Quotes from Amanda Stevens

I've always found it better to fly under the radar than into the fray.

Shush... Lest She Awaken.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

There are a lot of hard things in this world," he said. "You don't need to beat yourself up over something that's out of your control.

Did she really think her sojourns back to Adamant were going to finally earn his love and approval? After all these years? That's not why I'm here. She'd come home, because the demons that had to be confronted were here. The evil that had to be vanquished... was right here in this house.

No easy thing, letting go. The pain I carried in my heart was constant and at times served as a comfort and a touchstone

Inside the flames, Reid and I moved together in a dance as old as time.

Leaving the door to the studio open, he hurried up the steps to the kitchen to fix a tray.

Might never know, because she was one of those people who would always be defined by the way others perceived her.

People have the wrong idea about cemeteries. They're built for the living, not the dead. If ghosts do exist, I think they are much more likely to attach themselves to people than places.

It was dark inside that box. Not the blackness of night, but a complete absence of light.

If she'd learned anything about herself over the years it was that self-doubt inevitably led to self-destruction.

human nature is basically the same wherever you go.

Letting go is a very hard thing," he said. "Grief and guilt, even loneliness, can become a comfort. A touchstone. The road behind us, littered as it is with mistakes and heartache, can often be more appealing than the open road in front of us.

It's also been my experience that the people you would least expect of guile and subterfuge are the most adept at hiding their true nature—at least for a while. But it almost always surfaces sooner or later, sometimes violently.

People tend to hold a lot of superstitions when it comes to old graveyards

The hang-up calls both annoyed and unsettled her. There had been a lot of them lately, and when she checked the caller ID, the numbers were all unavailable. Telemarketers, most likely.

Twenty-one hours before Thora's air tube would be removed. How long could she last after that?

she had no intention of exploring an abandoned graveyard alone at night. There was curious and there was stupid.

Not to Houston, anyway. It was hotter than hell in Houston, just like in New Orleans. If I move anywhere, it'll be to someplace with snow, she thought wistfully as sweat trickled down her back.

Let's just say, I embraced my weirdness." He smiled. "Meaning?" "I liked being different.

There are a lot of things in this world to be afraid of, but a dead body isn't one of them.

There was something so primal and hungry about the way he stared down at her..the way their bodies unconsciously strained toward one another as if nothing - not even time, not distance, not even death- could ever keep them apart.

I've heard people say that the hardest thing in the world is to live with someone you don't love. But I've always thought it would be far more difficult to live with someone who doesn't love you.