Vivian Vande Velde Quotes

• Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Writing, Character, Numbers

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• Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.

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  Morning, Crow, Roosters

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• She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi—much less try to develop a meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.

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  Girl, Meaningful, Running

  Vivian Vande Velde (2002). “Heir Apparent”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.

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  Country, Air, People

  Vivian Vande Velde (2003). “Being Dead”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you don't like vampire games, don't play

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  Games, Play, Vampire

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• if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

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  Saint, Ifs

  Vivian Vande Velde (2004). “Heir Apparent”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

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  Brother, Said, Grimm

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• Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

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  Mother, Children, Able

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• The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

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  Pigs, Doors, Cottages

  Vivian Vande Velde (2010). “Cloaked in Red”, p.104, Marshall Cavendish

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• They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.

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  Fun, Safe Return, Body

  Vivian Vande Velde (2002). “Heir Apparent”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?

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  Smack

  Vivian Vande Velde (2004). “Heir Apparent”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.

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  Dragons, Barbarians, Enough

  Vivian Vande Velde (2002). “Heir Apparent”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Evil, Vampire, Trying

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