Amelie Quotes

• When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Paris, Want, Hats

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• I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Children, Ambitious, Great Things

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• I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Confidence, Grew Up, Right Now

  The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Writing, Needs, Hungry

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• More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Where You Come, Fine, Knows

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• I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

  Amelie Nothomb

  President, Winner, Goddess

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• It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Writing, Views, Point Of View

  "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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• Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

  Amelie Nothomb

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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• When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Vanity, Needs

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• I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Way, Evening, Strange

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• I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin

  Rachel Caine

  Tests, Fields, Chance

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• Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.

  Rachel Caine

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Doubt

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.234, Allison & Busby

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• Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.

  Rachel Caine

  Smell, Choices, Would Be

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• And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.

  Rachel Caine

  Vampire, Trying, Claire

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires”, p.167, Penguin

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• When I want to be lectured on strategy, I'll consult someone who's actually won battles," Amelie said. "Not one who ran away from them." "Snap," Eve said. "You know what they're talking about?" Shane asked. "Don't need to know to get that one. She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.

  Rachel Caine

  Talking, Battle, Needs

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.36, Penguin

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• No way they could threaten him, not even with Amelie; he'd already given Amelie the finger on the way out of Morganville and he clearly wasn’t worried about her coming after him— or, if so, what would happen when she did.

  Rachel Caine

  Way, Worried, Given

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.1996, Penguin

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• Morely: You're trying to make me [i]Amelie[/i] Oliver: Goodness, no. You'd look terrible in a skirt

  Rachel Caine

  Trying, Looks, Skirts

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• Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.

  Rachel Caine

  Speak English, Play, Generations

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.34, Penguin

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• Won? He’s one of them! How exactly is that winning?” Michael shook his head, moved up behind her, and put his hands on her shoulders. He kissed the nape of her neck gently. “I don’t know, Eve. I’m just telling you what I heard. He got some kind of agreement out of the vampires. And it was because Amelie loved him.” “Yeah, loved him enough to kill him and turn him into a bloodsucking fiend,” Eve said grimly. “How sweet. Romance isn’t dead. Oh, wait. It is.

  Rachel Caine

  Sweet, Winning, Agreement

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.146, Penguin

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• Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked up the next part and slotted it in, took the screwdriver from Claire's numbed fingers, and fastened it with a couple of deft, fast movements. "I'll be your hands." She wanted to cry, because it was so sweet, but it wouldn't do any good.

  Rachel Caine

  Sweet, Couple, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.94, Penguin

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• Amelie had on black pants, a black zip-up hoodie, andrunning shoes. So wrong.

  Rachel Caine

  Shoes, Black, Pants

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Carpe Corpus”, p.31, Allison & Busby

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• Amelie said, “I won’t be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals.” She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. “Now defend what is ours, my partner.” He grinned … grinned! … and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked.

  Rachel Caine

  Taken, Hands, Should

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.254, Penguin

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• Anybody else think that was weird?” Shane asked as they got into the car. Eve sent him an exasperated glance; the three of them were, of course, in the backseat. Amelie had the front, with Michael. “Ya think? In general, or in particular?” “Weird that we got through the entire thing, and I didn’t have to hit anybody.” There was a moment of silence. Michael said, as he started the car, “You’re right, Shane. That is strange.

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Car, Silence

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.38, Penguin

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