Anna Dressed in Blood Quotes
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“You make me want things I can't have.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“You fuck - you ate my cat!”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“But hey, at least we’ll have this strange story to tell, love and death and blood and daddy-issues. And holy crap, I’m a psychiatrist’s wet dream.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“She's my purpose and we're going to save each other. We're going to save everyone. And then I'm going to convince her that she's supposed to stay here. With me.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“God, living people are irritating.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“Land of the Dead? Is that what you dream about?” she asks. “Boy who kills ghosts for a living?”
“No. I dream about penguins doing bridge construction. Don’t ask why.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“No. I dream about penguins doing bridge construction. Don’t ask why.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“I’ve seen most of what
there is to be afraid of in this world, and to tell you the truth,
the worst of them are the ones that make you afraid in the
light. The things that your eyes see plainly and can’t forget
are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.
Imagination has a poor memory; it slinks away and goes
blurry. Eyes remember for much longer.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
there is to be afraid of in this world, and to tell you the truth,
the worst of them are the ones that make you afraid in the
light. The things that your eyes see plainly and can’t forget
are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.
Imagination has a poor memory; it slinks away and goes
blurry. Eyes remember for much longer.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“She’s like Bruce Lee, the Hulk and Neo from The Matrix all rolled in to one.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“I’ve been Obeahed by an Obeahman? Is this like how the Smurfs say they smurfing smurfed all the time?”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“Anna, my strong, terrifying Anna.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“Yes. Smashing. You’ll be just like those four chaps in the movie. You know the one, with the oversized marshmallow.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“I’m not a superhero,” I say. It’s an awful tag. It’s egotistical, and it doesn’t fit. I don’t parade around in spandex.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“Move, hunt, kill. Like lather, rinse, and repeat.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“I hit him with a board; of course he’s got a concussion. Don’t be an idiot.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“It feels so separate, like I’ve touched something that’s taken the color out of me. Or maybe I’m in color now and they’re in black and white.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“I can feel that photo of Anna staring at me from sixty years ago, and I can’t help myself from wanting to protect her, wanting to save her from becoming what she already is.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“Over the course of my life I've been to lots of places. Shadowed places where things have gone wrong. Sinister places where things still are. I always hate the sunlit towns, full of newly built developments with double-car garages in shades of pale eggshell, surrounded by green lawns and dotted with laughing children. Those towns aren't any less haunted than the others. They're just better liars.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“I come in all big and bad, and you use me for a game of handball.” I grin. “Makes a guy feel damn manly. She grins back. “It made me feel pretty manly.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“I peek over the back of the couch and there she is, my goddess of death, her hair snaking out in a great black cloud, her teeth grinding hard enough to make living gums bleed.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“We’re not children, neither of us. We don’t believe in fairy tales. And if we did, who would we be? Not Prince Charming and Sleeping Beauty. I slice murder victims’ heads off and Anna stretches skin until it rips, she snaps bones like green branches into smaller and smaller pieces. We’d be the fricking dragon and the wicked fairy. I know that. But I still have to tell her.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“I think of her again. Anna. Anna Dressed in Blood. I wonder what tricks she'll try. I wonder if she'll be clever. Will she float? Will she laugh or scream?
How will she try to kill me?”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
How will she try to kill me?”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“I don’t have my knife,” I mumble.
“Don’t start that,” Anna says. She walks away from me sharply. “Arthur without Excalibur was still Arthur.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“Don’t start that,” Anna says. She walks away from me sharply. “Arthur without Excalibur was still Arthur.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“Why are you here? Did you come to try to kill me again?” “Oddly enough, no. I—I had a bad dream. I needed to talk to someone.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“I jerk my head toward Thomas and immediately curse myself for trying to be a smartass. My head is not healthy enough for smartassery.”
― Anna Dressed in Blood
― Anna Dressed in Blood
“Would you rather be a Trojan or a tiger?”… “Now what’s this about condoms or tigers?”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“What luck. I chose the douche-y sounding one.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“Anna's eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come closer. New knowledge fills up the air between us and neither of us wants to breathe it in.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“If people knew what I was up to, they'd probably try to stop me. The idiots would take Casper's side, and then I'd have to kill Casper and them after Casper bit their throats out. I'm no superhero.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“I’m dead. I can’t be all right any more than I can be not all right.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood
“I should've known Gideon would spill. He's like a surrogate parent. Not like a stepfather, exactly - more like a godfather, or a sea horse who wants to stuff me into his pouch.”
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― Anna Dressed in Blood