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Quotes by New-zealander Authors
"To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience."
"It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books."
"I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress."
"New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications."
"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."
"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."
"Ransom really looked at the other man for the first time, shook his head, stared again."Holy hell, your eyes are like a fucking viper's. Venom raised an eyebrow."You have hair prettier than one of Astaad's concubines. Ransom gave the vampire the finger. Venom grinned."
"It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection."
"I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today."
"It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us."
"There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party."
"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."
"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."
"This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary."
"Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?"
"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."
"We're all as susceptible to the lure of power."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael's Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he'd once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown . . . that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness."
"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."
"Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?"
"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."
"Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless."
"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."
"I can smell blood, Elena, Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. "Are you trying to flirt?"
"We fit, you and I, he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. "Two broken pieces making a whole."
"Solo mirarte me proporciona el placer más intenso que jamás haya sentido."
"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."
"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."
"Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you.-Raphael"
"Only ignorance excuses stupidity."
"Riley : "Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on."Mercy: "Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies."
"You trying to make me crazy? "Everyone needs a hobby."
"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?"
"Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do."
"Hope is the greatest gift and the greatest evil...Hope saved us and hope might yet kill us."
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