Lilia Ford > Lilia's Quotes

“Is he my competition?” I asked.
“Everyone is your competition.” Peter lifted his hand to his
eyes and began lowering it incrementally. “It goes normal human
beings, crazies, republicans, my hand, imaginary characters,
corpses and then, in a moment of lustful psychosis, you.” By the
time he was done, his hand was below the table.
Ouch.”
― Dani Alexander

“Staring at Joey's eyes blinking up from his pale face was a bit like inhaling a pound of rock candy while watching puppies play.”
― K.A. Mitchell, Collision Course

“Why?" he asked instead. "Why do such things when my death would have benefited you far more?"
Yhalen bent over his knees, resting forehead on his forearm, perhaps not willing to answer, or not able to, strange creature that he was.
"Is that the way your people think?" he asked finally, as he turned his head to peer up at Bloodraven through the thick fall of the hair around his face. "That death is more beneficial than life?”
― P.L. Nunn, Bloodraven

“It was a simple lesson, really. He could never, ever allow misplaced ideals to seduce him. He would not employ death as a tool.”
― Bonnie Dee, The Nobleman and the Spy

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
― Ira Glass

“Louisa raised an eyebrow. "Is he—how shall I put it delicately—a simple man?”
― Heidi Cullinan, Dirty Laundry

“More sheltering is rarely an antidote for too much in the first place.”
― Ginn Hale, Lord of the White Hell, Book 1

“Or maybe aliens had abducted him—yeah, that was what happened. Knowing Evan, he'd spot the anal probe and want to try it out on them.”
― Finn Marlowe, Not His Kiss to Take

“He was right. I knew the score. He’d never pretended it was other than it was--whatever the hell that was.

I’d never kidded myself there was any chance for us. Well, not often anyway.
I guess my mistake had been in believing he was too smart and too honest not to eventually realize…

Not his feelings for me--because I didn’t think what he felt for me was that significant--but his own true nature. How could he deny what he was? How could he choose to live such a profound and cancerous deception?”
― Josh Lanyon, The Hell You Say

“He'd swiftly collected those monsters' heads, tying them together with a piece of the rope she'd hoped never to see again, then strung them over his shoulder. Periodically, he offered his catch to her.

"No, no, I have a pair just like them at home," she'd said. "I would just regift them.”
― Kresley Cole, Demon from the Dark

“Jacqs' attempts at initiating sexual relationships usually involved either money or abject failure.”
― Lyn Gala, The Only Way Out Is In

“Y’look like someone told you they’d stopped making lube.”
― K.A. Mitchell, Collision Course

“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
― Joss Whedon

“I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari—I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful.”
― Ilona Andrews, On the Edge

“What if his advisor found out? Would getting caught having public sex do something to his teaching assistantship? Would he still be able to get a job? Would getting felt up in a laundromat inadvertently lead to him living on the streets, starving and exposed, selling his body for sex, which meant he would contract a disease and die?”
― Heidi Cullinan, Dirty Laundry

“Sadan was so...beautiful. There seemed no other word for him, even if he had proved to be an ass and deserved to die in lakes of his own blood.”
― J.C. Owens

“She resolved not to beat herself up because she was attracted to a deadly, vampiric maniac that she yearned to kill.”
― Kresley Cole, Lothaire

“First we talked about girls. Not girls like any of us had ever seen in the flesh, but those girls in magazines with huge tits and puffed-up lips and sleepy eyes, like they'd been fucked hard all night and they were mostly pouting now because the guy finally pulled out. We talked about those girls a lot. And it was all talk.”
― Lisa Henry, Dark Space

“I was not insecure. I was a perfectly normal combination of arrogant and narcissistic.”
― Dani Alexander, Shattered Glass

“Salem snorted. "The Vamp basically told her, 'I'm in a weird place in me life right now, and I need some space.' Of course, he told her that by pointing a bloody sword at her whilst bellowing, 'I forsake you!' in front of the whole kingdom.”
― Kresley Cole, Shadow's Claim

“I thought they expected you to be controversial at UCLA?”
“I believe the Board of Regents draws the line at sacrificial murder.”
― Josh Lanyon, The Hell You Say

“Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.”
― Ilona Andrews, Bayou Moon

“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...”
― Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake

“I never knew I could hate someone as deeply as I do you.”
“I often help others discover the outer limits of their hatred. It’s a talent of mine.”
― Kresley Cole, Lothaire

“It could be worse," he said finally. "Efrenia married an arsonist. Jake's wife is a kleptomaniac. I suppose, a psychopathic spree killer isn't that odd of a choice, considering.”
― Ilona Andrews, Bayou Moon

“It figures—it’s always either the butler or the resurrected mate.”
― Kresley Cole, Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

“She'd never seen a monster like that before, had never heard of one in all the Lore. When she grappled with the question of what it was, her sharply honed scientifical mind deduced one answer: manbearpig.”
― Kresley Cole, Demon from the Dark

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Jenny-girl, you might say that the motto of the Black family is 'what's another brother?”
― Lilia Ford

“If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
― Julia Child