Klause Quotes

#1. If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know."
"I know," Klause said.
"I know you know," Violet said

Lemony Snicket

#2. Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

Tom Kristensen

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Annette Curtis Klause

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Annette Curtis Klause

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

Annette Curtis Klause

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

Annette Curtis Klause

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

Annette Curtis Klause

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

Annette Curtis Klause

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Annette Curtis Klause

#18. 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

#19. I don't think the state of California realized there would be this many people here caught up in the freeway system.

Richard Grieco

#20. 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

#21. We humans have a lamentable tendency to spend more time theorizing the reasons behind human suffering, than working to alleviate human suffering.

Terryl L. Givens

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

Annette Curtis Klause

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I mean, who wants to live waking up ... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

Mitchell Baker

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

Annette Curtis Klause

#27. 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

#28. Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.

David Quammen

#29. 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

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

Annette Curtis Klause