Quotes About Criminy

#1. It's a little scary, what you do."
As I tried to figure out how to respond, and with words as sharp and cold as the blade of a knife, Criminy said, "If you're scared of her talent, then you don't truly know what fear is.

Delilah S. Dawson

#2. What a grim feeling it is to come across a written line so exceptionally inspiring that your first reaction is, 'Criminy, why didn't I ever think to write that!'

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. Why, Criminy Stain," I said. "You're a romantic."
"Oh, no," he said with a grin. "I'm fiendish and unscrupulous, a vicious killer and a thief and a bloodthirsty monster. And maybe a little romantic. But don't tell anyone, or my reputation's shot.

Delilah S. Dawson

#4. The word WANTED slithered across the top of each image in elegant calligraphy. The drawing of Criminy was spot-on, but the one of me was more than a little imaginative. I looked like an evil seductress, some sort of vampy witch-queen.
I liked it.
I wanted a copy for my wagon.

Delilah S. Dawson

#5. I told him my own story, from locket to fainting. But I left out the part about how I was supposed to be Criminy's magic mail-order bride.

Delilah S. Dawson

#6. Criminy?" I asked.
"Hmm?"
"What are we doing?"
"I'm having a meal with a friend while you squirm like a child," he said serenely.

Delilah S. Dawson

#7. When I got close to him, he smelled clean and steamy, like a late June-rain. And I was reduced to a ridiculous, blubbering pile of melting Jell-O. Criminy.

Holly Schindler

#8. Criminy. Whatever. Just do something."
"Criminy?" Than stared. "Seriously? Big, bad, Mohawk-haired demon says 'criminy'?"
"Yes, criminy." Hades rubbed his bare chest. "And, fuck off.

Larissa Ione

#9. I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

Warren Christopher

#10. I would burn down the world for you," he whispered fiercely. "Your world or my own. I would rip down the entire city with my bare hands without a second thought. I don't need to taste anything else, I don't need a comparison.

Delilah S. Dawson

#11. I do want lots of things, most of which are under your dress.

Delilah Dawson

#12. The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

Craig McCaw

#13. Our power comes from the earth

Luis Alberto Urrea

#14. People always think I get really good reviews, but I don't. That's why I don't go on the Internet much - because you can go down a dark hole looking at stuff. Once, I clicked on my name and freaked out. It's too bizarre, it's too weird, it's too unsettling.

Tim Burton

#15. Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others

Yana Toboso

#16. Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.

Simon Sinek

#17. Nobody's seen all my work. No one. No one in the world has seen all my movies. Some things just never came out ... some things may still come out.

Rutger Hauer

#18. One Hyde Park squatted next to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel like a stack of office furniture, and with all the elegance and charm of the inside of a photocopier. Albeit a brand new photocopier that doubled as a fax and document scanner.

Ben Aaronovitch

#19. What you're seeing is pain. And you're the only one who sees it," he said more softly. "You're the only one who can cut me, and you wound me deep.

Delilah S. Dawson

#20. He was finally able to bask in his own existence; and he found it splendid.

Patrick Suskind

#21. I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Oscar Niemeyer

#22. What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?

Thomas Malory

#23. The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value.

M.F. Moonzajer

#24. He sighed. Look, love, I know I seem like a tactical genius, but really, I'm just a magician who occasionally kills a bunny or drives a train.

Delilah S. Dawson

#25. Honestly," he said with a grin, "how would that have worked? Oh, hello dream lover. Would you drink some of my blud so I won't murder you in front of all these nice people?"

Delilah S. Dawson

#26. Dammit, woman! You're scent, your stupid bloody delicious scent lingering in every crevice of my body and my wardrobe, driving me nearly mad. Do you know what it's like to want something so badly, to have it so close, and still feel that it's out of your reach? Out of control?

Delilah S. Dawson