Top 200 Kelley Armstrong Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Just show him that I didn’t need his apology, I guess. Show him that I was okay. Better than okay. I was happy, in spite of everything he’d done to me, and no, I didn’t forgive him. God help me, I would not forgive him.”

— Kelley Armstrong

52. “Remember when we met? Before you left, you said you were going to make a fool of yourself over me. That’s still what you’re worried about. That you’ll find yourself doing things you never dreamed of doing, things you laughed at in others, and you’ll make a fool of yourself.”

— Kelley Armstrong

53. “Comfort and reassurance and a wordless understanding that there is always darkness. In some part of us, there is absolute darkness, as much as we wish otherwise. As much as we pretend otherwise. Anders shifts.”

— Kelley Armstrong

54. “The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn’t be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.”

— Kelley Armstrong

55. “Simon: Anyone ever tell you your sense of timing really sucks? Derek: That’s why I don’t play the drums. Now what’s up?”

— Kelley Armstrong

56. “Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.”

— Kelley Armstrong

57. “I have to. I’ve been fighting it all night. I’m going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it’s an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.”

— Kelley Armstrong

58. “The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.”

— Kelley Armstrong

59. “I’d been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.”

— Kelley Armstrong

60. “I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don’t share my own background, but I commit to doing my best.”

— Kelley Armstrong

61. “No”, Tori said, ” I kidnapped her and forced her to escape with me. I’ve been using her as a human shield against those guys with guns, and I was just about to strangle her and leave her body here to throw them off my trail. But then you showed up and foiled my evil plans. Lucky for you, though. You get to rescue chloe again and win her undying grattitude.”

— Kelley Armstrong

62. “When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. If you shun someone, the effect will trickle down through those who value your opinion.”

— Kelley Armstrong

63. “Derek lunged. He hit me in the shoulder and knocked me to the floor, landing on top of me. His body jerked, like he’d been hit with the spell, and I let out a yelp, struggling to get up, but he held me down, whispering “I’m okay, it’s okay” until the words penetrated.”

— Kelley Armstrong

64. “His eyes met mine, and I looked into them and I felt... I don’t know what I felt. A strange nameless something I couldn’t even identify as a good something or a bad something, could only feel in my gut, jumping and twitching, until I turned away and looked out over the forest.”

— Kelley Armstrong

65. “I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.”

— Kelley Armstrong

66. “You don’t pursue happiness. You pursue everything you need to have a fulfilled life, and then, if you achieve it, you’ll be happy some of the time. The rest of the time, you’ll be consent. One can’t sustain happiness forever.”

— Kelley Armstrong

67. “God, it’s like talking to a cyborg sometimes. You pretend to listen, but really, you’ve just gone on pause, waiting for me to stop so you can reiterate your original point.”

— Kelley Armstrong

68. “Bigger room, darling. Like I said, we need a bigger room.”

— Kelley Armstrong

69. “And he says I have lousy timing.”

— Kelley Armstrong

70. “Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.”

— Kelley Armstrong

71. “We spent the first half hour being escorted around the room, introduced to what seemed like every politician and business leader in the state. I know I should have been impressed, but I couldn’t help thinking that I was in the same room with quite possibly every person responsible for the Florida election snafu, and the subsequent election of George W. Bush, and somehow I couldn’t muster a proper feeling of awe.”

— Kelley Armstrong

72. “Demons are a very human creation. You look for ways to explain evil, and instead of seeing it in yourselves, you offload the responsibility onto monsters. The monstrous exists in the mirror, not in the sulfurous depths of some fantasy world.”

— Kelley Armstrong

73. “Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.”

— Kelley Armstrong

74. “If a bird flies straight at you, prepare for a bad day.”

— Kelley Armstrong

75. “My fourteen-year-old sister Lara is a brat. Unfortunately, no one sees it but me. To everyone else, she’s adorable. She’s tiny and blonde and sweet and as helpless as a kitten. Chloe reminded me of Lara, at first. The difference, as I discovered, is that Chloe really is as sweet as she seems and she isn’t as helpless as she looks.”

— Kelley Armstrong

76. “Mommy forgot to warn the new babysitter about the basement.”

— Kelley Armstrong

77. “Release the demon under promise that I’d be repaid handsomely, my enemies destroyed? Hmm, where had I seen this before? Oh, right. Every demon horror movie ever made. And the horror part started right after the releasing part.”

— Kelley Armstrong

78. “He smiled. Hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug.”

— Kelley Armstrong

79. “There is no freedom from the prison of the mind.”

— Kelley Armstrong

80. “I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn’t freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying. -Paige.”

— Kelley Armstrong

81. “But was it wrong to put yourself first? That’s called survival, right? If you’re running for your life, you don’t get the luxury of being nice. They were going to learn that. It’s fine to wave the pompoms for teamwork – all for one and one for all – but when push came to shove, these guys wouldn’t be risking their lives for Chloe, maybe not even for each other. I was sure of it. Once things got worse, it would be every kid for himself. It always is.”

— Kelley Armstrong

82. “Never go easy on allies if you ahve to take them down. Especially allies. You’re already fighting the urge not to hurt them. Counteract that and hit them with everything you’ve got.”

— Kelley Armstrong

83. “This was a doctor. Sworn to heal, not to judge. But judge she did, in the twist of her lips and the chill of her tone.”

— Kelley Armstrong

84. “Suburbia: a place where they cut down trees and name streets in their memory.”

— Kelley Armstrong

85. “He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.”

— Kelley Armstrong

86. “One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.”

— Kelley Armstrong

87. “I don’t know what a hard-ass feminist is. I’m a feminist, which only means that I think men and women deserve equal treatment. Hardly a groundbreaking concept. But I’m sure you’re about to give an example of where I failed in that.”

— Kelley Armstrong

88. “Vechea mea viata mi se parea ca un vis- un vis in cea mai mare pate placut, lipsit de evenimente. Acum ma trezisem din ele si imi dadusem seama cine si ce eram, cu bune si cu rele. Nu exista nici o cale de a inchide ochii si a aluneca inapoi in acel fericit vis al normalului. Acesta era normalul meu acum.”

— Kelley Armstrong

89. “I want limits, damn it. I’ll accept omens and portents and second sight. I’ll accept giant black hounds and creepy ravens and magpies. I’m still working out the fae and Wild Hunt thing. But I draw the line at people disappearing into thin air.”

— Kelley Armstrong

90. “It was completely fifth garde and completely silly and I loved it, because he wasn’t afraid to be silly. It was like kissing him first – I could do whatever I wanted and not have to worry what he’d think of me.”

— Kelley Armstrong

91. “I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.”

— Kelley Armstrong

92. “I wouldn’t call Gabriel Walsh if I was on fire.” She pursed her lips. “No, I might. To sue everyone responsible – from the person who lit the match to those who made my clothes. But I’d wait until the fire was out. Otherwise, he’d just stand there until I was burned enough for a sizable settlement.”

— Kelley Armstrong

93. “I don’t care if I get one at all. Just as long as I keep getting anniversaries.”

— Kelley Armstrong

94. “So why was his stomach tightening and twisting with every step up those stairs? Because hope was a dangerous thing. It said the failure would be his own fault alone.”

— Kelley Armstrong

95. “Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it’s fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?”

— Kelley Armstrong

96. “You have no idea, do you?” “No, but that sounded good when they said it on Star Trek.”

— Kelley Armstrong

97. “Your mother sets you up blind dates? With guys like that?” The corners of his mouth twitched. “She doesn’t like you very much, does she?”

— Kelley Armstrong

98. “Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn’t impressed.”

— Kelley Armstrong

99. “She’s useful to me, I’m useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions.”

— Kelley Armstrong

100. “As my hair fell free, Cortez entwined his fingers in it and kissed me even harder. Then he slipped one hand from my hair and snapped his fingers over our heads. The lights went out.”

— Kelley Armstrong