Top 255 Quotes & Sayings by P. C. Cast

Vampires are super sexy.

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.

Surrender is a powerful force.

Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with AND THEN THEY DISCONTINUE IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY HATE US AND WANT US TO BE CRAZY.

Within chaos lies opportunity.

Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light and Darkness at their most elemental level, as forces that are so absorbed with themselves that one cannot exist without the other though they constantly try to consume one another. One of the earliest repersentations of Light and Darkness was of Light being a massive black bull and Darkness being an enormous white bull.

Light always underestimates the viciousness of Darkness

You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.

Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.

Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call.

There is a deep power in words that speak the truth

No matter what else, we have love. Always love.

Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.

Comfort is for the lazy and the ugly." Aphrodite

At the last parent visitation night I'd sorta accidentally watched a majorly nightmarish scene between Aphrodite and her parents. Her dad's the mayor of Tulsa. Her mom might be Satan.

Arrayed in a new body another mother may someday give birth so that with stronger limbs and brighter mind the old soul shall take the road to earth again.

True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion

See with your soul and not your eyes because to dance with the beasts you must penetrate their disguise.

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

I prefer my water in wine form.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

It's not just a sunset; it's a moonrise too.

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

Darkness is not always bad, just as light is not always good.

Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

He's not the brightest crayola in the pack.

Since Stark had come back from the Otherworld, he'd been too weak and out of it to do much more than eat, sleep, and play computer games with Seoras, which was actually a super weird sight, it was like high school meets Braveheart meets Call of Duty.

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

Your as slow as a fat kid on crutches

What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.

I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.

The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world.

I've loved you for as long as I can remember, and I'm going to love you for the rest of my life.

A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it," he said.

Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.

Sylvia's dark eyes widened. "You are more than you appear to be" "Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast," he agreed with her. Her lips tilted up. "Can a beast weep in sorrow? Does darkness have the capacity to feel loneliness? I think not.

There's power in the truth, just like there's power in making the right choice

I want to be a Huntress when I grow up!" shouted a voice from the throng. Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.

...Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; harken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night.

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.

I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own. "I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant?" "It makes you a miracle." She held his gaze. "Exactly.