Lakshmi C > Lakshmi's Quotes

“Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you're going to be leaving the real me, the me nobody else has ever seen, that's who you're going to be rejecting.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me

“Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Anyone But You

“I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Agnes and the Hitman

“Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.”
― MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Uneasy

“Also,I loathe it when you refer to me as dude" Eric Sinclair to Betsy”
― MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Unfinished

“My my Laura Goodman. I must say that is a charming name for a charming young lady."
"Eric's old." I broke in. "Really really old."
"Er— really?" Laura asked. "Gosh you don't look even out of your thirties."
"Tons of face-lifts. He's a surgical addict. I'm trying to get him help." I added defensively when they both gave me strange looks.”
― MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Unappreciated

“I suppose I should say something negative about vampires living in sin," Father Markus said, "but that seems to be the least of your problems.”
― MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Unemployed

“ Okay, this is a fictional character," Lily began. "And he's like a human."
"What?" Adam asked her, looking befuddled. "What the fuck does that mean? He's like a human?" He shook his head and scowled at her.
"He wears clothes!" she said frantically. I had a feeling that this game had Lily on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
"He wears clothes. Great. Well, that narrows it down." The sands of the hourglass were pouring away and Braden, Cam, Jess and I, were laughing our asses off this exchange already.
"And he walks upright!" she added waving her hands frantically.
"I would hope that most of the people in this game walk upright! Give me a real fucking clue already!" Adam had that homicidal look again.
"Duh huh!" she said desperately.
"Hey! All you've told me is that he's a fictional character who wears clothes and walks upright. Don't duh huh me!" he spit out angrily.
"No! No! he says that!" Suddenly she started making barking noises.
"Are you okay?" he asked looking at her like she was nuts.
"Has a place in Florida..." She looked seriously stressed out. I was starting to worry.
"He's retired?" Adam asked, still looking confused.
"He wears bright colored clothes. He tells jokes."
"It sounds like you're describing my Uncle Murray," Adam was shaking his head.
"Time!" I yelled, almost peeing myself I was laughing so hard.
"Goofy! The answer was Goofy!" Lily said with disgust.
"Goofy?! That was the best you could come up with for Goofy?!”
― N.M. Silber, The Home Court Advantage

“You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient.”
― Katie MacAlister, Sex, Lies and Vampires

“You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies?”
― Katie MacAlister, Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang

“Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that.
- T-shirt”
― Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

“Genius has its limitations.
Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker”
― Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

“I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt”
― Darynda Jones, Second Grave on the Left

“It isn’t the fall that will kill you, but the sudden stop.”
― Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

“I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger. - T-SHIRT”
― Darynda Jones, Third Grave Dead Ahead

“I chose the road less traveled. Now I'm lost.”
― Darynda Jones, Third Grave Dead Ahead

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
-Gwen Goodnight”
― Jennifer Crusie, Faking It

“Heartache often drives us to consume things we wouldn't otherwise, such as an entire pint of Caramel Pecan Perfection high-fat ice cream, covered in ganache, the crack cocaine of frozed dairy. Twelve hundred calories per pint, six hundred and eighty of which are fat calories, but is only dulls the pain for the moment, there's that carb fog while you're standing at the sink shoving it in your face, and then it's over and you feel...used. Like a cheap pickup the Dove people seduced and abandoned in your kitchen, leaving you with sticky hands and an empty cup and a still-broken heart, except now you're mad at Dove, too.”
― Jennifer Crusie

“Nothing but good times ahead.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Welcome to Temptation

“Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Faking It

“There was nothing like having a dead husband return from the grave to ruin a fine spring morning.”
― Amanda Quick, Second Sight

“You mustn’t hit her over the head with it. Women like to be romanced like the heroines in the sensation novels.” “What the devil do you know about sensation novels?” “A man can learn a great deal about women from novels,” Matt said. “You should try it sometime.”
― Amanda Quick, Quicksilver

“You know, it would be very easy for Gilmore to break his neck on these stairs," Matt offered with a hopeful air. "Accidents do happen."

"That won't be necessary, thank you," Virginia said.

"Just a leg perhaps?”
― Amanda Quick, Quicksilver

“Once Smith had you, he would most likely have tried to negotiate for the lamp."
Everything inside her warmed gently. "You'd give up the lamp if you thought my life depended on it?"
"Without a second thought."
"Oh, Griffin, I'm truly touched. I know how important the lamp is to you."
"And then I'd slit the bastard's throat."
She groaned and rested her forehead on her knees. "Two birds with one lamp. Who says a crime lord can't be a romantic at heart?”
― Amanda Quick, Burning Lamp

“For pity's sake, you are lying in a coffin, Mrs. Crofton. Unless you wish to be buried, I strongly suggest that you resurrect yourself immediately.”
― Amanda Quick, Quicksilver