Faith Hunter > Quotes

“I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.”
― Faith Hunter, Skinwalker

“Really sucked the red off of all my candy.”
― Faith Hunter, Mercy Blade

“You gonna put on your big-girl panties and fight with the boys, now?” He looked over his shoulder as if he expected me to blush or something.
“Who says I wear panties?”
I was certain that he flushed red this time. Laughing, I left him shaking his head and went on inside to find the Kid. We had work to do.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“Hey, uh, you know. Um. If you’re alive, uh, call me." I looked at the screen and said, "It's Jane." I closed the phone, thinking, Lame. I am so lame.”
― Faith Hunter, Death's Rival

“Walk softly and carry a big stick. Or stomp loudly and carry enough firepower to start a small war. Whatever worked”
― Faith Hunter, Death's Rival

“For a reason or a season,' he said. 'For a year or a lifetime. For a poem or a song. For a victorious battle or a bloody death. For honor. I would stand by you for as long as I might live.”
― Faith Hunter, Broken Soul

“Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems.”
― Faith Hunter, Raven Cursed

“Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.”
― Faith Hunter, Skinwalker

“My brother has absolutely no sense of self-preservation or survival instinct,” Eli said. “He has no idea we’re out here. We could be silver-eating, flesh-regenerating, vampire zombies, and when we busted through the door to eat his brilliant brain, he’d look up and say, ‘Huh?”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“Men who had the capacity to apologize—and who knew the right words with which to do it—were few and far between.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Cross

“Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.”
― Faith Hunter, Mercy Blade

“It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.”
― Faith Hunter, Skinwalker

“Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.”
― Faith Hunter, Raven Cursed

“Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!”
― Faith Hunter, Skinwalker

“According to Francis, Narkis and Zoltar have been plotting against their dad.”
“He did name his boys Narkis and Zoltar.”
“Good point. I’d have shot him too.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“Baptized in a river when I was a teenager. I go to church most Sundays. My favorite Bible verse is ‘Jesus wept.’”
“Because it’s the shortest?” He almost smiled.
“No. Because it says that Jesus knew what it meant to grieve. He’d just let his best friend in the world die of illness when he could have gotten there in time to save him. I’m thinking he was between a rock and hard place, and the hard place let his friend die. He grieved. Then, when he could, he went and raised his friend from the grave, and he knew that if he did that, he’d die himself.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“People of all faiths are responsible to help the weak, the downtrodden, the sick, and the helpless, especially children. And of all the religions in the world, Christians are the only ones that are commanded not to judge, yet we do every day -- gay people, ethnicities different from our own, people in mixed relationships, people with gifts they were born with, power they were born with, genetic mutations they were born with, illnesses of the brain and body. I've got a little girl's mother to save, and, yes, she's a witch. Are you gonna make it possible for me to save her?”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“I could be patient. I could. If they’d hurry up.”
― Faith Hunter, Dark Heir

“Humans wore skin and clothes— many clothes instead of fur. Would have been smarter to grow fur, but humans were never smart.”
― Faith Hunter, Death's Rival

“Sometimes when the poop hits the fan we should block it and run, sometimes we should haul off and knock it for a loop back at the spinning blades. Wisdom is knowing two things. One is which time is which. The other is that no matter what you do you're gonna get crap on your hand.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade

“You let the cops in. Thy've brought in a ram to take down the front door. A white chick in an evening gown will settle the cops faster than a brother with guns.”
― Faith Hunter, Mercy Blade

“The aroma of tea mixed with the scent of old books, leather chairs, and wool from the carpet in a soothing fusion.”
― Faith Hunter, Dark Heir

“like something Disney might have envisioned if he’d taken a dose of LSD, backed up with a serving of psilocybin mushrooms, and a quart of tequila.”
― Faith Hunter, Broken Soul

“New beginnings often started with the broken bits and shattered pieces of the old.”
― Faith Hunter, Broken Soul

“They go in a vase. On the nighstand by your bed. Or on the kitchen table. Or on the coffee table in the living room. They go where you can see them most often, and, seeing them, remember that you deserve flowers.”
― Faith Hunter, Broken Soul

“Yet understanding one’s own nature is often a first step to personal growth. All this psychological crap was making me irritable.”
― Faith Hunter, Death's Rival

“Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord,’” I whispered, the words familiar from Scripture. “But not this time, God. You had your chance.”
― faith hunter, Mercy Blade

“But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.”
― Faith Hunter, Death's Rival

“Since no one said anything, I decided to make offense my best . . . offense. "You didn't call me up here to kill me, did you? Or to pay me back for staking you? Because the last time I saw you upright, you were . . . rude.”
― Faith Hunter, Broken Soul

“I would give,” he said, his voice rough, “everything I am to keep you from being hurt.”
― Faith Hunter, Blood Trade