62 Quotes by Cherie Priest

He stayed close, and he stayed quiet. It was easy to do, almost; the silence above was so alarmingly complete that it was easier to keep it than to break it.

You can learn a lot about someone by his teeth. Or her teeth. Especially vampires. For some of us, hygiene goes out the window when our body temperature drops. We might not need much in the way of deodorant, but I swear – a little Listerine never hurt anybody.

Even down here, money has plenty to say.

Barringtons aren’t local by origin. They’re carpetbaggers from Philadelphia – an offshoot of a House that had grown too big to govern. Or more to the point, it’d grown too big for everyone to successfully get along without a whole lot of murdering going on.

Sure he’s dead, and it’s a good thing for us. It’s hard to argue with a dead man. A dead man can’t change his mind or make new rules, or behave like a bastard so no one will listen to him anymore. A dead man stays a saint.

Father, forgive me – for I know precisely what I’m doing.

She was a decent storyteller, but a crap liar, for all the sense that made.

I guess because, well, just because it was able to evolve. When it couldn’t be one thing anymore, it became something else and kept on living that way.