Laura Greenwood > Quotes

“Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people, William,”
― Laura Greenwood, Fangs For Nothing

“Here's what all the stories forget to mention; life goes on around the cursed.”
― Laura Greenwood, Awakening

“I can’t talk, I’m busy making you tea,” I grumbled. I flicked the kettle on, hoping the noise would drown him out.
William stared at me for a second, blinking slowly. “Are you passively-aggressively making me tea?”
“Correct.”
― Laura Greenwood, Fangs For All

“Perfect. Do you have a jacket?" Relaxing slightly, I let out a laugh. "Clearly you've never dated a Northern girl before. We don't need jackets.”
― Laura Greenwood, First Time's a Charm

“Popularity is just a good way of saying a lot of people like you a little. Not that real people like you a lot.”
― Laura Greenwood, First Time's a Charm

“Patiently, I let the rotary dial of my old-fashioned spin to combine the phone number that my “fiancé” had had for the last century.”
― Laura Greenwood, Fangs For Nothing

“The dial tone sounded, freeing me from his questions for at least another week or so. It was difficult to tell when he’d call. After the first year, I’d worked out his pattern and stopped answering. A year later, he’d figured out that’s what I was doing and varied his calls.”
― Laura Greenwood, Fangs For Nothing

“Close your mouth, Ashryn, or someone will fill it.” I snap my jaw shut, tempted to ask if he’d do the honours,”
― Laura Greenwood, Tarnished Illusions

“It was amazing what some vampires would believe anything if you promised them what they wanted.”
― Laura Greenwood, Fangs For Nothing

“I hoped that was because someone more honest with him than I could bring myself to be told him they were rubbish.”
― Laura Greenwood, Fangs For Nothing

“I’m not at a place where I can start any kind of romantic attachment to any of them. No matter what level that may be at. Except Bram. His attractive kind of angry just makes me want to have lots of hate sex with him until it all fades away.”
― Laura Greenwood, Shattered Illusions

“In unison, the two men downed their scalding cup of tea without ever breaking eye contact with each other. If I didn't know any better, I'd say they were into each other. But of course, that was not what this was. As soon as they emptied their cup, the pair gasped for air to soothe their burning tongues. "Sorry, I dropped something," Derek lied, purely as an excuse to dive under his chair and fan his mouth with his hands. William used his embroidered handkerchief to waft fresh air on his face, looking equally as red as the other man. Bloody British vampires.”
― Laura Greenwood, Fangs For Nothing

“Now I'm at Grimm Academy, I'm going to become the person I know I can be. The one who isn't trapped under Mother's thumb any longer.”
― Laura Greenwood, Tower of Thorns

“He's supposed to be the hottest guy you've ever seen..."
"And that's all we know about him?"
The amusement in my tone betrays my true feelings. If we don't like being objectified by men, then we shouldn't be doing the same to them.”
― Laura Greenwood, First Time's a Charm

“Am I supposed to be scared of him? I don't think he understands how bad working in retail is. He and his quivering moustache are far from the scariest things I've seen in this shop.”
― Laura Greenwood, Hexes and Vexes

“Manticores are kind of cool?" I suggest,”
― Laura Greenwood, First Time's a Charm

“I frown and turn in the direction he tells me to find Ivy sauntering towards us with her hands on her hips and a skirt that's far too short to be called that. Oh wow, I'm turning into a middle-aged woman. Next thing I know, I'll be referring to it as a belt and telling her she'll get frostbite.”
― Laura Greenwood, First Time's a Charm

“I find words are wasted on people who don't appreciate the truth.”
― Laura Greenwood, Tower of Thorns

“Maybe I just want you for your kitten.”
― Laura Greenwood, First Time's a Charm

“No living dangerously for you? I'd have thought you thrived on that given you're here.”
”That's where you misjudge me,” I countered. “Danger for danger's sake isn't something I'm partial to.”
― Laura Greenwood, Rats: Tori

“Just because something isn’t perfect looking on the outside, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have any value. Or that it isn’t valuable. Sometimes, the broken things are worth the most.”
― Laura Greenwood, Shattered Illusions

“In love. With you, in case that wasn't clear," he teases.”
― Laura Greenwood, Tower of Thorns

“Vampires are made, not born.”
― Laura Greenwood, The Ashryn Barker Trilogy

“I wasn't naive enough to believe in love at first sight, but having woken me from my sleep there was a bond with Philip, a bond that made me feel safe, secure and more than anything left me wanting to have fallen in love at first sight.”
― Laura Greenwood, Awakening

“No one wanted to be responsible for telling the young and innocent Princess about the things a man and a woman could do together. No one wanted to take away my innocence. Well I was now 112 years old, I figured I was old enough to learn.”
― Laura Greenwood, Awakening

“I sniff the splinter and nod. “Pinus.” The detective eyes’ widen. “Did you just call me a penis?” “No. Pinus. This piece of wood came from a pine tree.”
― Laura Greenwood, Hexes and Vexes

“Besides, it doesn't matter what she thinks. I'm going to be my own person whether she likes it or not. I hate how weak I feel when she's around, but there's only one person who can make me strong. And that starts now.”
― Laura Greenwood, Tower of Thorns

“I didn't mind the fact I was a virgin still, but I knew some girls saw it as a badge of shame. It was ridiculous how society acted. You were a prude if you hadn't had sex and a slut if you had. There needed to be a middle ground where people who actually liked sex could spend their time doing it as much as they wanted.”
― Laura Greenwood, The Platypus and Her Wolves

“Our attention is drawn away from our conversation by shouts from the football team.
"You'd think we'd have invented a magical sport better than that," I observe.
"Just because you want to play Quidditch."
"I never said I wanted to play, just that it would be a good sport to watch if it wasn't fictional."
All the good sports were just that, the figment of someone else's imagination.”
― Laura Greenwood, First Time's a Charm

“observations.”
― Laura Greenwood, Grimm Academy Volume 2