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Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1) QUOTES

Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1) QUOTES

1 " Your goddamn bloodsucking boyfriend's been promising to change you for eight years!" Jen said grimly. "Wake up and smell the plasma, Beth! "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

2 " There are worse things in the world than heartbreak. Finding that out is a rite of passage. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

3 " Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

4 " Life goes on even at the worst of times, and there are some ways no one ever grows up, no matter how long they live or how many lifetimes "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

5 " Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

6 " There's some sort of Soothsayers' Code that prevents soothsayers from soothsaying on a day-to-day basis, when it might, you know, avert this kind of ordinary, everyday tragedy. Something about the laws of causality being broken and the order of creation overturned, resulting in a world run amok, river running backwards, the run rising in the west, cats and dogs getting married...

I don't know; don't ask me.

I don't pretend to understand (...) But I guess it didn't rise to the standard required to break the Soothsayers' Code since no sooth was said. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

7 " By the way, if you're ever conversing with an actual vampire, do not refer to the House of Shadows as Twilight Manor. There's a reason vampires aren't known for their senses of humour.

If you accidentally do so, I'd say run, but it's probably already too late. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

8 " You should embrace your freedom, my lady. Lay down your long burden. You belong to the world of the living. Return to it. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

9 " Despair is a passion unto itself, Daisy,” he said softly. “Do not doubt it. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

10 " How is my favorite little eschatological time bomb? "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

11 " I eyed him. "Are you really Jamaican?"
He returned my gaze evenly. "Why do you think I'm not, sistah?"

"I don't know," I said. "I have to admit, pretty much everything I know about Jamaica comes from watching Cool Runnings, and I'm guessing a Disney movie about Olympic bobsledders isn't the most accurate reference material. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

12 " Hey, sister buzz-kill," she said languorously to Jen. "What crawled up your ass and died?"
"I don't know," Jen retorted. "What died and crawled up your ass?"

There were times I regretted being an only child. This wasn't one of them. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

13 " Ray bent his head toward her, and they smiled at each other, a pair of blissful ghouls in love.

I might have felt sorry for them if the continued existence of their relationship didn't necessitate generating incredible amounts of anguish and misery, which I was apparently next in line to provide. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

14 " It, too, was empty. You might think that would be a given at this hour, but the preserve was a favorite haunt of birdwatchers, and those people are crazy. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)

15 " Envy and anger, two of the Seven Deadlies. I could feel them coiling deliciously in my gut, wanting to rise and consume me. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1)