Top 200 Kelley Armstrong Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Gabriel might always have his own best interests at heart, but he expects everyone else to do the same for themselves. To him, we are all the center of our own universes.”

— Kelley Armstrong

152. “He balled up my discarded sweatshirt and put it against his shoulder. “Go on,” he said. “I don’t bite.” “And from what I hear, that’s a good thing.” He gave a rumbling chuckle. “Yeah, it is.” I leaned against his shoulder.”

— Kelley Armstrong

153. “It did not matter whether he thought she was in mortal danger or simply falling, certain to survive. She fell and he followed...”

— Kelley Armstrong

154. “The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil’s spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but not by much.”

— Kelley Armstrong

155. “Your one and possibly only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you’ll ask, ‘Why are bats furry?”

— Kelley Armstrong

156. “Nothing says ‘I love you’ like ‘I tracked down this guy for you to kill.”

— Kelley Armstrong

157. “A suitably sultry voice answered his office phone. I gave my name, and she checked to see if Mr. Walsh was in. Given that Grace said he was the only lawyer at his firm, one wouldn’t think she’d need to check.”

— Kelley Armstrong

158. “In Cainsville, town elders still hold power. They’ll protect you.”

— Kelley Armstrong

159. “I shook my head. “Calling my boyfriend.” “You need a guy to come rescue you?” I waggled my gun. “I have that part covered, but given the situation, I’m going to let someone know where I am. I’m a feminist; I’m not an idiot.”

— Kelley Armstrong

160. “What’s next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.”

— Kelley Armstrong

161. “His cheek twitched. With Jeremy, this was the equivalent of an emotional outburst.”

— Kelley Armstrong

162. “Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me half naked and bleeding in the car, and Cain unconscious in the trunk. No wonder I was anxious to get back to Toronto. Spend too much time around these guys and you become a little too nonchalent about blood-soaked clothes and bodies in the trunk.”

— Kelley Armstrong

163. “Demon possession strains the boundaries of credulity, given the sheer number of times it seems to happen. One would really hope demons had better things to do with their time.”

— Kelley Armstrong

164. “They found me at the kitchen table. Derek said, “There’s something we need to tell you,” and from the look on Andrew’s face, I think he expected Derek to say he’d gotten me pregnant.”

— Kelley Armstrong

165. “It looked like I was the dead itself, and that isn’t something someone should aspire to look like.”

— Kelley Armstrong

166. “I’m presuming, though, that breaking and entering isn’t your intent, unless you bring a lawyer in tow, should you be caught.” He pursed his lips. “That could be convenient.”

— Kelley Armstrong

167. “Yes, you’re sleeping in my apartment,” I said. “On my sofa. It was an exciting night, but not that exciting. I’d really hope you’d remember if it had been.”

— Kelley Armstrong

168. “I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that’s just one kind of open-mindedness. There’s another kind, too, the kind that’s willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them.”

— Kelley Armstrong

169. “Cwn Annwn,” I said. “I think I’m finally pronouncing that right. Welsh. So many letters. So few vowels.”

— Kelley Armstrong

170. “He emphasized murderous as if clarifying that he’d certainly believed me capable of making enemies, just not to that degree. I could have taken offense at that, but in Gabriel’s world, if you aren’t making the occasional enemy, you aren’t trying hard enough.”

— Kelley Armstrong

171. “As they neared the spot from which the noise had come, Moria saw a hand lying on the pathway. It appeared to be attached to a body, which was a relief. Again, these days, one could not guarantee such a thing.”

— Kelley Armstrong

172. “Mmm, not sure I’d call Paige. Remember what you tried to do when you were possessed?” “That was not me. And don’t remind me. I’m still creeped out.”

— Kelley Armstrong

173. “Schizo. It didn’t matter how many times Dr. Gill compared it to a disease or physical disability, it wasn’t the same thing. It just wasn’t. I had schizophrenia. If I saw two guys on the sidewalk, one in a wheelchair and one talking talking to himself, which would I rush to open a door for, and which would I cross the road to avoid?”

— Kelley Armstrong

174. “I find fairies with cell phones disconcerting enough. Do they really need to use text talk?”

— Kelley Armstrong

175. “One life per year. It seemed so moderate a price... until you looked back and realized you could fill a movie theater with your victims.”

— Kelley Armstrong

176. “I must have been sound asleep if i missed all that shouting-Simon What shouting?-Derek you mean that Chole just told you she followed a ghost onto a roof, and you didnt blast her all the way to Canada?-Simon He’s a little off this morning-Chole More than a little i’ll say.-Simon.”

— Kelley Armstrong

177. “I’d seriously contemplated a real collar – a sparkly green one – if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity.”

— Kelley Armstrong

178. “Do you really think he untied you?... He was just checking his kids handiwork.”

— Kelley Armstrong

179. “Well, either you have a compartment under this floor, containing a living person, or the property is infested by giant moles.”

— Kelley Armstrong

180. “The hounds will come to Cainsville and when they do, you’ll wish you made a very different choice today.”

— Kelley Armstrong

181. “Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. – Karl.”

— Kelley Armstrong

182. “Still, I shouldered part of the blame, maybe because it gave me some sense of control in an uncontrollable situation.”

— Kelley Armstrong

183. “I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.”

— Kelley Armstrong

184. “It wasn’t until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.”

— Kelley Armstrong

185. “All I could think about was him, and how much I wanted this, and how incredibly lucky I was to get it, and how tight I was going to hold onto it.”

— Kelley Armstrong

186. “And they certainly wouldn’t take you along to a murder. That would be irresponsible parenting.”

— Kelley Armstrong

187. “This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn’t care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.”

— Kelley Armstrong

188. “Wish all my corpses would do that.”

— Kelley Armstrong

189. “Don’t grumble,” I said. “Or I’ll bake you more cookies.”

— Kelley Armstrong

190. “If the Romans could have fortified their cities the way the human brain fortifies itself, we’d still be wearing togas.”

— Kelley Armstrong

191. “I’ve got a dad thanks. Your just the jerk who knocked up my mum and left her to figure out what to do with a son who likes setting things on fire.” – Adam Vasic.”

— Kelley Armstrong

192. “I’m not a shrink. Never been to one. Shot a couple. Don’t think that counts.”

— Kelley Armstrong

193. “Only humans kill for sport.”

— Kelley Armstrong

194. “The far wall was covered with pictures of me – a montage of photographs and sketches that reminded me of the “altars” found in the homes of obsessed psychopaths, which, all things considered, wasn’t such a bad description of Clay.”

— Kelley Armstrong

195. “Angst. Fear. Stark, gut-twisting terror. It didn’t make for an easy sleep.”

— Kelley Armstrong

196. “There’s one you don’t see in the movies. Nothing says ‘I love you’ like ‘I tracked down this guy for you to kill.”

— Kelley Armstrong

197. “His lips pressed against mine, then parted. And he kissed me. Really kissed me – arms tightening around me, mouth moving against mine, firm, like he’d made up his mind that this was what he wanted and he wasn’t backing down again.”

— Kelley Armstrong

198. “I might be half Derek’s size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.”

— Kelley Armstrong

199. “Moria would storm out against their wishes. Yet Ashyn was coming to accept that she could not be her sister, and it was not a failure of nerve. It was a difference of inner composition. They might look identical without; they were not identical within.”

— Kelley Armstrong

200. “The sense that the only thing better than being alone would be to be with someone who made you feel as safe and comfortable as you did when you were alone. He rose on his elbow to look down at Olivia.”

— Kelley Armstrong