Nenia Campbell > Nenia's Quotes

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“In her view, there were three
options for a woman. If you were beautiful, you got married. If you
were ugly, you became a nun. If you were beautiful and stupid, or
ugly and dishonorable, you became a whore.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“You shouldn't be wandering around in
such a big city all by yourself. Even if it is Seattle.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“What is your collective GPA for this year?”

“Not as high as I'd like it to be.”

Freud steepled his fingers in front of his mouth. “What about your parents?”

“I don't know. They haven't been in school for a while.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“Ça va. Nap time is over.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“Too bad. Game over. Insert new fucking quarter.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“I wasn't a complete bastard. If she liked to think she saw good in me, if she wanted to take credit for it, I'd let her. She deserved that much.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“This softening she sees in me isn't enough to make me affectionate, but it's just enough to render me inept. I can't give her what she wants — virtuousness — or what she needs — protection.”
― Nenia Campbell, Cloak and Dagger

“Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away.”
― Nenia Campbell, Endgame

“I hope you nail the bastard.”

So does he.”
― Nenia Campbell, Endgame

“That's not cruel. This is. You come here in the middle of the night, expecting me to be awake, and ask—no, demand—me to give you things that belong to me as much as they belong to you. Never mind what it does to me. Never mind that each time I see you, I wonder if I'll ever hold you in my arms again, or be able to touch you without you cringing away like I'm a monster. I think it's fair to ask if there's an 'us,' my dear, because I suspect you're trying to use me just now. Tell me that's not cruel, and I'll let you go.”
― Nenia Campbell, Endgame

“I know what it is to want something that could destroy you.”
― Nenia Campbell, Endgame

“When mothers warn their daughters about all the cold nasty men out there who will only break their tender little hearts, I'm the one they've got in mind because I'm the one who broke their hearts when their mothers were warning them.”
― Nenia Campbell, Endgame

“That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken”
― Nenia Campbell, Endgame

“Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.”
― Nenia Campbell, Endgame

“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.”
― Stephen King

“Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet; they were that much more dangerous because of it.”
― Nenia Campbell, Fearscape

“I feel I could kill. I feel that I might like it. And I know that this should scare me. But it doesn't. It excites me. I am in Plato's cave, watching the shadows and fraught with the desire to hunt what casts them.”
― Nenia Campbell, Fearscape

“Boys,” Lindsay agreed, nodding. “What doesn't get lost in translation?”

“Things with the letter X in front of them,” Rachel posited. “Like X-Box. And X-rated movies.”
― Nenia Campbell, Fearscape

“Careful,” he said. “If you keep blushing like that I may do more than just draw you.”
― Nenia Campbell, Fearscape

“You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway.”
― Nenia Campbell, Fearscape

“People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone.”
― Nenia Campbell, Fearscape

“Just remember,” he told her. “If you run from me, I will pursue.”
― Nenia Campbell, Fearscape

“Val had a horrific image of Lisa peering through a magnifying glass like a grotesquely teenybopper version of Nancy Drew — in jeggings.”
― Nenia Campbell, Fearscape

“He was still a douchecanoe. The douchecanoe who was going to paddle me to safety.”
― Karina Halle, On Demon Wings

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke