Top 100 Nenia Campbell Quotes
#2. If you don't feel the same way about him, if you're just leading him on, you need to tell him that. I've seen too many nice guys get shafted because a girl can't get over some jerk.
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#3. What happened out there?"
"I almost got quarking toasted by a dragon."
"A dragon," he repeats, scandalized. "Are you mad? Or have you been skulking around the bars of Barbary XIII?
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#4. Deep space rendered mortal time-lines inconsequential. Few things were as old, or pervasive, as the vast, encroaching
darkness of the universe.
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#5. One doesn't need to be taught fear when one is the hunted.
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#6. Nothing about me scares him, because he's always able to match it. We're two peas in a fucked-up pod.
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#7. Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart.
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#8. They stare at her, not seeing the woman she is or the girl she was none too long ago, but a mere puzzle. An intractable puzzle - bemusing and a little frustrating, but capable of being solved nonetheless.
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#10. Vol picks up the cup of tea in both hands and takes a long sip. Mm, grass-clippings. Her favourite.
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#11. You're going to the ball?"
"Aren't you? I was led to believe we had no choice in the matter."
Vol cracks a wry smile. "Ah. You've met Kira, then."
"If that self-congratulatory guinea pig in my doorway this morning was Kira, then yes. We're acquainted.
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#12. Hatred is as easy as slipping on a well-worn woolen cloak. If only it provided the comfort of one.
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#14. That son of a bitch. Looked like my expiration date was sooner than I'd thought. The bastard had fucked me up the ass at my own game.
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#15. Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.
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#16. She seemed like the kind of woman who would fall in love with the sky.
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#17. I need you alive. I need you breathing." He shook his head. "I need you.
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#18. The song matches my malaise, and in spite of the heat and the brightness radiating from outside, I could be in the darkest depths of winter, with rain thundering against fragile glass panes.
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#19. I'm not asking you to come-"
"Thanks." Vol studies herself in the cracked mirror and secures the braid with the tie.
"I'm telling you to come." Kira's mouth hardens. "This is not optional.
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#20. Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.
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#22. Time can be as fluid as water, and never in the way you'd like; it slows down to a standstill when you wish you could get things over with, and rushes by in a blur when you wish things would last.
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#23. We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.
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#24. Why do you fight me?" His voice is soft again, as textured as velvet. "Can't you see I'm doing everything I can to help you?"
"Help yourself off the edge of a cliff," she growls.
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#25. In some ways blowjobs are better than sex because when you have a mouthful of cock you can't make snide comments.
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#27. I'm more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic.
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#28. Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was.
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#30. Not yet," he said. "You're beautiful, and it's killing me and I want to die a moment longer. Please.
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#31. Locking eyes with a shape-shifter was aggressive. Very aggressive. One generally didn't do that unless one wanted to fight. Or fuck.
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#32. That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.
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#33. There are two things about me you should know. Don't fight me, unless you're prepared to kill me. And don't kiss me, unless you're prepared to fuck me.
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#34. Be careful what you wish for. Especially out loud.
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#35. A story unwritten is without beginning or end. But in its potential lies another story; and in the heartbeat before pen meets page, both stories exist at once, reflecting endless permutations of the other, before one of them disappears forever.
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#36. We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are.
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#37. You should run from me while you can."
"Or what?"
"I'll catch you.
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#38. His mouth has always been like his ass - the most unbelievable shit comes out of it.
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#39. A lot of people have it in for me. It's practically a school sport.
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#40. That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.
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#41. You shouldn't be wandering around in
such a big city all by yourself. Even if it is Seattle.
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#42. Maybe that was the root of my dislike for her: she had what I wanted, which earned her my jealousy, and since I was ashamed of myself for wanting it, my scorn, as well.
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#43. Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away.
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#44. Yes. You're the only thing that matters right now." Michael, swaying a little over me, said, "You're trying to talk yourself into hating me when all I'm trying to do is keep you alive.
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#45. Satisfied he had made his point, he left me there to cough up blood and bile and impotent rage. And fear.
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#46. What if she wants to be hurt? What if, like a flint to tinder, I can coax her to flame? To burn for me, and only me? And I remember that girl running against the wind, and I know that there's no going back. I am her future - and she is simply that: mine.
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#47. Come closer, my dears, let me give you a warning,
Of the fate that befalls those who stay out past morning,
In the darkest hours before the dawn,
When witches roam and demons spawn,
And children die with spirit gone,
Magicked away in the gloaming.
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#48. There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey.
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#49. I bask in that sympathy because it's nice to have somebody who cares, even if it's the wrong person for the wrong reasons.
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#50. Life's a party. So smile and eat shit and pretend it's fucking caviar.
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#51. The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable.
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#52. If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with - and vice versa - the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.
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#54. We don't have dealings. He just stalks me. I'm popular like that.
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#55. People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else's.
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#56. Be my sonata, my cantata, my love
sing me something sweet
but not too sweet
(or i may grow deaf to our harmony
as we decrescendo into silence)
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#57. I didn't understand what it was about men - not all men, but a good portion of them - that turned a good, solid "NO" into an "I'm just playing coy; try harder.
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#59. Isn't that just typical. You're either asking for it, or having it forced upon you without your consent. Who decided women always have to be passive in sex?
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#60. Fuck your manners."
"You don't have to settle for just my manners.
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#61. Does your family play games, too?" She tries to sound off-hand.
"No. Just me - and my brother."
Which means her parents are in the casinos, then, leaving this kid in a collapsing mine. Okay, a virtual one, but still.
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#62. Jesus had been betrayed for thirty pieces of silver. I'd betrayed myself for soap.
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#63. What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?
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#64. Ignorance must be a fun place to live; my parents seem to vacation there year-round.
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#65. Just remember," he told her. "If you run from me, I will pursue.
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#66. As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight.
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#67. They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animals - if they didn't devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.
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#68. It wasn't that she was sad - sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.
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#69. I wanted to persuade her, but I didn't want to scare her, and I certainly didn't want to make her cry. I wanted her to be safe. I wanted her to be mine. I wanted to have my cake and eat it, too.
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#70. You couldn't find your dick in the dark, you scheming, sleaze-mongering scumwad.
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#71. Nothing is as deadly as the love of a powerful man.
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#72. Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.
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#73. Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.
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#75. I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws.
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#76. This softening she sees in me isn't enough to make me affectionate, but it's just enough to render me inept. I can't give her what she wants - virtuousness - or what she needs - protection.
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#77. No. Freud said it best, I think, when he said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Sometimes your mother's boyfriend is just a loser
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#78. Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure.
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#79. There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.
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#80. Careful," he said. "If you keep blushing like that I may do more than just draw you.
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#81. Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark.
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#82. We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.
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#83. Remember how it feels, Silent One. That murderous rage, and how it makes your blood boil. Remember, and let it carry you the rest of the way - only, learn to freeze it, as well, because the best killers are those who can put their desires on ice.
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#84. Some people are born to fandom, others have fandom thrust upon them.
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#85. Some of the cruelest men in the world were born with silver tongues. They could charm a bird right out of the sky, only to break its wings. And no men, nice or cruel, offer favors lightly - not strangers. Not to young women. Not without expecting something back in return.
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#86. Maybe that was why the French called orgasms "las petites morts": because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.
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#87. The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all the way at the bottom.
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#88. Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.
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#89. Don't tell me it's going to fucking be okay! I am not okay with being that fucker's pinata!
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#90. Woe to the deer who is courted by the charismatic wolf, or to the fly who is not immune to the sweet, sultry songs of the spider.
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#91. When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.
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#93. I know what it is to want something that could destroy you.
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#94. Fuck, Christina."
"Yes, fuck Christina. I think she'd like that.
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#95. You were a well-respected agent, Michael, a rags-to-riches fairytale ending. Until you became disgraced. Now it appears your own organization wishes to be rid of you. Why is this?"
"My gun turned back into a pumpkin.
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#96. You're screwed, scum, and not in the way you'd like, either. Irony's a bitch, isn't it?"
"You wouldn't say that if you knew who I am."
Vol's bounty hunter laughs. "Trust me, I've seen an asshole before. Drop the sword now.
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#97. I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine.
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#98. I was afraid and knew I had every right to be, but he had awakened a part of me that no longer cared.
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#99. He was a phoenix of blood, rising from the ashes of those who had fallen and suffered before him.
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#100. People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone.
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