Jenna Levine > Quotes

“Do not think for one moment that you are replaceable, Cassie Greenberg,” he said. He sounded almost angry. “For you are anything but.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“Over the past two weeks I’ve discovered that in this city of millions, you are one of a kind.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“When I think about Cassie
never returning to me it makes me sad
Waking up in the evening isn't exciting
anymore now that I know I won't
be seeing her face.


So you're into her, is what I'm hearing.


Absolutely not. I am NOT "into her."
I just like her drawings.
And her everything.


Oh, this is gonna be good.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“And there was my most prized possession: a framed oil painting of Edward Cullen on the wall above the sink, sparkly and magnificent as he gazed moodily into the middle distance.”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“also need to borrow your little plastic money card thing one last time.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“And, yes, okay, he was a vampire. That did present some legitimate challenges. But that didn't change how good he was or the fact that I wanted him more than I'd ever wanted anyone in my life.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“Everything I have heard about the internet makes it sound like a cancer upon the modern world. I am not certain I want it.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“But for you I would brave a blizzard just to see you smile”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“I don't think there's anything particularly special about me at all."
His jaw clenched. "Then please," he began, his voice hoarse and dripping with promise, "please allow me to show you how wrong you are.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“He might be an undead creature of the night - but as undead creatures of the night went, he was a marshmallow.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“But you know now - the only rule in art is to make something you enjoy.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“If this guy turns out to be the next Jeffrey Dahmer, promise me you’ll avenge my death?”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“Mr. Frederick .Fitzwilliam’s Google Search History:
- How do you kiss if it has been three hundred years since.
- How can you know if she wants to kiss you…”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“I’ve never met anyone who’s a hopeless case.” His eyes fluttered closed. “You have never met anyone like me, Miss Greenberg.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“I would like to hear more about your life, Cassie. I wish to know more about you. I wish… I wish to know everything.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“Roles I play in my life: Friend, enemy, "frenemy," vampire, amateur glockenspielist”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“Reggie let out a quiet moan. "You're so hot when you talk taxes,”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“I will never be able to deny you anything you want.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“I'd have said this lapse in glamour functionality would one day be my villain origin story if I didn't already have at least four of those”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“I decided to intervene. “I told you, Mom. We met at the office, and—” —at the exact same moment Reggie said, “I work at a carnival.”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“Frederick - a man who hated texting, and who by all accounts should have been asleep at that hour - replied immeadiately. Like, he’d been sitting there all this time, phone in hand, waiting for me to reach out.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“I ... was once known for my straightforward demeanor," he said his voice just above a whisper. "It was an admirable trait among men at the time. I gather that now, one must mince words often in order not to offend.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“This man was so outlandishly funny I never knew whether I wanted to hit him or to laugh. He was disarmingly kind, and so thoughtful it made my head spin. And I realised, with a sudden, all-encompassing jolt of awareness - he was mine.”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“I sit at my desk at 2 in the morning, desperately trying to remind myself that Miss Greenberg is a lady. A lady whose beauty far surpasses what I noticed when we first met. A lady with lovely curves, delightful freckles dusting the bridge of her nose, and a mouth that will now haunt my dreams--- but a lady nonetheless.
It would appear that I must also remind a certain traitorous part of my anatomy--- one that has not responded thusly to a woman in over one hundred years--- of this fact as well.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“And then, because it was the middle of the night and I was slightly delirious, that bizarro Comic Sans website from the vampire vigilante group popped into my mind. "I've got it. You're a vampire fugitive, aren't you."
"I..." He cleared his throat. A nervous laugh. "How did you know?"
I snorted. When he'd told me he was a fan of practical jokes, he hadn't been kidding. "Got it. You're a vampire fugitive." I flopped back down onto my pillow and threw an arm over my eyes. "Look. It's late, and I don't really care what your deal is. I just need to know you aren't going to hurt me. Can you promise me that?"
"I swear that I would never hurt you," he said, more earnestly than I'd ever heard him say anything.
"Excellent," I said. "Then we're good." Whatever the real thing was that he was too nervous to tell me, if it didn't implicate my physical safety, it didn't matter. The only requirements for this fake boyfriend role were having a pulse, not being a serial killer, and willingness to go along with my plans.
It sounded like he fit the bill.”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“This will be one of those good old-fashioned platonic fake dating arrangements”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“The truth is, I quite like making you happy." He shook his head. "I'm frightened to think too much about what that means because I honestly can't remember the last time I wanted to do anything for another person, simply for its own sake. And without having an ulterior motive." His eyes when they met mine, were so intense I had to look away. "But for you, I would brace a blizzard just to see you smile”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“How long had it been since a man had openly stared at me like this? Like I was someone he found desirable. Like I was something he wanted.”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“You'd be willing to try this even though the ending to our story would be the opposite of already written?"
I hesitated, but only for a moment. "I've never tried storytelling before. Might be fun to write our own ending, don't you think?”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“I simply do not understand this modern urge to share every errant thought one has with the entire world the instant it happens.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire