Top 100 Kendare Blake Quotes
#2. In her mind, every last Queen lies at the bottom of the sea, drowned by the Goddess the moment she was done with them.
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#4. One kiss leads to more. They will have so little of each other, they must take what they can.
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#5. 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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#6. Damsels? You get sliced open, burned, and dashed against rocks about a thousand times or so. Then we'll see who the damsel is.
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#7. What are you going to fill it with?" she asks. "Holy water or something?"
"Probably Dasani," Thomas replies.
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#8. 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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#9. Sometime playing dumb is the only move you've got.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. Why are you here? Did you come to try to kill me again?" "Oddly enough, no. I - I had a bad dream. I needed to talk to someone.
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#14. 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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#15. 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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#17. I live dangerously enough. Now what's this about condoms or tigers?
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#18. If you find a way, I'll be there. Right to the end of the earth and over it.
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#19. She doesn't like to talk about him, and I know that she hasn't been the same since he died. She's not quite here anymore; there's something missing in all of her smiles, like a blurry spot or a camera lens out of focus. Part of her followed him, wherever it was he went.
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#20. Is this the river of hate, or the river of smartass?
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#21. I sigh. "So now what? Can I possibly tell you to go home and forget about this? Is there any way that I can avoid us forming some peppy group of - " Before my mouth can finish, I lean forward and groan into my hands. Carmel gets it first, and laughs. "A peppy group of ghostbusters?" she asks.
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#22. The thought makes me reach back for my knife, my sharp, throat-cutting security blanket, as I look around.
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#23. Just let me kill you," I mutter in frustration.
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#24. If I allowed it, he'd strap on a proton pack and follow me around the country
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#25. I don't know why, but for a second, my brain was sure that it would be Anna, that she'd be pounding the door down off its hinges with blackveined fists, ready to catch me with my pants down. But we were just doing dishes. My pants are firmly affixed.
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#26. I want to get some sleep, so if there's something mind-numbingly disturbing you want to show me, can we just get it over with?
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#27. I look up at the moon. It's bright, and
cold, and still looks full to me. But the
calendar says that it's waning, and people
get paid to make calendars, so I guess that
we're ready.
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#28. It crouches like a spider, waiting for us ti get close enough, pretending to be inanimate.
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#29. 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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#30. Imagination has a poor memory, it slinks away and gets blurry. Eyes remember much longer.
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#31. I've sort of been slacking off in my voodoo studies.I've trigonometry, you know?
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#32. I saved you,' she says. 'I will not let you die.'
She kisses him hungrily, her touch waking him up, pulling him out of the dark. He feels like he belongs in her arms. She will not let him die. She will make them both warm.
She will set them both on fire.
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#33. This is what men risk so much for; this shiver, this acute heat and desire. This is what they think eternity feels like.
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#34. Sweetheart, my father and I have put more ghosts in the ground than you can count.
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#36. They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.
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#37. I even had this idea that the knife stopped working, that after a certain time it just stops working for you, when your number is up. I thought maybe it was me who had done it. That I killed him just by growing older, and being ready to replace him.
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#38. I can't believe that she's questioning the existence of magic when she's standing before me dead and talking.
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#39. He says you kill ghosts for a living. Like you're a ghostbuster or something." "I'm not a ghostbuster.
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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. I hit him with a board; of course he's got a concussion. Don't be an idiot.
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#44. Cas, superheroes go to college too" " I'm not a superhero mum
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#45. We've got our heads pulled low inside of our hooded sweatshirts and our eyes are shifty. We look exactly like you'd expect someone to look if they were minutes away from committing a major crime.
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#46. I'm dead. I can't be all right any more than I can be not all right.
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#47. If your mom's a witch, what does that make you? Harry Potter?
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#48. 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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#49. Rolanth Temple is a weather queen's temple, open to the east and west, the roof supported by beams and thick marble columns. Air moves through no matter the season, and no one shivers, except for the priestesses.
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#50. 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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#51. Don't be afraid of the dark, Cas. But don't let them tell you that everything that's there in the dark is also there in
the light. It isn't.
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#52. Stop poking your nose around where it doesn't belong, someone cuts it off. There's something else going on around you, like a storm.
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#53. 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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#54. What do you think the Order is going to do?" he asks.
"Help us open a door to Hell, if we're lucky," I reply. Lucky. Ha ha. The irony.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. Don't profane yourself, or the Biodag Dubh.
Oh, Mary Ann. Me and the Beedak Doo are just fine.
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#59. 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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#60. Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.
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#61. The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.
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#62. The accusations make me want to be kid again. Why isn't my mommy calling them big fat liars?
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#63. I like ordinary. People only wish for adventure until they're stuck in the middle of one. Haven't you ever seen The Fellowship of the Ring?
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#64. I wouldn't touch New Orleans with a ten-foot pole. That town is haunted as shit, and all the better for it. Nowhere in the world loves its ghosts more than that city.
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#65. You'd better eat that," she says.
"I'm taking it easy on my stomach," I protest. "Come on. It just had a knife in it.
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#66. But hey, at least we'll have this strange story to tell, love and death and blood and daddy-issues. And holy crap, I'm a psychiatrist's wet dream.
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#67. 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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#68. ...I want to press my head into the steering wheel until the horn goes off. That way the horn will cover my screams
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#69. You're sure you didn't leave? Didn't try to explore Thunder Bay again, maybe go down to the park and, I don't know, dismember some poor jogger?
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#70. I think I killed a girl who looked like this once.
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#71. Move, hunt, kill. Like lather, rinse, and repeat.
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#72. 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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#73. She's standing above me the goddess of death, black lips and cold hands.
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#75. Can you fight?"
Jestine nods in my direction. "I can take Cas on pretty easily."
"Is that supposed to impress me?
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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. I can't believe I'm being so emo. I'm complaining to a girl who was brutally murdered at sixteen.
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#79. And thus was their burial of Apollo, god of the sun.
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#80. I don't care what your name is," she hisses. "And I don't care who you are. If you don't get him some help, I will burn your fucking place down." Go Carmel.
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#81. If only it was an island rather than a pretty sleeping dog with sand on its paws and cliffs on its shoulders, waiting to wake it up and tear it.
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#84. 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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#85. I think of her again. Anna. Anna Dressed in Blood. I wonder what tricks she'll try. I wonder if she'll be clever. Will she float? Will she laugh or scream?
How will she try to kill me?
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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. We walk around like a photograph that my dad's been cut out of.
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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. It was only a joke, Mia," says Bree gently. "Of course I do not wish that. No one really wishes to be queen.
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#95. 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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#96. I was ordinary," she said. "I blended in." "Impossible. With Aidan? You can't blend in with something that pretty on your arm.
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#97. 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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#98. It's shitty I guess. They're my friends. But ... everything I want to talk about I can't say to them. It feels so separate, like I've touched something that's taken the color out of me.
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#99. I jerk my head toward Thomas and immediately curse myself for trying to be a smartass. My head is not healthy enough for smartassery.
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#100. I knew they were cruel. Maybe I felt ... sorry for him." I snort. "Sorry for me? I could've handled those guys." "They smashed the back of your head in with a board from my house.
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