Annette Curtis Klause Quotes

#1. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hated as the other.

Annette Curtis Klause

#2. The challenge of writing books for teenagers is walking the fine line between truth and what the publishers, parents, and the more conservative librarians want to hear.

Annette Curtis Klause

#3. Jesus Christ to me, is probably the most compassionate and revolutionary thinker of all time.

Scott Fujita

#4. History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.

C.V. Wedgwood

#5. I want to lay my kill at your feet.

Annette Curtis Klause

#6. My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.

Annette Curtis Klause

#7. It's the quiet, humble guy that's not saying anything. That's the really dangerous one.

Carlos Condit

#8. Soon the cold would force them inside, so they clutched at lost summer.

Annette Curtis Klause

#9. I kissed her hand. My seduction technique is best filed under Obvious.

Michelle Tea

#10. A female on the loose was a dangerous creature.

Annette Curtis Klause

#11. In his wolf-skin he was as strong as any of them, but he was a gentle person in many ways. He'd feel so bad about failing he'd probably step aside for someone else without a fight.

Annette Curtis Klause

#12. Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

Wayne Shorter

#13. I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries?
We all have the right to be different, don't we?

Annette Curtis Klause

#14. The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden.
"The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "My
people. A large amorphous mass that keeps on changing size, hasn't
much apparent use, sometimes makes you sick, and occasionally breaks
off into smaller parts that act exactly like the parent.

Annette Curtis Klause

#15. Life is an illusion that last too little.

Annette Curtis Klause

#16. He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough.

Annette Curtis Klause

#17. A pentagram is burning
in your eyes
and soft, pale twists of wolfbane
squeeze your heart.
A grinding pain
is writhing in your thighs
the crunch of bones
proclaims the changes start.

Annette Curtis Klause

#18. I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix.

Elie Wiesel

#19. The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.

Annette Curtis Klause

#20. Vivian, I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient I've brought you someone else's."
"Rafe you jerk, this is a sheep's heart.

Annette Curtis Klause

#21. Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.

Michael Foot

#22. Puck shook her head ruefully. "We haven't even solved the first problem, and I'm worrying about the next one. I must be an idiot."
"No," Hush said, wiggling an impossible finger at her. "Only kindness. Very much kindness.

Annette Curtis Klause

#23. When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Phoebe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

Annette Curtis Klause

#24. Light-headed, my body trembling from shoes to shoulders in random spells, like I swallowed a vibrator. It's always like this when I'm on the sauce. I dosed six hours ago.

David Wong

#25. Three cheers for Sheriff Wilson. - Bucky Dideron

Annette Curtis Klause

#26. Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

Margaret Thatcher

#27. All the best people are different -look at superheroes. After all, if superpowers were normal, everyone would have them.

Fredrik Backman

#28. Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.

Annette Curtis Klause

#29. Believe this, he whispered, and kissed her with the sharp, sleek kiss, the silver kiss, so swift and true, and razor sharp, and her warmth was flowing into him.

Annette Curtis Klause

#30. I will howl for you, human boy ( ... ). I will hunt you in my girl skin but I'll
celebrate as wolf.

Annette Curtis Klause

#31. You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.

Annette Curtis Klause

#32. What we say here every day is that our success is really based on our members' success, our community's success. We've created an infrastructure and laid some basic ground rules to create this marketplace.

Pierre Omidyar

#33. Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money.

Elsa Bakalar

#34. In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chococlate in my mouth,the one as hateful as the other

Annette Curtis Klause

#35. It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.

Armistead Maupin

#36. I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.

Richie Sambora

#37. I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything he writes.

Caroline Thompson

#38. What red lips you have," he said in her ear. Did she dare say it? "All the better to kiss you with, my dear," she replied. And then their lips met.

Annette Curtis Klause

#39. I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.

Annette Curtis Klause