Heffner Quotes

#1. Father never went into depth about what happened if I woke up, unable to remember how I'd died, but most definitely in the hands of those not selected to have s'mores and sleepovers for all of eternity.

Heather Heffner

#2. When you face the vampyres, you fight with passion, because you can see a new sunrise beyond their darkness. A life beyond their misery. And you're going to make sure everyone else wakes up with you to see it.

Heather Heffner

#3. Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.

Marcus Garvey

#4. You have seen the suffering that creates the greatest and most beautiful of things. It also creates the greatest of evils.

Heather Heffner

#5. We're only five years apart," I said defiantly. "If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we're near normal.

Heather Heffner

#6. The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth to join them. The higher they rose into the zenith of the heavens, the further night was chased back, until a great and radiant being resumed its throne in the sky.

Heather Heffner

#7. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.

Elaine Heffner

#8. ... the door banged wide open, and the most striking man I had ever seen stood in the frame, the black winds whipping around him like a chariot of storm clouds.

Heather Heffner

#9. Selfless giving means forgeting about yourself. It means letting go and doing something crazy.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I was falling for the man who had turned me. He could never know.

Heather Heffner

#11. But stones, too, can lie.

Amy Hennig

#12. There is a rule in Hell: Don't trust anyone who takes time out of their day to help you.

Heather Heffner

#13. The insane and irrational springs of wickedness in most men ...

John Maynard Keynes

#14. The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#15. It is not often one chooses a demon over an angel.
So they told me. But this demon was the only one who made me feel safe.

Heather Heffner

#16. The Bloodsucker Queen has lived for what, a millennium? She can wait on her decaying ass a little while longer.

Heather Heffner

#17. It felt as if I'd been teleported to the dark side of the moon, forced to gaze out at the stars and wonder which one I'd come from.

Heather Heffner

#18. Behind lay loneliness and delusions. Ahead lay answers, and yes, Riley. So bent double beneath my load, but naked no longer, I followed the two demons deeper into Hell.

Heather Heffner

#19. I want to be humbled. I want to meet people more messed up than I am. I want to get lost and come out the other end having no idea who I am.

Heather Heffner

#20. I found it easier to stare out into the infinite blackness, away from the fire burning itself out in his eyes.

Heather Heffner

#21. It's been a complicated decade for me." She

Dennis Lehane

#22. I loved the way his eyes glowed when they looked at me. My piece of Earth.
I kissed it one more time, gently, and let it go.

Heather Heffner

#23. There's always hope ... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

Orson Scott Card

#24. I blew a strand of black hair from my face. "A demon treating another with kindness is something I have yet to see."
"Careful," the demon whispered. "You may have already seen the rough shape and form it takes in this world, and yet you do not recognize it.

Heather Heffner