Цитаты из книги Sunshine

– Нас нелегко удивить, – пояснил он. – Этим утром ты меня удивила. Таким образом, на какое-то время я полностью исчерпал свой запас потрясений и испугов. Я уставилась на него: – Ты пошутил? – Я слышал, такое случается с вампирами, которые долго общаются с людьми

The big difference between my mom and me—besides the fact that she is dead normal and I’m a magic-handling freak—is that she’s the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people’s points of view, but she’s honest about it. She’s a brass-bound bitch because she believes she knows best. I’m a brass-bound bitch because I don’t want anyone getting close enough to find out what a whiny little knot of naked nerve endings I really am.

I never heard them coming. Of course you don’t, when they’re vampires.

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task.

“I don’t believe in fate,” she said at last. “But I do believe in…loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents—happy or otherwise—and taking advantage of these.”

I hadn’t thought of evil as being without color but it is. Once you get past plain everyday wickedness, the color is squeezed right out of it. Evil is a kind of oblivion, having destroyed everything on its way there.

Иногда лучше не иметь учителя вообще, чем иметь учителя, с которым ты не согласен.

Monday evening is our movie evening because we are celebrating having lived through another week.

Люди, которые постоянно говорят о своих переживаниях и хотят услышать о моих, сводят меня с ума.

I would think about how to thank her for my very well embedded normalcy later. It might be difficult to choose between cyanide and garrotting.

I wondered dispassionately if I might be getting a sunburn, but I rarely burned anyway, and the idea in the present state of affairs, like worrying about a hangnail while you are being chased by an axe murderer, seemed so ludicrous I couldn’t be bothered.

Never mind. Let’s leave it that vampires infesting your private spaces are daunting, and one of the ways to stiffen—er—boost morale is to wear carefully-selected-for-the-occasion morale-boosting clothing.

Это была глупость – но, казалось, эту глупость можно себе позволить.

Vampires can see in the dark and they don`t cook their food, but they seem to like playing with fire, maybe the way some humans get off on joyriding stolen cars, or playing last-across on a busy railtrack.

I loved every one of these people. And I couldn`t take another minute of their company.

The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

Если ежедневно копить на кого-то злобу, эта злоба утрачивает цвет.