a witch, what does that make you? Harry Potter?

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#42. I'm dead. I can't be all right any more than I can be not all right.

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#43. I hit him with a board; of course he's got a concussion. Don't be an idiot.

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#44. The urge to fall [in love] was utterly new and made her [Athena] dizzy. He [Odysseus] could catch her and hold her up. She knew he could.
If this is how Aphrodite feels every day, it's no wonder she's such an idiot.

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#45. When he realizes that Carmel's standing behind me, he quickly checks his face for drool and tries to smooth his hair down. Unsuccessfully.

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#46. They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.

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#47. Sweetheart, my father and I have put more ghosts in the ground than you can count.

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#48. Imagination has a poor memory, it slinks away and gets blurry. Eyes remember much longer.

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#49. Her whole life they have thought her a failure, yet at the first hint of hope, they move to follow her, as if it is what they wanted all along.
Perhaps it was.

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#50. If you've been reading the Mortal Instruments for any length of time, you know that only two things are certain: Dead doesn't necessarily mean dead, and you never know whose blood is going to wind up running through your veins.

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#51. She crossed over death to call me. I crossed through Hell to find her.

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#52. It feels so separate, like I've touched something that's taken the color out of me. Or maybe I'm in color now and they're in black and white.

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#53. Carmel's a very pretty girl," she says hopefully. "Thomas seems to think so." She sighs, then smiles. "Good. He could use a woman's touch."
"Mom," I groan. "Gross." "Not that kind of touch," she laughs.

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#54. In a
few hours, she'll see Anna for herself. She'll see
her dressed in blood, her hair floating like it's
suspended in water, eyes black and shining. And
when she does, she won't be able to catch her
breath.

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#55. Life's more interesting with gray areas.

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#56. Having no choice doesn't seem fair.But having all of them isn't really easier.

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#57. Thomas grins, grabs her hand, and kisses it. Since they just got back together, I'm willing to let this PDA business slide.

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#58. It's the twenty-first century. Arriving to find a bunch of old dudes in brown robes would be equally weird.

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#59. I've been Obeahed by an Obeahman? Is this like how the Smurfs say they smurfing smurfed all the time?

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#60. ... you'll need some help getting acquainted. I'm Carmel Jones." "Theseus Cassio Lowood. What kind of a parent names their kid Carmel?" She laughs. "What kind of a parent names their kid Theseus Cassio?" "Hippies," I reply. "Exactly.

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#61. The cupboards start opening and closing by themselves, drawers slamming shut and the walls start to bleed. Slamming doors and smashing plates. Anna is acting like a common poltergeist. How embarrassing.

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#62. Death is my world. Everything else, school and friends, they're just things that get in the way of my next ghost.

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#63. She's like Bruce Lee, the Hulk and Neo from The Matrix all rolled in to one.

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#64. He seems to be a bird of few words.

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#65. Death is my world.

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#66. The blood inside her hands hurt and felt slushy, like if you tore them open it'd look like a red ICEE.

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#67. Fear kept you sharp, that it kept you steadfastly holding on to your life.

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#68. Arsinoe hides everything behind the same easygoing smirk.

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#69. I'm not a superhero, I say. It's an awful tag. It's egotistical, and it doesn't fit. I don't parade around in spandex.

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#70. Everyone seems to know more than I do, and being on the shallow end of the information pool is starting to piss me off.

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#71. Part of her followed him, wherever it was that he went.

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#72. He was a god, he said, and always had been. Or at least, that was what they used to be called. What they were now, he didn't know. It seemed like the wrong word when he was so limited, so much less than he'd been before.

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#73. By the time I had gotten off the phone, I knew that I was going after Anna. My gut told me that she wasn't just a story. And besides, I wanted to see her, dressed in blood.

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#74. His skin is black as a struck match, cracked and oozing liquid metal heat, like he's covered by a cooling layer of lava. The eyes stand out bright white. I can't make out from this distance if they have corneas. God I hope they have corneas. I hate that creepy weird-eye shit.

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#75. Every time I question him about the feasibility, he smiles at me like he's Yoda and I'm just a dumbass without the Force.

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#76. I wish this knife was good for something besides death, that I could cut through time and walk into that house, into that kitchen where he trapped her, and get her out of there. I would make sure she had the future she should have had.

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#77. Whatever wind fails to escape the Volroy through its many upstairs windows falls down into the cells to rot.

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#78. In the sixth row of the theater, in the third chair in, Anna winks at me. Or maybe she just blinks. I can't tell. She's missing half of her face.

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#79. Chef?" Carmel exclaims. "I could give a shit about a chef. I'm going to find the most expensive thing in that kitchen, eat one bite, and throw the rest on the floor. Then I'm going to break some plates.

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#80. I don't have my knife," I mumble.
"Don't start that," Anna says. She walks away from me sharply. "Arthur without Excalibur was still Arthur.

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#81. I don't think it is strange at all,' Arsinoe says. 'Don't you see? It has to be one of us. It has to be her. My whole life I have heard that it has to be her. That I have to die, so that she can lead. That I do not matter, because she's here.

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#82. I love her."
"She's dead."
"That doesn't mean to me what it does to other people.

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#83. I make my way to her table, seeing her eyes growing wider as I do. Ten or so other girls probably just developed instantaneous crushes on me, because they see Carmel likes me. Or so the sociologist in my brain says.

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#84. Land of the Dead? Is that what you dream about?" she asks. "Boy who kills ghosts for a living?"
"No. I dream about penguins doing bridge construction. Don't ask why.

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#85. The state of shock is losing its
charm. I want my brain back. Can't it just shake itself off like
a dog already and get back to work?

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#86. What is it about the sight of your mother that makes everything fireside-warm and full of dancing Muppets?

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#87. Queen Mirabella stands at the altar of the Goddess. Sweating, but not from heat. Elementals are not bothered much by temperature, and if they were, no one inside could complain of being warm.

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#88. I want revenge." She whispers, and her fingers trail bloody streaks down Natalia's arms.
"And then I want my crown.

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#89. You're the voice
of reason. You think of the things we forget about.

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#90. This is weird. There's a dead woman in front of me like dozens of other dead women I've seen. But this one is a queen, and a famous one. If it's possible to be starstruck by the dead, then I guess that's what's happening.

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#91. I don't appreciate the implication that I'm going to hurt someone.

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#92. God, living people are irritating.

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#93. If this is mytstical, what the heck is Advil going to do about it?

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#94. It's like I'm trapped in one of those omniscient dreams where you just watch yourself do stupid shit, yelling at yourself about how stupid it is, and your dream-self just keeps doing what it's doing anyway.

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