Ghastek Quotes

#1. I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

Matthew Ashford

#2. The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk, put them into the vamp's mouth, and pulled them up by their edges.
"What are you doing?" Ghastek asked.
"My hole puncher broke."
"You have no respect for the undead.

Ilona Andrews

#3. I did some thinking."
"That is a very dangerous pastime," Ghastek said.

Ilona Andrews

#4. Ghastek, why haven't you married?" I asked.
He gave me a thin-lipped smile. "Because if I were to get married, I would want to have a family. To me, marriage means children."
"So what's the problem? Shooting blanks?"
Desandra asked.
Kill me.

Ilona Andrews

#5. I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.

J. B. Smoove

#6. If you ever decide on a career change, I'd avoid motivational speaking.

Ilona Andrews

#7. You got anything more to eat?"
He walked into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and pulled out a cube of butter. Before I could stop him he took a bite. He worked the butter around inn his mouth, then swallowed. "Bit odd," he said, setting the rest of the cube onto the counter.

Suzanne Selfors

#8. I felt enough of the effect of withdrawing from the world then, to see that it led to an antisocial and misanthropic state of mind, which severely punished him who gives in to it. And it will be a lesson I never shall forget as to myself.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. There is no wrong way to be a woman

Denise Bidot

#10. Three things are forever consistent: the passing of time, the rotation of the Earth, and the ringmaster of Vagabond Circus.

Sarah Noffke

#11. If your head explodes can I have your stuff?

Ilona Andrews

#12. Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.

Ilona Andrews

#13. If there's one quality I hate in a woman, it's modesty. Besides making me, with my trombone mouth, feel vaguely uncouth, I think it's a chickenshit response to the demands of the marketplace, or the universe, not that I can tell them apart.

Emily Carter

#14. Keep a journal of disappointments, failures, and self-destructive actions. It's important to write this down because these are the kinds of things your self-serving bias will want to forget or minimize.

Richard O'Connor

#15. The older women, the married ones and the widows, wear black clothes and no makeup, as I used to do. When I was in the later months of pregnancy, they would smile at me, as if I was almost one of them. Now they smile at Sarah first.

Margaret Atwood

#16. I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#17. Does Curran not involve you in his strategic sessions?" Ghastek asked.
"Nope, I'm just here to look pretty.

Ilona Andrews

#18. Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.

Ellen Willis

#19. I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

#20. One does not simply ring Roland.
Oh boy. I supposed I would get a lecture on the dangers of wandering into Mordor next.

Ilona Andrews