Christopher Golden > Quotes

“I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sons of Entropy

“What is it with you and the Wizard of Oz references? Zombies and werewolves and vamps, oh my. Zombies and werewolves and...”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Halloween Rain

“The ugliest parts of history are the most important parts to remember.”
― Christopher Golden, Road of Bones

“We're all leaving now", Blue Eyes whispered to her. "Together. Out the front door. Scream, and we'll kill you here and now.
"Or later", Willow suggested nervously. "Later would be a big improvement on that idea. We could meet back here in, say, an hour, and you can exhibit your homicidal tendencies then, okay? That would be way better for us.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 2

“Xander Harris: Hair. Red. Red is good. Fire engines are red. Porsche's are red.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 2

“Yo, zombie guys, pay attention. When it's Simon says, that means you have to do what I say. Let's be more direct. The Slayer says die, like, forever.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 2

“She was the Slayer. Normal teen angst didn't stack up to fangs at your throat.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Halloween Rain

“...she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Halloween Rain

“Sometimes Drusilla forgot she was really there, a tangible creature and not some ghost of a memory, drifting about the world, only observing.”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike and Dru - Pretty Maids All in a Row

“And that noise! It was enough to make that happy mailman on Mr. Rogers go postal!”
― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Halloween Rain; Bad Bargain; Afterimage v. 2

“Is your faith such a fragile thing that it can be so easily shattered?”
― Christopher Golden, Dragon Secrets

“There were things violence could solve—you couldn't be a soldier and not believe that—but this wasn't one of them.”
― Christopher Golden, Tin Men

“He had learned that sometimes there was no safe path, no decision from which one could emerge unscathed. In those cases, he had been taught to take the path of honor, even if it led to pain or death”
― Christopher Golden, Alien: River of Pain

“He whispered, breaking the silence because he could no longer bear it, daring to make a noise because a whisper was better than a scream”
― Christopher Golden, Dragon Secrets

“Nothing in these woods could be more dreadful, more terrifying, than the selfish cruelty of ordinary people.”
― Christopher Golden, All Hallows

“Only tragedies arrived with such urgency in the small hours before dawn.”
― Christopher Golden, Road of Bones

“Good!” Ripley said, standing again. She was tall, imposing, and she liked the way a couple of the guys winced a little when she shouted. “That’s because I blew it out of the airlock.”
― Christopher Golden, Alien: River of Pain

“Whatever solace TJ Farrelly sought, he would have to find it on his own. She had racked her brain until she had realized the truth: she had none to give.”
― Christopher Golden, Snowblind

“Millions of people around the world learned to speak English as a second or third language, or sixth, and fluently. He’d always thought they envied his country, maybe wanted to live there, but now he wondered if they just liked English-language movies and TV shows. And maybe, just maybe, they learned English because most English speakers were too lazy or arrogant to become proficient in other languages.”
― Christopher Golden, Road of Bones

“why would you think such a dangerous endeavor would be fun?”
― Christopher Golden, Dragon Secrets

“There is a special place in hell for people who bring children into this world solely for the sake of seeming better than they are.”
― Christopher Golden, Hark! the Herald Angels Scream

“the real world.”
― Christopher Golden, Sons of Anarchy: Bratva

“I have a life, goddamit. One life. I've seen too many people give theirs up, to drugs or suicide or even depression... fuck, even just lazinesss. I've seen lives wasted.
I'll be damned if I'm going to waste mine.”
― Christopher Golden, Of Masques and Martyrs

“What about her?" asked the one Xander had burned with holy water.
"Leave her," said another. "She isn't as important as the others. And if we took her and didn't kill her ... I think she might annoy me to death",
Too frightened to be insulted, Cordelia watched them move away.
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― Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sins of the Father

“The dead bolt made a heavy, satisfying thunk as he turned the lock, and Jake found that he liked that sound. He liked it very much.”
― Christopher Golden, Snowblind

“But something about Baxter made people uneasy and therefore compliant. It had always been that way, but never more so than now. With his prison tats and those cold eyes, Baxter was the alpha dog in pretty much any room he entered.”
― Christopher Golden, Snowblind

“Whatever people give you, give it back to them times ten. Be ready, always, to take everything to the next level. Someone's nice to you, make it your job to improve their day, give them a laugh or a pat on the back. But someone comes at you with attitude, or looking for a fight, you drop the fuckin' sky on their heads. Be ready either way, every day.”
― Christopher Golden, Road of Bones

“Dammit, that’s not all!” Ripley shouted. She couldn’t get through to them. Could they not see? Could they not understand? “’ Cause if one of those things gets down here, that will be all, and this…” She grabbed the papers, copies of her deposition, evidence sheets. “This bullshit that you think is so important… you can kiss all that goodbye!”
― Christopher Golden, Alien: River of Pain

“Not for reasons unknown!” Ripley said, again. One more time, she thought. The more she told her story, the less they seemed to believe it, and the more terrible it became to her. “I told you, we set down there on company orders to get this thing which destroyed my crew. And your expensive ship.”
― Christopher Golden, Alien: River of Pain

“There were certain keys to being a good friend, chief among them loyalty, shared philosophy, and willing sacrifice, but Teig had learned that the most appreciated trait in a friend was knowing when to speak up and when to keep silent.”
― Christopher Golden, Road of Bones