Alys Arden > Quotes

“As an artist, if your work doesn't inflame at least part of the audience, then you might as well call it quits and sell insurance... The world needs more boundary pushers, not more boundary creators.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“You don't control their minds, ma fifille, you control their hearts" - Cosette”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“Time after time, I have seen secrets tear people apart.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“Every species has their monsters.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“And when all was done and all was said, we sat silently staring at the moon's reflection on the rippling river, soaking it all in. The differences between people, cultures and times.
The monsters. The myths.
The heroes.
The victims.
The love and loss.
Loss and love.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“Am I really going to die tonight? As a sixteen-year-old virgin with only one passport stamp and no driver's license?”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“It's a place where strange things have been known to happen, but locals learn not to think twice about every little unexplainable detail; otherwise they'd go mad.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“...Moving pictures and flying machines nth seemed like magic at one time. It's not a huge leap to believe that what seems irrational or magical now ill be commonplace in the future. I believe everyone has magical powers. However, only certain people - the ones who are open to it - can tap into the true capacity of the mind and push the current brink of human thought. Some are called geniuses, some are called prophets, others are called witches.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“In the words of the great Monsieur Baudelaire, 'The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he doesn't exist.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“I pulled out a large white T-shirt with black gothic script that read, "Equipe Edward"
"Adele, how many times do I have to tell you?" he said in a very serious tone. "Vampires do not sparkle."
"Okay, fine." I pretended to pout. "I'll give it to someone else."
"No, you will not!" He yanked the T-shirt out of my reach. "Sparkles or not, I am still Team Edward.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“Too bad Hallmark doesn’t make a card that says, Sorry, your wife is undead.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“A sharp pain tugged in my chest. I wanted this all to go away. I wanted Nicco to be normal. I wanted to be normal. A part of me wanted to destroy him for everything he'd done, whatever his role...For following me. For not telling me everything. For letting me fall for him. I hated myself for wanting to cause harm to someone else. I wanted him to be stronger, to change, to want the same things as me. I wanted him.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“It is not gossip that you must worry about, only the days when you are not worth gossiping about.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“No tourists, no screaming drag queens, no horse hooves clacking down the street. The perfect still of the night - this was something I would never get used to. Not in New Orleans. The quietness freaked me out.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“There you go, changing the subject. That means you are sweet on one of them. Which one is it? I'm going to guess the Yankee. You two bicker too much to actually dislike each other."
"Ren!"
"So, its the foreign fox?"
"Stop! I'm serious. It's important!”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“You’re like Super Mario!” “You really know how to make a girl feel special.” “You’re like Super Mario, but a hot girl.” He blushed a little when he realized the compliment had slipped out.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“What does one wear on the first day of work at a psychic tearoom?”
― Alys Arden, The Romeo Catchers

“I’m not going to let the boat tip, Adele.” When he touched my face, I shuddered. “You can feel whatever you need to feel for as long as you need to, and you don’t have to worry—I won’t let the boat tip.”
― Alys Arden, The Cities of Dead

“I still felt like I was out on the little boat in the obsidian sea, under the obsidian sky, lost. But when I looked out into the darkness, now there was something different. Now there were stars.”
― Alys Arden, The Cities of Dead

“I love how quickly you've both warmed up to petty crime as a solution to our magical dilemma.”
― Alys Arden, The Romeo Catchers

“New Orleans was a place you wanted to be born from and die in.”
― Alys Arden, The Cities of Dead

“You’re like Super Mario!”“You really know how to make a girl feel special.”“You’re like Super Mario, but a hot girl.” He blushed, realizing the compliment had slipped out.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“Come on, Désirée, it’s rude. I don’t want to distract Ren.” “Oh, please, that statue of Jesus could start twerkin’ and Ren wouldn’t break character.”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“There had always been a safety in our flirtation because it was like a dead-end road with an impenetrable steel wall. But now something felt different. Was it possible for steel to chink?”
― Alys Arden, The Cities of Dead

“Armstrong and Billie”
― Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls

“The ache for some other life, where I walked into the room and wrapped my arms around her waist, and kissed her neck without being enraptured by the scent of her blood, became so overwhelming it bruised my insides.”
― Alys Arden, The Cities of Dead

“The small chests, or cassettes, given to the women to hold their wedding dresses looked very similar to caskets and earned them each the title la fills à la cassette, or simply, the casquette girls, as the locals say.”
― Alys Arden