Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing
KIERSTEN WHITE Oh, bleep.
KIERSTEN WHITE Faeries and vampires were glittery now? Honestly.
KIERSTEN WHITE And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d ...
KIERSTEN WHITE The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she...
KIERSTEN WHITE She swung her fist at Nicolae’s head. He raised an arm to block the blow, and she delivered a kill...
KIERSTEN WHITE Why does IPCA use them if they’re evil?” he asked, confused.
“They aren’t evil. They ar...
KIERSTEN WHITE Many of the male faeries had their shirts unbuttoned and chests bare. (How’s this for freaky: no n...
KIERSTEN WHITE Faeries are unaffected by alcohol, but much to her surprise—and the faeries’ undoing—they get ...
KIERSTEN WHITE What’s the point in hating something if you aren’t proactive?
KIERSTEN WHITE Jack might look my age, but he was like a little kid on a sugar high --- in need of a good spanking....
KIERSTEN WHITE Bogdan screamed as Lada—Ladislav, now five, refused to answer to her full name—bit down on his t...
KIERSTEN WHITE You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.
KIERSTEN WHITE I sighed. I hate the vamp jobs. They think they're so suave. It's not enough for them to slaughter a...
KIERSTEN WHITE Just as he reached for my neck, I tased him. I was there to bag and tag, not to kill. Besides, if I ...
KIERSTEN WHITE ...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else i...
KIERSTEN WHITE Fabulous" Jack said, reaching down and plucking a crimson flower. A small scream sounded from it as ...
KIERSTEN WHITE Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love r...
KIERSTEN WHITE I don't dislike them, nor do I like them. I've never understood why one must love children simply be...
KIERSTEN WHITE Be prepared,' that's my motto." He smiled smugly at me. "That, and 'Sleep whenever possible.' Oh, an...
KIERSTEN WHITE On our wedding night," she said, "I will cut out your tongue and swallow it. Then both tongues that ...
KIERSTEN WHITE Where are you going?" I asked, feeling guilty for not being able to hang out with him.
"To find...
KIERSTEN WHITE Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought ...
KIERSTEN WHITE Yo soy carne muerta.
KIERSTEN WHITE She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or t...
KIERSTEN WHITE Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat.
KIERSTEN WHITE Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!'
'Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink ...
KIERSTEN WHITE What, no flirting?” I asked, trying to buy time. “Aren’t you going to at least try to be sexy?...
KIERSTEN WHITE I guess I can't blame him for feeling bitter. Going from being the terror of Bulgarian nights to a j...
KIERSTEN WHITE I can’t see through clothes or anything. Just glamour skin. Except I can see through all of you, s...
KIERSTEN WHITE Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the uni...
KIERSTEN WHITE I hate the vamp jobs. They think they're so suave. It's not enough for them to slaughter and eat you...
KIERSTEN WHITE Normal? What's that?"

"How you really look."

"Can you take off all your clothe...
KIERSTEN WHITE If you fail to report within the next 12 hours. you will be terminated. If you attack any humans, yo...
KIERSTEN WHITE Yes, I have a driver's license."

I leaned back against the wall, sighing. "Man, that must...
KIERSTEN WHITE Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep.
KIERSTEN WHITE We are that tree," he said, then rode ahead...
It was twisted and small but green, growing side...
KIERSTEN WHITE Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her co...
KIERSTEN WHITE Time, the moon, arguments, and, most of all, coins. All good things are circular.
KIERSTEN WHITE You look ridiculous. Armor suits you far more than silk."
"Take me with you, and I will wear ar...
KIERSTEN WHITE You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tip
o...
KIERSTEN WHITE If Lada was the spiky green weed that sprouted in the midst of a drought-cracked riverbed, Radu was ...
KIERSTEN WHITE Where are you idiots taking me?"
"Patience, Lada," Mehmed said.
"I am going to start slee...
KIERSTEN WHITE Ugh," she muttered, tugging his hair. "Your are so pretty. Like delicate butterfly beneath my boot."...
KIERSTEN WHITE Lada looked up into her father's eyes, deep-set and etched with years of cunning and cruelty. She no...
KIERSTEN WHITE I am no slave. This is my city! "
Lada snorted. "And I am the queen of Byzantium." She turned o...
KIERSTEN WHITE Lada had a sense for power--the fine threads that connected everyone around her, the way those threa...
KIERSTEN WHITE The sooner you stop fighting, the easier your life will be. That is what your purpose is."
Lana...
KIERSTEN WHITE But you always have a choice. You can choose to find comfort and solace in God. You can choose to be...
KIERSTEN WHITE You are the only real thing in my life.
KIERSTEN WHITE Well, are you ready, Lada Dragwlya, daughter of the dragon?" Fire burned in her heart, and her wound...
KIERSTEN WHITE And so she cut out her heart and offered it as a sacrifice. She would pay whatever price her mother ...
KIERSTEN WHITE We cannot always have what we want, no matter how much we want it,
KIERSTEN WHITE The price of living seems to always be death."
Tohin stood, joints popping audibly. "And that i...
KIERSTEN WHITE She plucked a rose and held it to her face. She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fra...
KIERSTEN WHITE I think of you like a sister," he said. "Like a brilliant, violent, occasionally terrifying sister t...
KIERSTEN WHITE If you are too weak to stand being hit and too stupid to avoid it, then you deserve more pain.
KIERSTEN WHITE They are less than the mud. You do not get angry at the mud for clinging to your shoe. You wipe it o...
KIERSTEN WHITE ..If anyone is going to kill you, it will be me. Understand?"
Radu nodded, snuggling into her s...
KIERSTEN WHITE I cannot afford to lose you, too"
"You cannot lose something you do not own. Take me with you
KIERSTEN WHITE Souls and thrones are irreconcilable.
KIERSTEN WHITE As the baby latched on with surprising fierceness, the nurse offered her own prayer.
Let her be...
KIERSTEN WHITE So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken...
KIERSTEN WHITE I do not take orders from women.”
“My men do not have a similar problem.” Lada lifted a h...
KIERSTEN WHITE No!” Lada shook her head, eyes still wild. “I cannot go in there! If a woman enters the harem co...
KIERSTEN WHITE Eleanor laughs. “Oh, I know that, silly. But it’s easier not to let them realize it, because the...
KIERSTEN WHITE ...I don't understand this gap you see between us, but can't you meet me somewhere in the middle?" KIERSTEN WHITE Did you do this?”
“There are other ways to beat someone than with fists.” Radu poked her ...
KIERSTEN WHITE Clinical, brilliantly medical-minded Adam believes in fate. A fate with Fia.
KIERSTEN WHITE I’m very familiar with how Fia fights.” I smirk. “I’m so glad one of us kicked your butt.
KIERSTEN WHITE You really care about my sister, don’t you?” I don’t want him to. He’s so sweet. I can’t i...
KIERSTEN WHITE It’s about Fia. Everything always is, even when she is nowhere near, even when she left all of us....
KIERSTEN WHITE I’m your big sister. I don’t have to see anything to know James is always something bad.”
KIERSTEN WHITE We have another friend in common. Sweetest girl. She’s like a sane version of you. Goes by Annie.
KIERSTEN WHITE Crazy must run in your family,” he says.
“You do know Fia!” I blurt, then bite my lip.
KIERSTEN WHITE This is the tragedy of knowing my fate: I have seen how it ends, and I will walk right into it, and ...
KIERSTEN WHITE Cole gets up and then says, “Adam. Five texts. I can read them to you.” He pauses. “Unless the...
KIERSTEN WHITE I’ll take care of her.”
“She’s not yours to take care of.
KIERSTEN WHITE Silly. Dark isn’t scary. Dark is safe.”
“Why?”
“I live in the dark all the time...
KIERSTEN WHITE Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago�...
KIERSTEN WHITE Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went somethi...
KIERSTEN WHITE We know we can dominate and we expect to dominate. We're not swimming to win because we know we're g...
KIERSTEN THOMPSON No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces tha...
BARRY WHITE People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I wo...
RON WHITE I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
RON WHITE The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant....
RON WHITE I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
RON WHITE When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
RON WHITE Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
RON WHITE I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretch...
RON WHITE I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.
RON WHITE Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
RON WHITE I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
RON WHITE There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people w...
RON WHITE The next time you have a thought... let it go.
RON WHITE I was a comedy fan when I was a little kid.
RON WHITE Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be...
RON WHITE I love Cincinnati, but you can keep that spaghetti chili product!
RON WHITE When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn't have much water in it. It was for drain...
RON WHITE I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as th...
RON WHITE Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!
RON WHITE I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.
RON WHITE You can't fix stupid.
RON WHITE I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply...
RON WHITE I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
RON WHITE A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.
MIKE WHITE The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. Th...
WAYNE WHITE I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there does...
WAYNE WHITE If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunn...
WAYNE WHITE Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasi...
WAYNE WHITE But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude o...
WAYNE WHITE I feel for the players.
VANNA WHITE So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the televis...
VANNA WHITE There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we&...
VANNA WHITE I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.
VANNA WHITE I do everything that everybody else does.
VANNA WHITE I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
VANNA WHITE I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
VANNA WHITE I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies...
VANNA WHITE It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
VANNA WHITE I'm really just a normal person.
VANNA WHITE Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ...
JACK WHITE A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th...
JACK WHITE I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ...
JACK WHITE I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri...
JACK WHITE There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ...
JACK WHITE If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e...
JACK WHITE We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s...
JACK WHITE I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But...
JACK WHITE I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th...
JACK WHITE I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing...
JACK WHITE I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther...
JACK WHITE Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ...
JACK WHITE I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li...
JACK WHITE I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong...
JACK WHITE With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
JACK WHITE When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h...
JACK WHITE I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ...
JACK WHITE I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro...
JACK WHITE There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&...
JACK WHITE I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to real...
JACK WHITE Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skat...
SHAUN WHITE Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence ...
PATRICK WHITE In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and Germ...
PATRICK WHITE I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining ta...
PATRICK WHITE Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the...
PATRICK WHITE My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriag...
PATRICK WHITE I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the ...
PATRICK WHITE Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose m...
PATRICK WHITE I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher...
PATRICK WHITE When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whe...
PATRICK WHITE In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent f...
PATRICK WHITE I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by ...
PATRICK WHITE If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, ...
BETTY WHITE I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to ...
E.B. WHITE This is a vicious witch-hunt aimed at crushing the voice of dissent.
AIDAN WHITE At a time when editorial independence needs to be defended, we find the closure of this newspaper sh...
AIDAN WHITE There is a great deal of concern that there is a fundamentalist religiosity emerging that is demandi...
AIDAN WHITE The media community is determined to create a meaningful dialogue that will improve understanding be...
AIDAN WHITE Impunity in the killing of journalists remains the intolerable scandal of our times that can no long...
AIDAN WHITE Baghdad has become a deathtrap for journalism. No journalist is safe once they take to the streets.
AIDAN WHITE We are asking the government to intervene on behalf of all Canadians. CBC should be providing local ...
AIDAN WHITE The Tunisian authorities continue to show intolerance of independent opinion and free expression. Bu...
AIDAN WHITE No. That is not what I heard him say.
AIDAN WHITE One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITE Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as ...
BARRY WHITE Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE The whole system of society tells you what to do.
BARRY WHITE I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my...
BARRY WHITE People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me...
BARRY WHITE I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I...
BARRY WHITE We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beg...
BARRY WHITE The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Tho...
BARRY WHITE When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every wor...
BARRY WHITE I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's ag...
SHAUN WHITE I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place l...
SHAUN WHITE Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad th...
MEG WHITE It is amazing how generous people really are. This has really been a great thing.
ALAN WHITE Our strategy is to focus on those areas where we can have a good competitive advantage, so we do thi...
ALAN WHITE It's too bad that the taxpayers have to bear the brunt of additional bills,
ALAN WHITE Obasanjo has absolutely no control over this guy, ... like a head of state down there.
ALAN WHITE It is a great relief to finally have won our first game, especially against such a strong side as Ro...
ALAN WHITE Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
HALE WHITE There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art ...
HALE WHITE When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no dange...
HALE WHITE If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been importe...
EDMUND WHITE I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West...
EDMUND WHITE If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned to...
EDMUND WHITE Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends o...
EDMUND WHITE Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus C...
EDMUND WHITE