Buffy Andrews Quotes

The power of the delete key. ~ Buffy Andrews

Climax: It's all downhill from here. ~ Buffy Andrews

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble! ~ Buffy Andrews

Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens. ~ Buffy Andrews

Characters are like kids. They want to be played with, taken on adventures. And they won't let you rest until you do. ~ Buffy Andrews

A cliffhanger is when ... ~ Buffy Andrews

I was just thinking that he might be willing. It's not like he needs his semen. ~ Buffy Andrews

Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict? ~ Buffy Andrews

Do you remember the time, Mike," Jeremy laughed, "that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on. ~ Buffy Andrews

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time. ~ Buffy Andrews

Me to characters: talk to me people. ~ Buffy Andrews

If rejections were cash, I'd be rich ~ Buffy Andrews

I am so over you, Rejection. You can't get to me like that anymore. I won't let you squash my hopes and dreams. (Slams door) So there! ~ Buffy Andrews

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us. ~ Buffy Andrews

A tweet a day keeps writer's block away. ~ Buffy Andrews

Rejection. Rejection. You can't handle rejection! ~ Buffy Andrews

You deserve good sperm. You've waited a long time. ~ Buffy Andrews

Jesus fuckin' Christ, Gina. You were my dream. You've always been my dream. Don't you see? You were always more important to me than baseball – than anything. ~ Buffy Andrews

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric. ~ Buffy Andrews

Show me the contract. ~ Buffy Andrews

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know. ~ Buffy Andrews

I'll pray for good semen. And I'll get all of my friends to pray for good semen. ~ Buffy Andrews

If you see it in Strunk and White it's so. ~ Buffy Andrews

The sight washed over me like a damn wave that you never see coming until it's too late and you're face down eating sand. ~ Buffy Andrews

I wear the writer pants in the family. ~ Buffy Andrews

It's a great day to write a best-seller. ~ Buffy Andrews

Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home. ~ Naveen Andrews

Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim ~ Ilona Andrews

The very beating of your heart has meaning and purpose. Your actions have value far greater than silver or gold. ~ Andy Andrews

Knowledge of every aspect of human life, physical and spiritual is plentiful today. ~ Ted Andrews

The newcomer struck him as an enterprising sort of man. The kind that would slit your throat for a box of tissues in your bag while you slept. ~ Ilona Andrews

I would really like to know", he said with genuine curiosity. "The next time I kill someone, I'd like to do it in a way that doesn't freak you out. ~ Ilona Andrews

I chuckled to myself and kept walking. The Universe had proven Curran wrong: a person who aggravated him more than me did, in fact, exist. ~ Ilona Andrews

Scared?"
Terrified. "Of you? Nah. If you grow claws, I might get my sword, but I've fought you in your human shape." It took all my will to shrug. "You aren't that impressive."
He cleared the distance between us in a single leap. I barely had time to jump to my feet. Steel fingers grasped my left wrist. His left arm clasped my waist. I fought, but he outmuscled me with ridiculous ease, pulling me close as if to tango.
"Curran! Let . . . "
I recognized the angle of his hip but I could do nothing about it. He pulled me forward and flipped me in a classic hip-toss throw. Textbook perfect. I flew through the air, guided by his hands, and landed on my back. The air burst from my lungs in a startled gasp. Ow.
"Impressed yet?" he asked with a big smile.
Playing. He was playing. Not a real fight. He could've slammed me down hard enough to break my neck. Instead he had held me to the end, to make sure I landed right.
He leaned forward a little. "Big bad merc, down with a basic hip toss. In your place I'd be blushing."
I gasped, trying to draw air into my lungs.
"I could kill you right now. It wouldn't take much. I think I'm actually embarrassed on your behalf. At least do some magic or something."
As you wish. I gasped and spat my new power word. "Osanda." Kneel, Your Majesty.
He grunted like a man trying to lift a crushing weight that fell on his shoulders. His face shook with strain. Ha-ha. He wasn't the only one who got a boost ~ Ilona Andrews

In my experience, the ex-military guys came in two types. The first grew long hair, sprouted beards, and indulged in all the things they hadn't been able do while they'd been in the armed forces. The second did their best to pretend they never got out. ~ Ilona Andrews

When people have something proven to them, and they see that it really benefits them, they don't have to be looking for a change or be at rock bottom. When they see something proven that is of benefit to them, they'll turn around 180 degrees and never look back. ~ Andy Andrews

What's Julie's number?"
Curran glanced at me.
"Julie's fluctuating between thirty-two and thirty-four units. Her shift coefficient is six point five and she's been at it for sixteen hours."
Dear God, I'd need a damn calculator. ~ Ilona Andrews

I am not a "Christian author." I am an author who is a Christian. While my books reflect my faith, they are not intended as teaching tools for a Christian audience per se. My books are stories created around principles that work for everyone and they work every time. ~ Andy Andrews

Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight. ~ Andy Andrews

Kate smirked.
"What?"
"Your horse looks pink."
"So?"
"If you paste some stars on her butt you'll be riding My Little Pony."
"Bugger off." I patted the mare's neck. "Don't listen to her, Sugar. You are the cutest horsey ever. The correct name for her color is strawberry roan, by the way."
"Strawberry Shortcake, more like it. Does Strawberry Shortcake know you stole her horse? She will be berry, berry angry with you."
I looked at her from under half-lowered eyelids. "I can shoot you right here, on this road, and nobody will ever find your body. ~ Ilona Andrews

There was a war going on in our house. A silent war that sounded no guns, and the bodies that fell were only wishes that died and the bullets were only words and the blood that spilled was always called pride. ~ V.C. Andrews

She'd been around long enough to know that it was a rare man who fully accepted responsibility for his actions, who didn't offer any excuses. ~ Ilona Andrews

He wanted to wear sweatpants, because "they tear easier." I asked him if he wanted me to get him some male stripper jeans so he could avoid looking like a Russian gangster from pre-Shift movies, after which he got all offended and put on a pair of regular jeans instead. ~ Ilona Andrews

Every time I think you've reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe - ever expanding. ~ Ilona Andrews

If I lose control, you'll be the first to know."
"I'm quite perturbed by the idea. ~ Ilona Andrews

Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword. ~ Ilona Andrews

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. ~ Robert Andrews Millikan

Males and farts. Any species, any planet, didn't matter. We ~ Ilona Andrews

I didn't say I just wanted sex."
"Let me quote: 'Do you want seduction, dinners, and gifts? Seduction is a game, and if you pay enough in flattery, money, or attention, you get what you want. I thought you were above the game.' Did you not say that to me a week before you strolled into my garage to invite me on 'a date'?"
"Yes. I wanted to skip the bullshit."
"So what happened? You changed your mind and now you want the bullshit?"
Rogan's phone chimed. "Yes, I want your bullshit."
"Well, you don't get to have any of my bullshit. I'm keeping it." Okay, and that didn't sound childish. Not at all. ~ Ilona Andrews

Quentin wasn't stupid, despite living what his father called 'a lifestyle unworthy of yourself'. ~ Ros Baxter

Aha! So I'm not crazy."
"You are most definitely crazy," Derek said. "But in a deranged, endearing way. ~ Ilona Andrews

You usually can't go wrong if you state the obvious. ~ Glenn Andrews

Voshak's hair, a pale blond braid, which he bleached, was his trademark. It made him memorable. That's how the slavers operated. They adopted costumes and personas, trying to make themselves larger-than-life and hoping to inspire fear. They counted on that fear. One could fight a man, but nobody could fight a nightmare. ~ Ilona Andrews

Betrayal was fucked up like that. It left the kind of scars on your soul that were so deep and permanent they were a constant reminder of the battle you endured. ~ Faith Andrews

I lay so still in the gloom I could hear the house breathe, and the boards of the floors whispered, conniving a way to keep me here forever. ~ V.C. Andrews

I have to ask you something." Stumbling over words, I described my encounter with Edward. "I have to meet him at the railroad trestle next week. I'm supposed to do something when I get there, but he didn't say what…" My voice trailed away. The expression on Andrew's face told me he knew exactly what I was talking about.
"Drat," he muttered. "That low-down skunk. I was hoping he'd forgotten."
Andrew hesitated. Without looking at me, he picked up a piece of chalk and started drawing a little train on the floor. Concentrating on his sketch, he said, "Before I got sick, Edward dared me to jump off the trestle."
My heart beat faster. "Is that what I'm supposed to do? Jump off?"
"Now, now, don't get all het up, Drew. It's not as bad as you think." Carefully, Andrew added a curlicue of smoke to his drawing. "You walk out on the trestle and jump in the river. Then you swim to shore. It's a simple as one two three." He tapped the chalk three times for emphasis.
My mouth was so dry I could hardly speak. Lying down between the rails or dynamiting the train might be better than this. "How high is the trestle?"
Instead of answering my question, Andrew said, "It's a test of manhood. Lots of boys have done it."
I wasn't interested in testing my manhood or hearing about other boys. I just wanted to know what was going to happen to me. Me--a boy who was scared to jump off a diving board into eight feet of crystal-clear chlorinated water. ~ Mary Downing Hahn

Man is an ape with possibilities. ~ Roy Chapman Andrews

Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called. ~ Andy Andrews

There will be many times in your lives
at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up
when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed. ~ Julie Andrews Edwards

She swept away, putting an extra kink into her walk. I would not have thought that a woman with an ass that bony could make it wiggle so much but she proved me wrong. ~ Ilona Andrews

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it. ~ Julie Andrews Edwards

But the hardest is watching your son watching his friend die. ~ Jesse Andrews

The Kodiak of Atlanta was brave and powerful and the closest thing to a father Curran had. He also had an uncanny ability to alienate everyone in the room and then have to defend himself when a brawl broke out. He took self-defense seriously. Sometimes there was no building left standing when he was done. ~ Ilona Andrews