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Quotes by New-zealander Authors
"I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all."
"We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day."
"I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk."
"At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young."
"President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly."
"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."
"She fucking turns me inside out.""Women who matter have a way of doing that." Lucas scowled. "We sound like a couple of women, talking about feelings. I think Sascha's having a bad influence on me.""You started it."
"She walked into her bathroom, stripped, and entered the shower.The door opened a minute later to expose Riley standing there, beer in hand.Scraping damp strands of red off her face, she glared at him. "I don't remember giving you an invitation.""You said to amuse myself while you shower." A slow, slow, deliciously slow."
"The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces."
"The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers."
"The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought."
"You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri. A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. "So I had to come back for you . . . husband."
"So you really meant what you said to me yesterday?" Her voice rose. "I should find myself a nice wolf and settle down?" He fought off the rising incursions of dissonance, the razor blades sliding through his brain stem and traveling down his spine. "That would be rushing things."
"One thing I've always wondered-why did you enter that bikini contest when you were a teenager? Her face flushed with a mixture of anger and embarrassment. "How far back did you trace me? "Far enough. A pause. "You didn't answer my question. "And you didn't turn into a puff of smoke and disappear. The world is full of disappointments."
"You trying to make me crazy? "Everyone needs a hobby."
"Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?"
"There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates."
"We're all as susceptible to the lure of power."
"You're walking funny," Lucy said, a shit-eating grin on her face. Five days of out of this world sex with a starving man could do that to a girl."You're just jealous." Brenna pushed through the door into DarkRiver's business HQ.Lucy made a mournful face. "Yes, I am. Goddamn but your man is hot. And he smiles at you! I've seen him do it, even if no one believes me."
"Where did you get the control sample?" A flash of dark heat raced through him and he knew himself well enough to identify it as a dose of pure jealousy. "From Tamsyn." A pause, as if she was debating whether to continue. "I know you'd react negatively if I approached a make. You're... possessive." "Sugar, I'm way past possessive." His voice was no longer fully human."
"Raphael met Michaela's gaze. "If you could kill every single beautiful woman in the world, would you?"Her smile never faded. "In an instant."
"Sentinel meeting tonight, Ria told her. "At Lucas's place. "Time? ..."Seven. Sascha's doing dinner. "God save us all. Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back."
"Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood."
"She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body as he stroked her in that changeling way, bonding with her on the most elemental level. Then he purred, and Naya made a happy little sound of delight, very much a cat in her love of touch."
"Only ignorance excuses stupidity."
"Riley : "Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on."Mercy: "Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies."
"We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge."
"I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory."
"You're in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love's not a strong enough word-you have my devotion, your name branded on my soul, my wolf yours to command. A hundred years? It'll never be enough. I want eternity."
"You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's death did to the boy I was? You have the ability to do a thousand times worse to the man I've become."
"Solo mirarte me proporciona el placer más intenso que jamás haya sentido."
"There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party."
"You almost died. "But you brought me back. She cupped his face in her hands. "I always knew you were there. Death didn't have a chance against the Wall."
"Can you two keep from tearing each other's throats out during however long it takes to find Nash?" Lucas's dry tone did nothing to hide the feline amusement in his eyes as he broke into her line of sight. "Or maybe I should be worrying about clothes instead?"
"Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he'd made her, she met his gaze, those eerie eyes of endless black impenetrable, unreadable. "Max?" "Yes?""Will you remember me?"His heart broke into a thousand pieces. "Always."
"But plants grow again," She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. "They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil."
"Come make me sticky.Dimitri to Honor."
"Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless."
"I can smell blood, Elena, Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. "Are you trying to flirt?"
"You'll have to be my conscience. He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. "Mine isn't going to grow back."
"Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do."
"A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten."
"Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them."
"We fit, you and I, he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. "Two broken pieces making a whole."
"Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas- he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him."
"You said I could pet you as long as I liked. "Didn't say I wouldn't try to fuck you in the middle of the petting. Her eyes snapped up to meet his. "That's feline logic. You're a wolf. "I'm learning from the best."
"A woman who knows me, understands what I am, and who wants to have secret rules with me."
"It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy."
"How do you know it'll be pleasurable?" He got on the bed and lay down.Breath a whisper, she came closer and tied one wrist to the headboard. The cat growled but didn't try to make him wrench free."Because just looking at you gives me the most extreme pleasure I've ever felt.""Christ, baby, tie me up before you start talking like that."
"Boyfriend?Her cheeks heated. "Yes."Funny name."What? She frowned. "Ernest is a perfectly nice name."Oh, I thought I heard you call him Ermine."
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