Victoria Danann > Quotes

“Great Paddy Shits in the Mornin', Elora! He's a vampire! No' a stray dog!”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“Elora: "If you bite me, I'll stake you."
Baka: "If I bite you, I'll stake myself.”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“Storm gave the gun to Elora so that she could practice the reload. He moved behind her to make sure her form was correct. The first two shots missed altogether. One hit a target in the crotch-two targets away from where she was aiming. By the fourth round she was managing to hit her target...in the crotch.
Ram said, "I'm beginnin' to sense a very disturbin' pattern here.”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“Sir Storm, I have decided that you are a god of poetic justice."
Baka to Storm”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“Why do you not believe you’re the father?” “Because elves and humans can no’ procreate.” As an afterthought, in the interest of clarity, he added, “With each other. It’s a biological fact not up to interpretation. The chromosomes do no’ line up.” Monq barked out a laugh that clearly offended Ram. “And what could you be findin’ amusin’ about this… situation?” “She’s an elf, you idiot! Her DNA is 99.9% the same as yours. The .01% difference is that her ears are not pointed.” While Ram stood there with his mouth open, trying to absorb that astonishing news, Elora turned to Monq with a hint of menace. “And you didn’t think this was information you should pass along?” “First, is it my job to keep up on gossip and know that the two of you are an item? No. Second, aren’t elves supposed to recognize each other as mates? That didn’t happen in your case?” Slowly a grin spread over his face. “Aye. ‘Tis exactly what did happen. Great Paddy! We’re havin’ a baby. I need to call my mother.”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“What is it that you want with me, Baka?”
He looked at her in a predatory way that, she sensed, had nothing to do with blood. “The same thing any man who isn’t blind would want from you.” Elora arched a right eyebrow and took another sip of golden liquid as she waited for him to spell it out. “Your phone number.”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“He was breathing heavy, but speaking assurances, words of encouragement delivered in short sentences. "Hang in there now. It'll be okay. We're almost there. Almost there.”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“def leppard lyric from Rock of Ages: It's better to burn out than fade away. This is not a Curt Cobain quote. He was quoting them !!!!!”
― Victoria Danann

“What is this?" she asked, running her hand over the jacket.
"Sheepskin."
She looked at him with genuine amusement.
"So when you wear this, you're literally a wolf in sheep's clothing?”
― Victoria Danann, Moonlight

“Love me or hate me, both are in my favor... If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.”
― Victoria Danann, Knights of Black Swan Books 1-3

“Aye. 'Tis a free country."
Monq had come to check on Elora just as she asked that question.
"Well, that kind of has to be qualified," he interjected.
"You can't come or go without a passport. You can't drive without a driver's license, registration, auto insurance and proof that your vehicle is up to code. You can't work or even get health care without a social security number. You have to pay taxes on everything including air and water. The closest distance between point A and B may involve paying a road toll. There are over three hundred thousand federal laws. You have to educate your children according to legal standards set by someone that's not you. There are laws about who can marry whom. But other than a few more such trivialities, it's a free country.”
― Victoria Danann, Vampire Hunter

“As a species-old rite of passage she learned that flattering words, looks of longing, and inadvertent touches are often no more than skillfully applied means to an end.”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“Three sentences were highlighted: I’ve been a so-called coward and a so-called hero and there’s not the thickness of a sheet of paper between them. Maybe cowards and heroes are just ordinary men who, for a split second, do something out of the ordinary. That’s all.”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“William Shakespeare said, "Love me or hate me, both are in my favor... If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.”
― Victoria Danann, A Summoner's Tale

“He told himself to remember that there's always a right and a wrong. It's easy to figure out which is which. The right thing is always the harder thing. Always.”
― Victoria Danann, The Witch's Dream

“did he have it? That mystic quality that science couldn't define or categorize. Women called it intuition. Men called it gut instinct. Naming it was irrelevant. Having it was crucial.”
― Victoria Danann, Moonlight

“She made a sound of frustration that no one else could hear. She’d heard that restraining expression of high emotion creates terminal illness in some people and mental illness in the rest.”
― Victoria Danann, The Knight

“I once heard the poet laureate say that the reason why we value real flowers is because we know they're dying.”
― Victoria Danann, A Summoner's Tale

“Mysteries, dog walking, and fae girls? I'm in!”
― Victoria Danann, The Witch's Dream

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” the Mad Hatter, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“The onlookers stopped what they were doing to see if he was incapacitated. After a couple of seconds, he rolled over giggling, propped himself up on his elbows, and sang, "Now. Waiiiiiiit a minute.”
― Victoria Danann, Moonlight

“He’s the sex version of fast food drive-through. It looks so good. It smells so good. It tastes so good. And you can get it quick. But, afterward you feel yucky and are sorry you did it.”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“Elora Laiken stood staring at it, feeling numb in body, mind, and spirit. She tried to focus on what Monq was saying as he scurried around the lab, waist long, white hair swaying in time with his agitated movements. “I’m sending you off world.”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“Manhattan is at her best at Yuletide the way a pretty woman is even prettier with make up”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“Admit it. You are fascinated by my penis." She raised her eyes to his. "It's magic. I've learned that I can make it grow just by staring at it.”
― Victoria Danann, Moonlight

“according to the principle that minds with little education form a narrow palette of capability which is far too easily manipulated. Their view, that mental strength requires a perpetual diet of new material to digest,”
― Victoria Danann, The Witch's Dream

“Elora decided she was a fan of 501’s; something about the pucker between each button of button fly jeans drew the eye like a codpiece.”
― Victoria Danann, My Familiar Stranger

“The way the wind whipped her cloak and hair around her painted a portrait of an exquisite creature, something other - more - than human.”
― Victoria Danann, Jax

“The male vampire had seizures and threw themselves around their cells for a few minutes before dying of cardiac arrest. But Genevieve, well, I guess you’d say”
― Victoria Danann, Falcon

“There are thousands, maybe millions of little choices in a life that are made by free will because they don’t impact the big things. But the big things are going to happen no matter what.”
― Victoria Danann, The Demon Deliverance