Allison van Diepen > Quotes

“I must do whatever I can to find the best partners possible."
"Did you kick their butts?"
He frowned. "The buttocks are among the least sensitive places to hit someone."
I laughed. "It's a figure of speech."
"To kick butts. Interesting.”
― Allison van Diepen, The Vampire Stalker

“Ex-girlfriends are like car wrecks. You shouldn't want to know the details, but you do.”
― Allison van Diepen, Raven

“Nothing ever goes back to normal. All that happens is your concept of normal changes.”
― Allison van Diepen, Raven

“How sad that I felt more of a connection to a fictional character than to a guy in real life.”
― Allison Van Diepen, The Vampire Stalker

“I don't get it. Why are many people drawn to someone who's hurt them? Maybe it's an ego thing- being hurt sucks, and you think you can erase that hurt by going back to the person who caused it. Then it will be like it never happened in the first place. Only problem is that it did happen.”
― Allison van Diepen, The Oracle of Dating

“You shouldn't have told them you were my fiance."
"I thought if I were your fiance, they would let me see you immediately."
"It just made you sound weird. Nobody my age gets married.”
― Allison van Diepen, The Vampire Stalker

“Wait a minute— who is Mrs. Alexander Banks eight thousand and twenty-one?"
Uh-oh. He'd spotted the small icon at the top with my log-in name. I felt my face heat up. "It's just, uh, a name. Everyone has to log in under a made-up name."
He turned to me, narrowing his eyes. "Is this your made-up name?”
― Allison van Diepen, The Vampire Stalker

“being bitten by a vampire is not sexy”
― Allison van Diepen, The Vampire Stalker

“I tried to avoid it coming to that, but it was bound to happen...My attraction to you has tested my self-control and my concentration.”
― Allison van Diepen, The Vampire Stalker

“Why don't you try it? It might be easier to run in these than your boots."

"This shoe clearly is not my size, and there is no time to have more made."

I tried not to laugh. "They have some in the back room that are your size.”
― Allison van Diepen, The Vampire Stalker

“I'd been writing for as long as I could remember, but once I read Otherworld, I'd stopped writing original stories to focus on fan fiction. It was such a rich, exciting world that I couldn't think of writing anything else.”
― Allison van Diepen, The Vampire Stalker

“Death is inevitable passion is eternal”
― Allison van Diepen, Raven

“Everything I did made me better -- tougher, stronger, richer, smarter -- or I didn't do it.”
― Allison van Diepen, Street Pharm

“Attraction, apparently, is often accompanied by delusion.”
― Allison van Diepen, The Oracle of Dating

“We're all works in progress, Diaz. We're all broken and bleeding and trying to fix ourselves up into something human.”
― Allison van Diepen, On the Edge

“I wasn’t sure I wanted a love interest for Alexander. The thought of being jealous of a character in a book was silly, but I couldn’t help it. Alexander Banks was the closest to perfection
that any guy could ever be.”
― Allison van Diepen, The Vampire Stalker

“Maybe I was just being paranoid. But that's the thing about the game. If you weren't paranoid, you were dead already.”
― Allison van Diepen, Takedown

“Wild out”
― Allison van Diepen

“Yeah. I've met so many people, and they don't really know me. I can't tell them who I am, or what I've lived. Even if I could, I probably wouldn't want to. It's not often I've met a person I really want to know better. But I knew I wanted to know you the moment I set eyes on you.”
― allison van diepen, Raven

“You have no reason to be scared. I would protect you with my soul." He cups my face. His hands are warm despite the cold. "You remind me of how precious life is.”
― Allison van Diepen, Raven

“Who knew a crush could actually be painful? Maybe that's why it was called a crush.”
― Allison van Diepen, Light of Day

“Hope is dangerous.”
― Allison van Diepen, Light of Day

“In the darkness of my bedroom, I knew that it wasn't just answers I wanted.

It was him.”
― Allison van Diepen, On the Edge

“L kick”
― Allison van Diepen

“The gang leader was a gentleman.
Which made me want him even more.”
― Allison van Diepen, Light of Day

“ex-girlfriends are like car wrecks. You shouldn't want to know the details but you just do”
― Allison van Diepen

“- Attends, je veux être sûre de bien comprendre : tu me demandes de te demander de sortir avec moi, c’est bien ça ?
- Exactement. Alors, c’est d’accord ?
- C’est d’accord.
Je tousse pour m’éclaircir la voix.
- Ça te dirait de sortir avec moi, samedi soir ?
- J’ai cru que tu ne me le demanderais jamais !”
― Allison van Diepen, The Oracle of Dating

“It was you who built the foundation for enabling lying snitches to do their dirty work. That's why.”
― Allison van Diepen

“The truth is, killing vampires is the only thing that makes me feel anything close to joy. Grotesque, isn’t it?” It was grotesque, but it was also understandable.”
― Allison van Diepen, The Vampire Stalker

“Literary physics. It sounded crazy,”
― Allison van Diepen, The Vampire Stalker