Top 90 Lilith Saintcrow Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

2. “I’m getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

3. “He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

4. “What you can’t run away from, you have to face.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

5. “I was feeling safe. Not the kind of safe where you know there are still bad things howling outside the door waiting to get in. No, it was the kind of safe where you sink down in your bed at the end of the day and know you can go to sleep and everything is going to be the same tomorrow.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

6. “Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

7. “Fury is the best fuel of all. It is so clean, so marvelous, so ruthless. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, rage against evil is better than sorrow. Sorrow can’t balance the scales.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

8. “No matter how much time goes by, missing someone never gets any better. You just learn to work around it.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

9. “It’s always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time – literally years, in the case of a series – inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

10. “People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots. They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don’t live up to their snap judgments.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

11. “Death did not play favorites – He loved all equally. What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure. The god’s voice – not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind –.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

12. “No problem, Goth Boy. First one’s free.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

13. “Still, even idiots get lucky sometimes. I felt lucky tonight. Or maybe just reckless.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

14. “What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

15. “His shoulder bumped mine again. “Can I ask you something?” I didn’t answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don’t say that if they don’t want to pry something out of you.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

16. “I don’t even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like – well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

17. “There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I’d given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

18. “That’s the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

19. “I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

20. “Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

21. “He was the only boy I’d found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he’d been bitten by a werwulf he’d been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

22. “Graves: It’s going to snow. Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning. Graves: Hey, no problem. First one’s free.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

23. “God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution – to just not relax – was kind of sucking.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

24. “Dryads gathered in knots, hushed, and for once satyrs did not chase them but stood solitary sentinel, horned heads upflung and broad nostrils quivering. Kelpies and selkies hesitated, between horseform and biped shape, their wicked teeth gleaming as they snorted and stamped; among them, night-mares or elfhorses along the shores of the Dreaming Sea – which touches all shores, always – tossed their manes but did not neigh.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

25. “His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

26. “You can’t ever stop thinking something quick enough. Something that hurts always gets the knife in too fast for you to slam a lid on it and shove it away.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

27. “You learn to have a high weirdness tolerance as a witch.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

28. “Richelle Mead delivers sexy action and tongue-in-cheek hellish humor-if damnation is this fun, sign me up!”

— Lilith Saintcrow

29. “Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?”

— Lilith Saintcrow

30. “Sometimes you meet a girl and it’s like matter and antimatter. You just hate each other for no damn reason.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

31. “They all looked like a shampoo commercial, healthy and clear-skinned, perfectly proportioned, a group of handsome young men. Their clothes hung on them like they were glad to be gracing such supermodels.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

32. “What do you say when someone takes on a really bad ass, murdering sucker for you? There just aren’t words for that.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

33. “Boys always get the best eyelashes; it’s like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

34. “Goddamn. Well, let’s call that an experiment and chalk it up to experience. All hail Jill Kismet the scientist.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

35. “Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

36. “I guess since the groin is the center of a guy’s world, he rarely guesses it isn’t the center of yours.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

37. “Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

38. “The smell of apple pies didn’t quite fill the house, but it was there, a thread under everything else. It was kind of hard to take Christophe seriously when he smelled like baked goods. I wondered if other djampjir smelled like Hostess Twinkies and sniggered to myself.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

39. “Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?”

— Lilith Saintcrow

40. “The end of a gun looks very big and very back when it’s staring you in the face.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

41. “If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

42. “Watch the death of your enemy if you can, for you have caused it. When you have killed, watch the consequences of your actions.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

43. “It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

44. “Poisonsellers and lightfingers chanted in shadowy corners, mostly outcast drow and trow, their dark-adapted eyes luminous. The perfume of sidhe from either Court and the Free Counties as well crept into the blood and breath, a subtle exhilaration. The Enforcers, their black leather masks and long black coats functional instead of decorative, were not often seen – but they were about. The.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

45. “Are you listening, little bird?”

— Lilith Saintcrow

46. “Graves: Are you skipping? Off to a good start. Dru Anderson: I don’t want to deal with it today. Graves: Okay. I know a place to go. You shoot pool? I’m Graves. Dru Anderson: I know. Dru. Graves: Dru. You’re new. Couple of weeks, right? Welcome to Foley.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

47. “The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

48. “Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you’d end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That’s how these things always end up, isn’t it?”

— Lilith Saintcrow

49. “I wasn’t sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

50. “Some of the djamphir are so pretty it almost hurts to look at them. And it was hard to look without feeling rumpled and messy in comparison.”

— Lilith Saintcrow