Ysabella > Ysabella's Quotes

“I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into.”
― Ellen Schreiber

“Black is a girl's best friend.”
― Ellen Schreiber, The Coffin Club

“You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of the one hudred and forty days of school so far."

So thirty-one might be the magic number?"


Principal Reed and Raven”
― Ellen Schreiber, Vampireville

“I'm going to a dance."
With Becky?"
No, with Alexander."
Who's Alexander?"
The love of my life!”
― Ellen Schreiber, Vampire Kisses

“I want a relationship
I can finally sink my teeth into."
-Alexander Sterling”
― Ellen Schreiber, Vampire Kisses

“I always felt sorry for humans, spending so much time in front of the mirror. Fixing their hair, makeup, and clothes, mostly to impress others. Did they really see themselves in the mirror? Was it what they wanted to see? Did it make them feel good or bad? And mostly I wondered if they based their self-image on their reflected one.”
― Ellen Schreiber, Kissing Coffins

“Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?”
― Ellen Schreiber, Love Bites

“I'm looking for someone
to quench my thirst-for all eternity"
-Luna Maxwell”
― Ellen Schreiber, Vampireville

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
― Cathy Guiswite

“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
― Bill Cosby

“What, are you like Buffy or something? A vampire slayer?”
I wish. “No, but my sister is. And my boyfriend’s a vampire so I know a lot about their kind.”
Jayden shrinks back from me, wide-eyed.
“No, no. He’s one of the good ones. Not all vampires are evil,” I assure him.
“So…you’re dating…Edward Cullen.”
“Sure, if you have to relate it all to a Stephenie Meyer book,” I grudgingly agree. “But don’t say that to Magnus’s face. He’s a card-carrying member of Team Jacob. Even has the T-shirt.”
― Mari Mancusi, Bad Blood

“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“And he smiled at her, truely smiled- wicked and lovely...”
― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely

“Once upon a time there was a girl."

"Not a princess?!"

"No, definitely not! She was too smart to be a princess. Tough too...Stronger than anyone realized."

"Does she live happily ever after?"

"Shouldn't there be something in the middle?"

"I like to read the ending first." (Wicked Lovely)”
― Melissa Marr

“What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan”
― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely

“Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.”
― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely

“Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.”
― Melissa Marr, Radiant Shadows

“He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“Do you ever wonder if what you look at is the same thing everyone else is seeing?'
He went even stiller at her side. 'Sometimes I'm sure it isn't the same...but that's not so bad is it? Seeing the world in a different way?'
Creative vision creates art' he motioned around the gallery 'that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's a beautiful thing.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“It was the only way he knew to protect the court, the faery, and the only mortal who'd ever mattered to him.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“He didn't slam the door, didn't rage, didn't weep, he simply left.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“Going backwards is never an option.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“Leslie?" Irial whispered. "What are you doing?"
"Choosing."
Tears were soaking the blanket under Leslie's face.
"I'm mine. Not anyone else's."
"I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl." And then he was gone, and her emotions crashed over her.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“-"You won't like me if I'm cruel."
-"I don't like you now."
-"We don't lie."
-"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange