Seth Grahame-Smith
Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.Collection: Skirts
No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.Collection: Daughter
This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.Collection: Idle Chatter
On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.Collection: Mouths
My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.Collection: Enemy
I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?Collection: Errors
Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.Collection: Men
I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.Collection: America
Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.Collection: Beautiful
We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.Collection: May
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.Collection: Book
It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.Collection: Grief
The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.Collection: Men
The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.Collection: Evil
Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.Collection: Old Friends
So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.Collection: Country
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even seeCollection: Character
However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.Collection: Long
Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?Collection: Song
The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.Collection: Return
The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.Collection: Men
…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of his life, and bring a fledgeling nation to the brink of collapse. I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.Collection: America
We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampireCollection: Vampire
It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.” “That you speak of them with such reverence, Mr. Poe, seems madness to me.” "Can you imagine it? Can you imagine seeing the universe through such eyes? Laughing in the face of time and death—the world your Garden of Eden? Your library? Your harem?Collection: Beautiful
But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?Collection: Kings
Hug your children...Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.Collection: Mother
I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.Collection: Laughing
I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.Collection: Vampire Hunter
So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.Collection: Stupid
And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?Collection: Cities
But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.Collection: Ambition
Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.Collection: Opportunity
Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!Collection: Falling In Love
My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.Collection: War
And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.Collection: Taken
I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.Collection: Taken
America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.Collection: America
I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.Collection: Loneliness
Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person’s side of the story. Sometime it’s easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.Collection: Stories
I’ve always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.Collection: Reading
My job on ‘Dark Shadows’ was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.Collection: Fun
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it – mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction – I don’t know if I want to do that anymore.Collection: Stories
It’s absurd to think of ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you’re reading for a while.Collection: Reading
So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that’s the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.Collection: Reading
I’ve been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.Collection: Reading