Andrea K. Höst > Quotes

“I blame Doctor Who. Mr Spock. The Scooby Gang: both the ones in the Mystery Machine and the ones with the stakes. I've spent my life with stories of people who don't walk away, who go back for their friends, who make that last stand. I've been brainwashed by Samwise Gamgee.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Stray

“I walked into adventure and adventure has given me blisters.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Stray

“A metric fuckton of dumb so epically mind-destroyingly beyond a bad idea that there's not a chance they would go there.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Lab Rat One

“I knew if I started touching you I wouldn't be able to stop.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Lab Rat One

“We would never have met," he explained, voice dropping to a husky note. "I would have gone about my life and not thought I was missing anything. You would have – you would have painted obsessively, all those transformative images, and I would be someone unimagined and unknown, and I cannot decide whether it would be trite to call that a tragedy or if I should resent you for making this – all this death – somehow bearable, tolerable for the tenuous joy I have gained. You steal my anger and leave me dazed."

He stopped, took a shaking breath, then laughed.

"I sound like Pan's understudy, failing to channel Shakespeare. There's no way to do more than guess what would have happened if Fisher Charteris and Madeleine Cost met one day in a world which had never feared dust, any more than we can be certain of surviving two years, or two days. I can't speak to what-ifs, but I know I will always be glad to have been here in this moment with you.”
― Andrea K. Höst, And All the Stars

“[...] I'm going to have to be systematic about experimental eating so I know exactly what fatally poisons me.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Stray

“I'm out of tissues for toilet paper too. History notes just aren't....up to scratch”
― Andrea K. Höst, Stray

“To be angry at the gods is to scream at the stars. Even if they hear, they will not stop shining.”
― Andrea K. Höst, The Pyramids of London

“Can you truly tell me, you with your heart leaping over itself in fright, that you can be my lover? My friend and helpmeet, my comfort and passion? Because I would not accept less.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Voice of the Lost

“Such an Ibisian scene: both their faces were formal masks, their posture correct, pain kept inside where it cut deeper.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Voice of the Lost

“Never underestimate any person's capacity to ignore the convenience of others.”
― Andrea K. Höst, The Pyramids of London

“What are they – is that a bazooka?”
― Andrea K. Höst, And All the Stars

“...sitting at the single table in a disreputable pile of lumber mistakenly called a building.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Hunting

“That should cool matters down considerably," Aunt Arianne said, not sounding as if she'd been recently attacked by anything more than mild curiosity.”
― Andrea K. Höst, The Pyramids of London

“And two more tiresome examples of blameless lives lived well I have rarely had the misfortune to examine.”
― Andrea K. Höst, The Pyramids of London

“She had flown above London, then been asked if she was whole.
Wouldn't you know it, if you were broken inside?”
― Andrea K. Höst, The Pyramids of London

“She didn't know if she was crying because Illukar was going to die, or because Ieskar already had.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Voice of the Lost

“She fished in a pocket of her dress and tossed a labelled key to Griff. "Think of it as a treasure hunt, with that our only clue. The reward for success is not having a vampire for an aunt.”
― Andrea K. Höst, The Pyramids of London

“But hindsight was no benefit to the ill-prepared.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Medair

“Eluned had to work very hard not to stare impolitely, for Princess Celestine was reputedly the daughter of a dragon, and thus naturally the most interesting person who could possibly interrupt afternoon tea.”
― Andrea K. Höst, The Pyramids of London

“Indeed the one thing the day lacked was a doom-laden prophecy. Perhaps you'd care to come in?”
― Andrea K. Höst, The Pyramids of London

“I'm an above average student, but I'm not brilliant at anything.  Partly because I'd rather read than study.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Stray

“A cause is a cold thing to die for. To die to protect the people you count as friends, people you have laughed with, and grown to cherish, that is a gift.”
― Andrea K. Höst, And All the Stars

“there's three bad things about dying: pain and other unpleasantries, the way your friends and relatives feel after, and the fact that you don't get to find out what happens next.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Stray

“Our first assigment was at a place the old maps called Telezon. A rare town not planted on a lake, it was surrounded by golden grassy plains crossed by a winding, twisting river in the centre of the largest land-mass.
The grass had recently set seed in plumes of purple and white which scattered like dandelions puffs whenever the wind took a punch. And all of it was completely seething with small birds and massive dragonflies, as we discovered when we set down for the first time and ten million grass-gold birds took off in a storm of wings to give a Midas touch to the sky.”
― Andrea K. Höst

“The way I think, the way I act, most of that's because of the books I've read. ”
― Andrea K. Höst, Caszandra

“Laura wryly reflected on the usefulness of psychics when baby-wrangling.”
― Andrea K. Höst, In Arcadia

“I'm the kind of person who watches TV while checking FaceBook, and reads whether I'm having breakfast, or on the bus, or in the loo.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Stray

“Did Tom Hanks talk to the volleyball because he'd gone mad, or to stop himself going mad?”
― Andrea K. Höst, Stray

“How do you tell what's poisonous?  Now that would have been a useful thing to learn at school.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Stray