The Silver Kiss Quotes
"It seemed that lately all her conversations with her father had been carried on with a banana refrigerator magnet as intermediary."
"Wouldn't it be ironic if she died, too, fading out suddenly when her look-alike went?"
"How could she wash dishes or wipe counters when God knows what was happening with her mother at the hospital?"
"You can't let yourself get used to it, because that's like giving in."
"You're a dark one," her mother said sometimes with amused wonder. "You're a mystery."
"Her fingers tightened in disgust, crumpling the page."
"But what if something happened and she wasn't even there, all because he couldn't admit to her that Mom might be dying?"
"Why did you have to go and change every damn thing?"
"She was almost as thin as her mother, wasting away with cancer in the hospital."
"Sleeping had taken the place of eating lately."
"It's not her fault, Zoë told herself. It's stupid to think that."
"He wrapped the bloodstained jacket about his shoulders and sank down beneath an azalea bush."
"I'm afraid my mother will die, and my father will grieve forever, and I'll always be alone, because you're going too."
"I'm going out for a walk," she said abruptly.
"Her anger carried her home before she knew it."
"Mothers are supposed to be strong. She's supposed to take care of me."
"This is stupid, Zoë thought. You wanted to help, to prove you belonged."
"There's nothing wrong with plain old Levi's."
"Sometimes he drifted in and out of now, reminded of previous stories he had seen or been a part of."
"Step on a crack; break your mother's back, she thought, remembering childhood magic."
"I'm such a wimp," she said. "I always seem to be crying."
"We never do anything together now, she thought, not even be unhappy together."
"I can't worry her with tales of teenage prowlers."
"Christopher walked with a purpose, once he reached the street."
"Sometimes they slipped through dark backyards, both mere shimmers against the night."
"He had lost himself like that once, for the devil knows how long."
"The train station was lovely and quiet at this time of night."
"Simon settled into the rough stone of the embankment where the streetlights did not reach."
"But there was a click of heels in the distance."
"The woman's shoes clattered an echo in the chill air."
"Simon felt sick. He could almost hear the slurping and gulping of Christopher's gluttony."
"I'm so alone, he thought miserably. I'll be alone forever."
"The chocolate bars, and a bag of cookies she'd found in the back of a kitchen cabinet, had lasted through the first wave of tramps, monsters, and ghouls."
"The doorbell rang again, and Zoë dispensed more pennies."
"Zoë, I've lived the darkest lie of all. I can recognize a lie."
"He was tall and slim... like a dancer a breath before movement."
"It was the year Old Rowley came back behind a Scottish army."
"My father's business flourished, and even one of von Grab's supposed contacts offered to sponsor my father's ventures on the Continent."
"They found her later, in the garden, with her throat slashed."
"That is the way our kind are born, Zoë. It takes the sharing of blood."
"I crashed into a dark and dreamless sleep; the sort of sleep where a person loses contact with his very existence."
"I looked around madly for a weapon and snatched what was at hand."
"You will get stronger, but the color will fade from you as your blood changes."
"Your heart will cease to beat, yet, nevertheless, your blood will crawl through your veins."
"I must have found my way to the outskirts of the city, to the fields, then to the woods."
"I followed reports of a certain type of violence—girls disappearing or found mutilated."
"It was the tender ecstasy of the kissed that he could send her with his touch."
"It pains me to hear you speak like that. So young, and so bitter."
"I almost had him in London in the eighteen eighties, but he got away."
"It was all so senseless, but all part of the same curse."
"It doesn't matter how long you live, the idea of nonexistence is still frightening."
"But I'm still a jerk if you can't talk to me."
"It will always be like this, hard as a wish."
"You're going to make someone an obnoxious wife someday."
"It's survival. You know Diane can't cook squat."
"We don't want you to feel shut out. We never did."
"Live it for all it's worth while you've got it."