Adrianne Brooks > Quotes

“Commence mental back patting.”
― Adrianne Brooks, Kissed by Moonlight

“It was like being told that there was a Santa Clause and that he was every bit as awesome as you’d always thought he would be…but that he had terminal cancer and would be gone by the end of the month. My inner child just got raped by reality.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“If it looked like a duck, and quacked like a duck, then guess what?
It was probably a goddamned werewolf.”
― Adrianne Brooks, Kissed by Moonlight

“You know those people who go to work and they’re completely satisfied with their lives? The ones who feel a sense of personal satisfaction from walking through the doors in the morning because they know that they made the right decision? I’m not one of those people. The only thing that kept me functioning like a regular human being was a grim satisfaction that at least I didn’t work in customer service. The only thing I disliked more than tabloids were people. Somewhere along the line, I’d developed a deep, burning dislike for the human race. There seemed to be no cure.”
― Adrianne Brooks, Kissed by Moonlight

“He was built like a Spartan (the Gerard Butler kind, Nom).”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“You like Superman?”
I shrugged, “He lacks the boyish charm of Spiderman, but he’s alright.”
“I’m like Superman.”
I rolled my eyes. “This should be good. And who am I? Louis Lane?”
A solemn shake of his head, and then his hands were tangling in my hair. “You’re kryptonite.”
― Adrianne Brooks

“Somewhere along the line, I’d developed a deep, burning dislike for the human race. There seemed to be no cure.”
― Adrianne Brooks, Kissed by Moonlight

“I told them that I’d need a larger casket.”

I don’t want to know. “Why?”

“Because I plan on spending the majority of my afterlife turning over in my grave while Elizabeth Adler rubs the fact that she already has three grandkids and a handsome son-in-law in my face.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“An empty city was like an empty library or school, it made you feel as if the entire thing was built just for you and gave familiar landmarks an individualism that they usually lacked when surrounded by people.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“He made a low, unhappy, sound in the back of his throat as he followed, and I felt my own spirits lift at his darkening mood. Childish? Yes. But I found that I could live with the moniker.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“I don’t know anyone but television assassins and serial killers who’ve perfected the art of sounding deadly over the telephone as well as my mother has.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“What is this?”

“It’s a Harley.”

I looked at him from the corner of my eye before turning my silent censure back onto his bike.

“I was implying that you should take me to your big boy mode of transportation instead.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“Who the hell would consider being the female equivalent of Justin Bieber a curse? If you’re whining about the world being your stage and every male on it your thirteen-year-old fan girl, then my sympathy level just dropped exponentially.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“The main thing that I loved about living alone was the silence. Sometimes simply talking to people was like listening to white noise. Often I could tune the sound out and be all right, but other times it was like hearing nails on a chalkboard—almost painful.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“I'd never actually seen my mother sleep. As far as I knew, she simply shut herself in her room once night fell and lowered herself back into the pit from whence she came.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“I spent a wretched five minutes throwing up everything I’d ever eaten, ever thought about eating, or would eat in the future. I”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“But somewhere along the line I’d begun to feel responsible for everything that was happening.”
― Adrianne Brooks, To The Fairest

“there was no satisfaction to be had in dry heaving. I”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“Childish? Yes. But I found that I could live with the moniker.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“There are things that go bump in the night.” He said, eyes trained on Liam but words for all of them. Fear was a perfume in the air. “Things that lay in wait beneath beds.” He continued voice hypnotic and mocking. “They skulk in closets. Hide in shadows.” His licked his lips and his head lowered so that he could regard them from beneath his lashes. “Then, there’s me. I am no bogey little human, I am no nightmare. I am so much more than that. I am fear and I was named of Angels.”
― Adrianne Brooks

“while I personally had never used a salt shaker,”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“I laughed. “What the hell are you learning from Ebony?” “How to be a strong black woman?” I”
― Adrianne Brooks, To The Fairest

“Spend enough time here and this world would rot any of us.” “Are you saying that just being here is enough to turn you—?” “Evil? Most definitely.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“He was built like a Spartan (the Gerard Butler kind, nom). I liked that.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“Note to self: I take entirely too much pleasure in causing bodily harm to others.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“Some days you were the plague, and some days you were the Egyptian.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Frog Prince

“Everyone is trapped in his or her own fairytale and it’s up to them to make their own happy endings.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“My inner child just got raped by reality.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“he didn’t have on a stitch of clothing. I suppose shape-shifting into a dragon gets to be hell on a wardrobe. I”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I