Sarah Beth Durst > Quotes

“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.”
― Sarah Beth Durst

“To you,” he said, “I surrender my heart and soul.”
She rolled her eyes. “Very romantic, considering you have neither.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love

“You’re a teenage boy. I have boobs. What part of the equation is missing?”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love

“It wasn’t that she didn’t like people. It was only that she liked books more.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Tara. I'm a vampire," Pearl said.
"Yeah, whatever, and I'm queen of the sea."
"Your Marine Majesty, I'm a vampire," Pearl said.
Concentrating, she slid her fangs out. "Tara. Tara!" She curled back her lips to expose the points. "See"
Tara screamed.
"I won't hurt you," Pearl said. Calm down. Sheesh."
Tara continued to scream.
Pearl considered biting her merely to shut her up. Regrettably that would be counter productive. Studying her nails, she waited for Tara to quit screaming. She noticed that Tara didn't try to exit the car, which was an interesting choice.
"You aren't running away," Pearl said.
"Duh, it's raining outside," Tara said.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love

“Do you believe in vampires? Not the sparkly variety.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love

“I hope I haven't hurt your feelings,' he said.
'I don't have feelings, at least not the inconvenient ones.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love

“It wasn't that she didn't like people. It was that she liked books more. They didn't fuss or judge or mock or reject.They invited you in, fluffed up the pillows on the couch, offered you tea and toast, and shared their hearts with no expectation that you'd do anything more than absorb what they had to give.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“You’ll never make it through life if you let irrational fears freeze you all the time.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love

“Books should be shared with everyone who wants to open their minds and hearts to them.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Of course knowledge is dangerous. But ignorance is even more dangerous”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“We can only control what we do and hope that other people make the right choice.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Imagine that it's sugar," Korbyn said. 'You're riding across candy.'

"Salt can never be sugar," Fennik said.

"We should talk about the definition of the word 'imagine'.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Vessel

“There's no such thing as a weed," Cas said. "That's a cruel term made up by people who label some plants as 'unwanted' and some as 'valuable,' as if the worth of a living thing is measured by how useful it is to another living thing. As if a plant can't gave its own intrinsic worth.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love

“I do not want leaving me to be easy.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Ice

“You know, plants aren't nearly as emotionally exhausting as humans. You should try to be more plant”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“That's brilliant."
"I thought so. But I'm glad you agree. It will make this journey much more pleasant if you are impressed with my brilliance.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Vessel

“Whether he loved her or not didn't change how she felt about him. She loved him independent and regardless of whether he loved her.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Ice

“Impressive vocabulary," Korbyn said. "I feel as though I should take notes."
"I think she's making them up," Liyana said. "Half of them are not anatomically possible.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Vessel

“I want to know you better."
"No, you don't. I'm not friendly. I like to be alone."
"You can be alone with me.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Look you don't know I'm your soul mate," Lily said. " You barely know me at all. I have terrible habits. I swallow toothpaste. My socks don't always match. I'm not good at small talk. I'm just about the most unpopular kid in class, a close third behind the guy who doesn't shower and the girl who's a compulsive liar. Besides, it's not like Jake and me... He was just being nice."
"You are my soul mate, even if you don't know it yet," Tye said”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Enchanted Ivy

“You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire."
"And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Vessel

“If you’re hurt, you’re hurt. It doesn’t matter if anyone else thinks you don’t have a good enough reason. Pain doesn’t require approval.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Enchanted Greenhouse

“Whether you made your choices with your eyes open or closed, they’re made. It’s not time to regret them; it’s time to live with the consequences.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“Do you know how to drive?" he asked.
"Sure," she said. "This one is the gas.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love

“I can wait beyond never.”
― Sarah Beth Durst

“Bookshelves! That was the most perfect thing anyone had ever offered her. Better than jewels or feast or a palace.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“I can't be bound by a past self I don't remember.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Conjured

“Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his turn for only six months. Once, he had gone three years between moves. He preferred a leisurely game.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love