Banshees Quotes

• Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.

  Lucy Christopher

  Dark, Far Away, Made

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.195, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.

  Raymond Chandler

  Foam, Tonight, Calling

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.464, Modern Library

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• She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about to be dead, I didn’t know, but the idea completely grossed me out. “In the womb I heard you die, for no one lives when a banshee cries.” I wasn’t just going to die. I was going to be rhymed to death. That simply wasn’t fair.

  C.E. Murphy

  Hair, Ideas, Ears

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• If she were going to die, I'd already be screaming. I'm a female bean sidhe. That's what we do.

  Rachel Vincent

  Dies, Ifs

  "My Soul to Save (Soul Screamers Book 2)". Book by Rachel Vincent, December 29, 2009.

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• You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.

  Ari Marmell

  Soul, Tunes, Enough

  Ari Marmell (2017). “The Conqueror's Shadow”, p.76, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Nature, Heart, Sky

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.130, Macmillan

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• For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Couple, Months

  "Ayelet, Unfiltered / Berkeley writer Ayelet Waldman's bald honesty about putting her husband first made her a magnet for controversy. Would she take any of it back?" by Katherine Seligman, www.sfgate.com. July 24, 2005.

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• There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

  Simon R. Green

  Numbers, Singing, Female

  Simon R. Green (2004). “Nightingale's Lament”, p.58, Penguin

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• Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.

  George Takei

  Cat, Winning, Trying

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• I love the old stuff that's why I included it. I did see them play a lot as they supported the Banshees all the time. And I was a friend of the Banshees so I used to get there early to see the Ants and while the Banshees were on I used to like to go in their dressing room and steal their booze!

  Marco Pirroni

  Play, Stuff, Rooms

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• When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Typewriters, Doors

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• If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Couple, Months, Loud

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• It's always the last one because it's so present in your body. I liked Scream of the Banshee because it was a real challenge. I thought, "How am I going to pull off this character?" But, I also thought, "Oh, man, I'm going to go for it." He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  Lance Henriksen

  Real, Character, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans with very high heels. Siouxsie and the Banshees had a lot to answer for. I was in a top hat with peacock feathers and thigh-high black boots. I was 17 -- old enough to know better.

  Helen McCrory

  Growing Up, Hair, High Heels

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• Jenks kept me alive for two years through two death threats, a crazy banshee, and at least two serial killers. Its about time I return the favor! And if I can't, then I can sit by his bed and hold his hand as he dies, 'cause I've had plenty of practice doing that, too!

  Kim Harrison

  Crazy, Hands, Years

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• She unwrapped the blanket when she came in my door. You were inside it. She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cat's tail—you screamed like a banshee when the cat scratched you, so I asked your mother if you were part banshee. She didn't laugh.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Cat, Doors

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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