Caitlin Kittredge Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't even a dream, because dreams come from a person's brain and I knew deep down that this one came directly from my madness. — Caitlin Kittredge

I am alone. Alone except for the sirens, alone except for the burning, empty city on the edge of a rotting, pollutedriver green with algae, host to rubber-skinned, gibbous-eyed things with mouths large enough to swallow me whole andprotruding stomachs ready to digest me. — Caitlin Kittredge

You're a monster that mothers threaten children with and you're still touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress. — Caitlin Kittredge

My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year. It was in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We backed up to a state forest. So absolutely, there were creepy woods all around the house. It was easy to get lost. It was really spooky. — Caitlin Kittredge

He's no kind of gentleman.
That's all right. I'm no kind of lady. — Caitlin Kittredge

Considering it was my father's house, I thought it was very much my beeswax, but I wasn't about to argue with a stranger hiding in a kitchen, pelting me with footwear. — Caitlin Kittredge

A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing. — Caitlin Kittredge

Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it, loss as singularity, or until the empty place expanded and hollowed out the rest of you so thoroughly you became the walking dead, a ghost in your own life. — Caitlin Kittredge

I don't care about lasting. I just want right now. — Caitlin Kittredge

Working with civilians, like this was that TV show about the wizard with the talking skull and the twatty name. — Caitlin Kittredge

You smell pretty tasty.
Just what every girl wants to hear. — Caitlin Kittredge

In a platonic and boring fashion, is it all right if I share your fire until me clothes dry out? I have a feeling if I fall asleep damp I'll wake up with some horrid Victorian disease. — Caitlin Kittredge

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material. — Caitlin Kittredge

I breathed in for a moment, letting his scent of leather and cigarettes and boy calm my ragged breathing. — Caitlin Kittredge

Brothers didn't make life easier, not even the jinxed sort of life we'd found ourselves in, I decided. They were tailored by evolution to be annoying. — Caitlin Kittredge

Pain was tertiary. I could feel it later, for any length of time it desired. — Caitlin Kittredge

...I wondered if I'd ever stop feeling fragile... — Caitlin Kittredge

I'll be back before I have to meet the Headmaster about me going mad and killing people on my birthday, I swear. — Caitlin Kittredge

Do you know who I am, you sodding barn animal?" he hissed. The publican gurgled. "I'm Jack fucking Winter." Jack said, releasing him with a push that rattled clean glasses on the bar back. — Caitlin Kittredge

Something breaks under my boot, and I know before I look down what I'll see. Bones. Human skulls, femurs, ribs. The bones of otherthings as well, things that starved once the humans rotted away. Twisted spines, elongated jaws. Teeth. — Caitlin Kittredge

You're in my blood like poison. And I'd die because of you. — Caitlin Kittredge

Regardless of the shape he took, Cal had a nearly endless capacity for worrywarting. — Caitlin Kittredge

A lot of times with novels, you can get a really deep, engaging story, but there's not a lot happening, frankly. Those books tend to be super-literary and dense, and they require a lot of commitment, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want fast-moving action and gore and plot and excitement, you can get shorted on that. — Caitlin Kittredge

I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.' — Caitlin Kittredge

When a court officer suggested quarantine for Nerissa, she grabbed the man's pen and jammed it into the back of his hand, screaming that he was a Crimson Guard witch come to remove her memories and replace them with bird-song.
They decided to skip quarantine after that. — Caitlin Kittredge

I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there. — Caitlin Kittredge

Crows don't take from you," Dean said. "They give your soul wings. — Caitlin Kittredge

Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness. — Caitlin Kittredge

I fear, in my dark hours, that it hungers for me and that it is only a matter of time before it eats its full of my sanity. — Caitlin Kittredge

I'm extremely superstitious. — Caitlin Kittredge

There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another. — Caitlin Kittredge

How can you be dour when you have a tiny duck? — Caitlin Kittredge

Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit. — Caitlin Kittredge

Mr. Darcy is a construct designed to make woman feel bad about the partners that they're capable of attracting versus the fantasized image he presents. — Caitlin Kittredge

I read a lot of detective novels. — Caitlin Kittredge

You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces.
I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got. — Caitlin Kittredge

Didn't know she was spoken for."
"You do now", Jack snarled. "And the next time you try to pass off your bloody Fae nectar on a human, I'll shove your little horned head up your arse and hold it there until you stop twitching. — Caitlin Kittredge

There are seventeen madhouses in the city of Lovecraft. I've visited all of them. — Caitlin Kittredge

I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology. — Caitlin Kittredge

Impossible just means they ain't thought of a name for it yet ... — Caitlin Kittredge

Pete squeezed Jack's hand, hard as she could. "You're not alone," she told him. "If you've made up your mind to die, then I'll be with you here, until the end. I'd follow you into death if that's what you asked, Jack. Heaven, Hell. Anywhere at all. — Caitlin Kittredge