Top 200 Kelley Armstrong Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn’t impressed.”

— Kelley Armstrong

102. “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

103. “You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.”

— Kelley Armstrong

104. “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

105. “We have Kenjii. We have my cell phone. Since we aren’t officially dating, I’m sure you’ll agree that’s all the protection we need.”

— Kelley Armstrong

106. “You’d expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.”

— Kelley Armstrong

107. “Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.”

— Kelley Armstrong

108. “He looked like a Yanni fan at an Iron Maiden Concert.”

— Kelley Armstrong

109. “Do I pass, Dr. Saunders?”

— Kelley Armstrong

110. “I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I’d glimpse something underneath, and he’d snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.”

— Kelley Armstrong

111. “Between Ricky’s charm and persuasion and Gabriel’s lock picking and sleight of hand, if I took enough lessons, I could become a first-rate private eye. Or a master criminal.”

— Kelley Armstrong

112. “People today work as hard, if not harder, than they did thirty years ago. The only difference is the quality of the work they perform. They no longer accomplish anything of value. They only service the machines.”

— Kelley Armstrong

113. “You have no idea what a fairy circle is, do you? Which is shocking for a changeling child.”

— Kelley Armstrong

114. “There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don’t realistically work, if you’re trying to say they have existed for hundreds of years, unknown.”

— Kelley Armstrong

115. “I think you intentionally overreacted. Like killing a fly with a baseball bat, just to make sure it never bothers you again.”

— Kelley Armstrong

116. “Guess it didn’t matter if it was a group home or summer camp, guys and their stomachs didn’t change.”

— Kelley Armstrong

117. “At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At first, I’d thought the teacher was raising snack food, which impressed me, being the first sign of intelligence she’d shown. Soon, though, I’d figured out the animals’ true purpose and left them alone, though I would never understand the appeal of petting and coddling perfectly good food.”

— Kelley Armstrong

118. “A lot of stories about me getting into trouble start with a girl.”

— Kelley Armstrong

119. “Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence.”

— Kelley Armstrong

120. “So consider your options, make your choice and call me home.”

— Kelley Armstrong

121. “I’d said to myself once that Gabriel preferred a life where he felt as little responsibility for others as possible. That was true. But even more true is the fact that he preferred a life where others felt no responsibility for him.”

— Kelley Armstrong

122. “Sometimes, wanting to impress is what keeps us moving when all we really want to do is curl up in a fetal position and whimper.”

— Kelley Armstrong

123. “Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.”

— Kelley Armstrong

124. “Also, the killing of small animals is the entrance ramp onto the serial killer superhighway. Damn. I bet the cat knows that. He picked me because I can’t hurt him, or I’d be fulfilling my biological destiny. So I’m screwed. The cat stays. Unless you’ll kill him... How does fifty bucks sound?”

— Kelley Armstrong

125. “There were women, too. They were a little more what I expected. Tight jeans. Tank tops without bras. Evening makeup at noon. Jersey hair. The general vibe varied from “wouldn’t look out of place on a corner of 47th” to “could work at a really nice strip club.”

— Kelley Armstrong

126. “Philip wooed me with all the patience of someone trying to coax a half-wild animal into the house and, like many a stray, I found myself domesticated before I thought to resist.”

— Kelley Armstrong

127. “Tell me half a cup’s worth of story and we’ll call it a night.”

— Kelley Armstrong

128. “If he knew one thing about life, it was this: look out for yourself. No one else would do it for you. If you were cheated or tricked, it was your own fault, and a lesson best learned before the world devoured you.”

— Kelley Armstrong

129. “Technically, you don’t need the keys. As long as they’re in the car, you can drive it.” He paused. “I probably shouldn’t have told you that.”

— Kelley Armstrong

130. “A girl my age had been murdered in these woods and I’d seen her last terrified moments, watched her bleed to death in this forest. A life like mine had ended here, and it didn’t matter how many times I’d seen deaths in movies, it wasn’t the same, and I wasn’t ever going to forget it.”

— Kelley Armstrong

131. “He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. “Fleas?” I said.”

— Kelley Armstrong

132. “Gabriel Walsh comes from a long line of hustlers. He’s just the first one to go to law school and get a license for it.”

— Kelley Armstrong

133. “If the Romans could have fortified their cities the way the human brain fortifies itself, we’d still be wearing togas. The mind is an amazing piece of biomachinery, really. A serious threat presents itself at the gate and up fly the walls, standing firm in the face of earth-shaking revelations, ideological bullets, and plain old logic.”

— Kelley Armstrong

134. “Mom says crap like that comes from people who’ve accomplished so little in life that they feel the need to lift themselves above someone, anyone. So they pick skin color or religion or sexual orientation and say, “Well, I might not be much, but at least I’m not a... ” I’d look at those guys, and see the truth of her words.”

— Kelley Armstrong

135. “Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn’t wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I’d know he wasn’t a ghost. – Chloe.”

— Kelley Armstrong

136. “What’s that old joke? “A friend helps you move; a real friend helps you move a body.”

— Kelley Armstrong

137. “Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I’d be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge?”

— Kelley Armstrong

138. “A strike within the realm of the professional never justifies retribution in the realm of the personal.”

— Kelley Armstrong

139. “Young writers need to be encouraged to write – just write – with no restrictions on form, style or content.”

— Kelley Armstrong

140. “I could point out that we have a compass, but Anders isn’t just directionally challenged – put a compass in his hand, and it starts spinning, as if his very physiology foils him.”

— Kelley Armstrong

141. “Ghost hunters can be the most ingenious breed when it comes to inventing ghastly tales, but ask them to think up a name for the ghost of a woman dressed in white, and they give you “the White Lady.”

— Kelley Armstrong

142. “He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.”

— Kelley Armstrong

143. “The interior looked like I expected. Two rooms – a main one and a tiny bedroom. Dusty stuffed fish and moth-eaten elk heads on bare walls. A wood plank floor that seemed as if it hadn’t been swept in years. Cobwebs decorating the ceiling. Furniture that would have been rejected by Goodwill. Mouse droppings everywhere. A few dark furry bat forms hung from the upper eaves. In the city, the place would have been condemned as a public health hazard. Here, it was just a typical hunting shack.”

— Kelley Armstrong

144. “Shadowy mystery stalkers? Hidden escape hatches? Creepy subterranean tunnels? My mother tried to get me to take social work for my master’s. I told her it was boring. I was so wrong.”

— Kelley Armstrong

145. “I’d say I needed to find myself, if that didn’t sound like I was heading into the Himalayas, taking only a backpack stuffed with angst and clean underwear.”

— Kelley Armstrong

146. “Yours is more than business. Your opinion of him – and your continuing relationship with him – matters. My nephew is not accustomed to that, and he’s struggling with it.”

— Kelley Armstrong

147. “I suppose infatuation is infatuation at any age, and maybe even worse when you’re old enough to recognize the symptoms, be mortified by your reaction, and still not be able to do anything about it.”

— Kelley Armstrong

148. “Once, when I’d needed to meet Daniel to deliver a warning from Jeremy, I’d worn two-inch heels and had quite enjoyed the sensation of talking down to Daniel, until he told me how sexy I looked. Since then he’d never seen me in anything but my oldest, grubbiest sneakers.”

— Kelley Armstrong

149. “I even pulled out the can of cat treats. Yes, I’d bought him treats. Give it another month and I’d be collecting his shed whiskers and claws like a proud momma preserving her baby’s first haircut and lost teeth.”

— Kelley Armstrong

150. “As a vampire, you must accept that every person you ever know will die, and you are the only constant in your life, the only person you can – and should – rely on.”

— Kelley Armstrong