Marked Quotes
"Just when I thought my day couldn't get any worse I saw the dead guy standing next to my locker."
"If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope."
"The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices."
"I sighed and felt my first sliver of anger. It wasn't like I'd asked for this."
"The good news is that I wouldn't have to take the geometry test tomorrow."
"It's okay. I'll figure this out. It's probably some…some bizarre mistake."
"From this day on my life would never be the same."
"I almost passed on my cute aqua-colored sparkly cami, but all that black was bound to make me more depressed…so I included it."
"I wasn't going to live with them ever again. John couldn't tell me what to do anymore."
"The blood dripped steadily into a gash in the rocky ground, making a trail of red tears that fell into the heart of the bluff."
"No, Daughter, I am not, but I know Sylvia Redbird very well."
"No, U-we-tsi a-ge-hu-tsa. You are far from dead."
"Believe in yourself Zoey Redbird. I have Marked you as my own."
"Within you is combined the magic blood of ancient Wise Women and Elders, as well as insight into and understanding of the modern world."
"You are old beyond your years, Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way."
"But remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."
"Welcome to the House of Night, Zoey Redbird."
"From this moment on, you shall be Zoey Redbird. Welcome to your new life."
"What I mean is that it makes no sense that you were just Marked. The crescent isn't an outline. It's completely filled in."
"I think we're gonna get along just fine, Zoey Redbird."
"It stands for our new beginning as we start walking the Path of Night and learn the ways of the Goddess and the possibilities of our new life."
"One thing growing up in a small town like Henrietta taught me is that it's best to mind your own business if you want someone to stay your friend."
"I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want us to be friends."
"The Goddess was so alive here. Her Mark was everywhere."
"We might be, but we also might be polite enough not to ask."
"Just go. Be strong and go. They won't do anything too awful at the ritual."
"It made everything that was ethnic about my features stand out: the darkness of my eyes, my high Cherokee cheekbones, my proud, straight nose, and even the olive color of my skin."
"Monologues seem intimidating, but the key is to get your lines down, and then to imagine that you're actually acting with a full cast of actors."
"She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them."
"When I got here a few weeks ago and my mentor explained that I could change my name to whatever I wanted it to be, I knew I was going to get rid of the Titsworth part."
"But it hadn't seemed like it… it had seemed like he'd been looking at me. And I'd liked it."
"My secret wish is that I belong… that I have finally found a home no one can take away from me."
"We stand separate from the world because of our gifts. Never forget that, because you may be sure the world never will."
"Light… dark… day… night… death… life… all is tied together by spirit and the touch of the Goddess."
"No one was slumped down in a pew sleeping or sneakily doing sudoku."
"This is a time for oneness with the winds that caress us."
"You might meet someone you like and want to hang out. Don't worry about it if you do."
"When in enemy territory it's best to blend in and look inconspicuous and/or stupid."
"No one had called me, or even text-messaged me, since I'd been gone. They'd just let me be dumped here to deal with a new life all on my own."
"Being dressed differently made me feel like I'd shown up at a party dressed like a duck, but no one had told me it wasn't a costume party so everyone else was wearing jeans."
"That's what we call humans—refrigerators and snack bars. You know—breakfast, lunch, and dinner."
"But there was something about this wine that was delicious beyond…well, beyond even Godiva dark chocolate truffles."
"I just want to figure out how to get through this like everybody else."
"It's normal for our bloodlust to develop as our bodies Change, so we need an outlet."
"Keep in mind that I'm the guy for you if you decide you might like to try another sip of blood."
"Yesterday, right before Neferet took me here to the dorm I saw Aphrodite trying to give Erik a blow job."
"It's not real, you know. Acting is all pretend."
"They're just ornamental. Kinda the opposite of how it is in the human world."
"Trusting herself is one of the first things a High Priestess learns to do."
"Everyone thinks you're so damn cute and so damn innocent and they're so damn impressed by that freakish Mark of yours. Everyone but me."
"I'm not one of the kids you can bully. Get this, and get this now. I am not scared of you."
"Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."
"I wish you'd teach me sometime. I've always wanted to learn how to cross-stitch."
"Live as you would be remembered if you would die tomorrow, because you might."
"What we want is what's right. More like justice than revenge."
"We're different than her, and if we somehow manage to take her place, the Dark Daughters, that group will be different, too."
"I don't want to beat Aphrodite up... Well, okay, I might enjoy it, but the truth is that doesn't solve the problem of the Dark Daughters."
"You make me feel different than anyone has ever made me feel before."
"All the other stuff can change, but what's really Zoey—what's been Zoey for sixteen years—is still Zoey."
"I ask that you hear me, spirit, and I summon you to this circle."
"Leave her alone and get the hell out of here!"
"It's okay. We're okay. He's gone. What a brave girl you were."
"This time it wasn't a scream within me. It was the strength of certainty."
"I greeted you, ancestral spirits, and ask that you accept our offering of wine and blood so that you may remember what it is to taste life."
"We all knew both of them. Elizabeth had been nice and quiet. Elliott had been our refrigerator for the past several rituals."
"I won't stop them. If they want him, they can have him. Better him than me—or any of the rest of us."
"This refrigerator crap is the first thing that's ending."
"I wasn't trying to 'win' anything. I was just trying to make things right."
"It's only beginning. It's going to get much worse."