Vivian Vande Velde Quotes.

1. "Little girls who hang around with vampires need to get used to dead things...In fact, little girls who hang around with vampires already are with dead things."
- Quote by Vivian Vande Velde

2. "Dragons don't ask for maidens, he said. Dragons are offered maidens. Alys shook her head to show she didn't understand. Is a king likely to be a maiden? Or a village headman? It's the men who make the laws that decree that maidens be offered."
- Quote by Vivian Vande Velde

3. "Don't," she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire."
- Quote by Vivian Vande Velde

4. "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."
- Vivian Vande Velde, Heir Apparent

5. "if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off."
- Vivian Vande Velde, Heir Apparent

6. "There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon."
- Vivian Vande Velde, Heir Apparent

7. "Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?"
- Vivian Vande Velde, Heir Apparent

8. "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."
- Vivian Vande Velde, Heir Apparent

9. "And there was this sweet-looking little old lady with her white hair in a bun and everything, the typical grandmother type, and she was swearing her head off. I guess Alzheimer's had brought out her inner sailor."
- Vivian Vande Velde, Remembering Raquel

10. "Still, I said, I am sorry. But I was desperate to rescue my sister. I understand, the sagging dragon assured me. He explained, I, too, had a sister, once. The past tense didn't escape me. What happened to her? I asked, feeling we were connected, two of a kind after all, sharing similar personal tragedies. I had to eat her, the dragon said, to keep her from stealing my gold."
- Vivian Vande Velde, Deadly Pink