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In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.
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Joss Whedon
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Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.
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Joss Whedon
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Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.
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Robert E. Howard (The Complete Chronicles of Conan)
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What is a Dark-Hunter? Is it like the Vampire Slayer? (Amanda)
Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my ass. (Kyrian)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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This world is full of dragon-slayers. What we need are a few more people who aren't too proud to listen to a few fish.
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William Ritter (Jackaby (Jackaby, #1))
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He was both the villain and the hero, the monster and the monster-slayer.
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Jennifer L. Armentrout (A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Blood and Ash, #2))
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Spike (to Giles) : Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes β 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?
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Marti Noxon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!
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Mutanat Enemy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Demon slayers take the subway?
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Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
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The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.
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Mutant Enemy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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I sighed and put Slayer between the front seats. "Stay here. Guard the car."
Saiman shut the door. "Is the sword sentient?"
"No. But I like to pretend it is.
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Ilona Andrews (Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, #3))
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They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.
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Brian K. Vaughan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 2: No Future for You)
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Snyder: There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense."
Giles: Well, actually, that would be one of the five.
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Mutant Enemy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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What are you?β he demanded. βA slayer?" I rolled my eyes. βThe name's Val, not Buffy. Do I look like a blond cheerleader with questionable taste in men?
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Parker Blue (Bite Me (Demon Underground, #1))
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Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.
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Heather Brewer (First Kill (The Slayer Chronicles, #1))
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She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.
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George R.R. Martin (A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3))
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He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.
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Joss Whedon
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The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.
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Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 1: The Long Way Home)
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If the apocalypse comes...beep me!
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Joss Whedon
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I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...
I've got a theor-
Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes
They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.
And what's with all the carrots-?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!
...or maybe midgets...
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Joss Whedon
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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.
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Blaise Pascal (PensΓ©es)
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I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.
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Craig Ferguson
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All hail the dragon slayer!" (Bones)
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Jeaniene Frost (At Grave's End (Night Huntress, #3))
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Using supernatural beings to build the perfect weapon? Intriguing idea."
"Not really," I said. "They did it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A sub-par season. I slept through half the episodes.
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Kelley Armstrong (Stolen (Women of the Otherworld, #2))
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Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with. Powerful, all of them. And I'm the guy who fixes the windows.
They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't Chosen, to live so near the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me.
I saw you last night, and I see you working here today. You're not special; you're extraordinary.
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Joss Whedon
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He fought as he wished he had all those years ago, for the chance he had missed. In that moment between storms--when the rain stilled and the winds drew in their breaths to blow--he danced with the slayer of kings, and somehow held his own.
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Brandon Sanderson (Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2))
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Buffy Summers: (to Spike) "I could NEVER be your girl!
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer writers
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What are we going to blow up?"
Morgan sighed happily and slapped joss on the back. " Kid... you just said my seven favorite words.
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Heather Brewer (First Kill (The Slayer Chronicles, #1))
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There's an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I've been thinking about a lot while writing this essay. In it, Buffy sacrifices her own life to save her sister, and right before she does, she tells her sister that the hardest thing to do in the world is to live - ironic words coming from someone about to kill herself for the greater good. As I'm writing this, I just keep thinking that Katniss never gets to sacrifice herself. She doesn't get the heroic death. She survives - and that leaves her doing the hardest thing in the world: living in it once so many of the ones she loves are gone.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy)
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If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .
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Joss Whedon
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Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time didn't mean anything, nothing had form but I was still me, you know? And I was warm and I was loved and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or any of it, really but I think I was in heaven. And now I'm not. I was torn out of there. Pulled out by my friends. Everything here is hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch this is hell. Just getting through the next moment, and the one after that knowing what I've lost...
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Joss Whedon
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Time is what turns kittens into cats.
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Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?
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Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 1: The Long Way Home)
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Courage, however, is the best slayerβcourage which attacks: which slays even death itself, for it says, 'Was that life? Well then! Once more!
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Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
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You are such a chick."
I widened my eyes in mock surprise. "No way. Are you sure?"
Sighing again, he rubbed at the tattoos on his wrist. "Mackenzie was right. You aren't slayer material."
Before he had time to register my intentions, I threw a punch. My sore, swollen knuckles slammed into his cheekbone, thrusting his head to the side. Pain shot up my arm, but I bit my tongue to stop a moan.
"You were saying?"
He popped his jaw, rubbed at the reddening skin-and slowly grinned. "Okay, so now I understand why Cole likes you. You're worse than Kat.
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Gena Showalter (Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles, #1))
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You are talking crazy-person talk. Put your words in word places please.
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Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 4: Time of Your Life)
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You don't need to know my name. You'll forget it soon enough.
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Norihiro Yagi (Claymore, Vol. 1: Silver-eyed Slayer (Claymore, #1))
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I totally kicked Ashman ass over there! I was all like hi-yah and you wanna piece of me? I was a super slayer! Buffyβs got nothing on me.β
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βIt was life and death out there, guys. Life and death. They just kept coming at me and I just kept putting them down β¦ I mean, sure, I screamed like a girl a few times and accidentally stabbed myself at the beginning, but still.
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Chelsea Fine (Avow (The Archers of Avalon, #3))
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Will Carmel eventually forget about this adventurous time with us? Will she shun Thomas and go back to being the center of SWC? She wouldnβt do that, would she? I mean, she did just compare me to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My opinion of her isnβt the highest right now.
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Kendare Blake (Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1))
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In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.
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Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 2: No Future for You)
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What do you put in that coffee? Two teaspoons of bitch powder?
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Zathyn Priest (The Slayer's Apprentice)
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Before we left them, I slanted a glance at Leila, and mischievously said, "No one thought what you just did could be done, you know. You'll earn the nickname of The Dragon Slayer."
Vlad glowered at me, but Bones laughed.
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Jeaniene Frost (Up from the Grave (Night Huntress, #7))
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I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.
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Christopher Golden (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sons of Entropy (The Gatekeeper Trilogy, #3))
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Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work. And-and my job at the magic shop? I was bored to tears even before the hour that wouldn't end. And the only person that I can even stand to be around is a... neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker.
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Joss Whedon
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Let me get this straight...You are sending me out in a minivan whose date of manufacture predates the year of my birth, so that I can watch two dragon slayers track down enormous fire-breathing animals, in an effort to prevent me from spending time in the library?
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E.K. Johnston (Dragon Slayer of Trondheim (The Story of Owen, #1))
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He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books."
~Eternity in Death
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J.D. Robb
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I will go directly to her home, ring the bell, and walk in. Here I am, take me-or stab me to death. Stab the heart, stab the brains, stab the lungs, the kidneys, the viscera, the eyes, the ears. If only one organ be left alive you are doomed-doomed to be mine, forever, in this world and the next and all the worlds to come. I'm a desperado of love, a scalper, a slayer. I'm insatiable. I eat hair, dirty wax, dry blood clots, anything and everything you call yours. Show me your father, with his kites, his race horses, his free passes for the opera: I will eat them all, swallow them alive. Where is the chair you sit in, where is your favorite comb, your toothbrush, your nail file? Trot them out that I may devour them at one gulp. You have a sister more beautiful than yourself, you say. Show her to me-I want to lick the flesh from her bones.
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Henry Miller (Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1))
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To read makes our speaking English good.
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Joss Whedon
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Justice without compassion was the destroyer of morality, a slayer blind to empathy.
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Steven Erikson (Dust of Dreams (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #9))
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Vampire Willow Rosenberg: "In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer writers
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Six a.m.!" Xander cried. "I know that's a number on my clock, but I've never actually been awake to personally witness it!
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Alice Henderson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1 (BTVS Collection, #1))
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A pair of freshmen rushed by our door talking about who would make a better Gallagher Girl: Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Veronica Mars (a debate made much more interesting by the fact it was taking place in Farsi).
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Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2))
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Alright then, let's explain it this way. There are four basic kinds of Daimons or vampires; bloodsuckers, soulsuckers, energy/dreamsuckers, and slayers. (Talon)
You guys are the slayers. (Amanda)
(Hunter snorted)
What? Were you born with a remote in your hand? (Kyrian)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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Tell yourself this: I am a conqueror. I am a detour slayer, and my goals and dreams don't exist in a vacuum. Every bit of my life is preparing me for something better, something greater.
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Keisha Blair (Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness)
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I've lost my mind," Alex muttered, grabbing her knives again and stomping back across the kitchen. "I woke up this morning a boring little chef on planet earth, and somehow ended up in the Twilight Zone as a third-rate stand-in for Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
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Lynsay Sands (Hungry for You (Argeneau, #14))
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Well aren't you full of sunshine and donkey feathers.
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Angie Fox (The Accidental Demon Slayer (Demon Slayer, #1))
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My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this.
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Joss Whedon
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Her strong enchantments failing,
Her towers of fear in wreck,
Her limbecks dried of poisons
And the knife at her neck,
The Queen of air and darkness
Begins to shrill and cry,
`O young man, O my slayer
To-morrow you shall die.'
O Queen of air and darkness
I think 'tis truth you say,
And I shall die to-morrow;
But you shall die to-day.
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A.E. Housman
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Do you love me?
What?
Do you?
I love you. I don't know if I trust you.
Maybe you shouldn't do either.
Maybe I'm the one who should decide!
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Joss Whedon
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Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.
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C.J. Hill (Slayers (Slayers, #1))
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I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
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Joss Whedon
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If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?
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Bryan Davis (Masters & Slayers (Tales of Starlight, #1))
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So let me help you out. My favorite color is-hell, I don't know. I've never cared enough to think about it. My favorite movie is-what else-ZOMBIELAND. But not because the good guys win in the end, though that's a plus, but because Emma Stone is hot."
I snorted. He was SUCH a guy.
"My favorite band is-"
"Let me guess," I interjected. "White Zombie? Slayer?"
"Red. And no, not just because I want zombies to bleed.What about you? Who do you like? Because honestly, I'm surprised you know White Z and Slayer."
"I like Red,too, but I'm partial to Skillet. Used to listen to them with my sister. But why wouldn't I know the other bands?"
"You look so angelic."
"And do you think angels are hot?" I asked primly, trying to play it cool so that I wouldn't reveal what a mess I was on the inside. All this time, he'd wanted to get to know me and date me. What craziness!
"The hottest.
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Gena Showalter (Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles, #1))
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When they got to thew bottom of the stairwell, they stopped dead. Blay's father was facing off with a lesser, a Civil War sword in one hand, a dagger in the other.
Behind his Joe Friday glasses, his eyes were lit like torches, and they flicked over for a split second. "Stay out of this. This one's mine."
The shit was done faster than you can say, Ninja Dad.
Blay's father went Ginsu on the slayer, carving the thing up like a turkey, then stabbing it back to the Omega.
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J.R. Ward (Lover Enshrined (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #6))
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Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it again, counting. Thirty-two times it had fallen Slayer Society up. Twenty-two times it was down.
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Heather Brewer (Eleventh Grade Burns (The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, #4))
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Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.
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Heather Brewer (First Kill (The Slayer Chronicles, #1))
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Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.
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Heather Brewer (First Kill (The Slayer Chronicles, #1))
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Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.
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Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 #3)
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Black suits you," he commented.
"Don't get any ideas, Romeo."
His frown curled into a slow grin, at once mocking and devastatingly handsome. "Ah, Shakespeare. 'How silver sweet lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears.'" He laughed. "Saw the movie, did you?"
"I also saw Buffy the Vampire Slayer," I said. "Guess which one I liked better.
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Cecily White (Prophecy Girl (Angel Academy, #1))
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Life's a show and we all play a part
And when the music starts
We open up our hearts
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Joss Whedon
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But it's daylight," she said at last. "Vampires can't go out in the sun, everyone knows that!"
Bones chuckled. "Right And we shrink back from crosses, can't travel over water, and always get staked in the end by the righteous slayer. Really, who'd be afraid of a creature like that? All you'd need is a Bible, a tanning bed, and some holy water to send us shivering to our dooms.
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Jeaniene Frost (Magic Graves (Night Huntress, #4.5; Kate Daniels, #0.5))
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What is a Dark-Hunter?" she asked. "Is it like Buffy the Vampire Slayer?" He laughed at that. "Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my-
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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What is it with you and the Wizard of Oz references? Zombies and werewolves and vamps, oh my. Zombies and werewolves and...
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Christopher Golden (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Halloween Rain)
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A word of advice, if I may? Explosions are an excellent way to kill the undead. But you should probably take a few steps back first, kid.
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Heather Brewer (First Kill (The Slayer Chronicles, #1))
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Darcy- "What's worse then a pissed of Chuck Norris?"
Pheonix- "What?"
Darcy- "A pissed off witch.
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Jennifer Lyon (Blood Magic (Wing Slayer Hunters, #1))
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Vampire Willow: "Bored now.
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Joss Whedon
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To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.
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Joss Whedon
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Don't say I didn't warn you. One of these days you're going to take in a stray that'll really break your heart.β
~Ed
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Kate Douglas (DemonFire (DemonSlayers, #1))
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The imagination is a weapon. Those who don't use it die first.
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Kumo Kagyu (Goblin Slayer, Vol. 1 (Goblin Slayer Manga, #1))
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To protect the world as we know it, there were three races of hunters created to police and destroy the Daimons. We are called the Pyramid of Protection. Dark-Hunters pursue those who feed on humans, blood, and souls. Dream-Hunters go after the energy- and dreamsuckers, and Were-Hunters stalk the slayers. (Talon)
I guess what I don't understand is why you don't have one group that does it all. (Amanda)
Because we can't. If one person or group was strong enough to walk all four realms of existence, they would be able to enslave the world. Nothing and no one could stop them. And the gods would be greatly pissed. (Kyrian)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter #1))
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Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes.
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Heather Brewer (Second Chance (The Slayer Chronicles, #2))
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Saint George's legend tells of the dangers of mythical creatures and the value of man asserting dominance over them. Manu's tale, quite conversely, stresses the value of mercy, coexistence, and peaceful symbiosis. [...] Marlowe is a good man, but he only knows how to slay dragons. The world is full of dragon-slayers. What we need are a few more people who aren't too proud to listen to a fish.
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William Ritter (Jackaby (Jackaby, #1))
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Listen my hatchling, for now you shall hear
Of the only seven slayers a dragon must fear.
First beware Pride, lest belief in oneβs might
Has you discount the foeman who is braving your sight.
Never Envy other dragons their wealth, power, or home
For dark plots and plans will bring death to your own.
Your Wrath shouldnβt win, when spears strike your scale
Anger kills cunning, which you will need to prevail.
A dragon must rest, but Sloth you should dread
Else long years of napping let assassins to your bed.
βGreed is good,β or so foolish dragons will say
Until piles of treasure bring killing thieves where they lay.
Hungry is your body, and at times you must feed
But Gluttony makes fat dragons, who canβt fly at their need.
A hot Lust for glory, gems, gold, or mates
Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.
So take heed of this wisdom, precious hatchling of mine,
And the long years of dragonhood are sure to be thine.
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E.E. Knight (Dragon Champion (Age of Fire, #1))
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I keep thinking theyβre gonna call me. I keep thinking theyβre gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money with this! And they donβt.
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Joss Whedon
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Anya: I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's- There's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And-and Xander's crying and not talking, and-and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why.
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Joss Whedon
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I need you, Jess, with everything in me I need you, not just now or tonight, but forever. You're my North Star and Safe Harbor and all those other sappy clichés, but above all else, you are my dragon slayer. I need you tonight. I need you in my arms where I can feel your heart beating in time with mine. Just hold me and⦠and let me hold you in return.
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Julieanne Reeves (Razing Kayne (Walking a Thin Blue Line, #1))
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Hello, Kanta. They're saying interesting things about you on the news," she said. "I wondered if you'd survived."
"He didn't," I said. "I killed him."
Silence.
"I killed Mkhai, too," I said. "Tens of thousands of years, gone in the blink of an eye."
"Why are you telling me this?" asked the voice.
"Because you're next," I said. "I'm the demon slayer. Come and get me.
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Dan Wells (Mr. Monster (John Cleaver, #2))
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What, are you like Buffy or something? A vampire slayer?β
I wish. βNo, but my sister is. And my boyfriendβs a vampire so I know a lot about their kind.β
Jayden shrinks back from me, wide-eyed.
βNo, no. Heβs one of the good ones. Not all vampires are evil,β I assure him.
βSoβ¦youβre datingβ¦Edward Cullen.β
βSure, if you have to relate it all to a Stephenie Meyer book,β I grudgingly agree. βBut donβt say that to Magnusβs face. Heβs a card-carrying member of Team Jacob. Even has the T-shirt.
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Mari Mancusi (Bad Blood (Blood Coven Vampire, #4))
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When I was younger, one of my favorite activities was imagining alternative-universe versions of myself. Sometimes I was a rosy-cheeked outdoorsy girl who ate flowers and hiked alone, uphill, for miles. Or I was a skydiving, drag-racing, adrenaline-fueled daredevil. Or a chain mail-wearing, sword swinging dragon slayer. It was fun to imagine those things because I already knew who I was. Now I don't know anything. I don't know who I'm supposed to be in my new world.
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Nicola Yoon (Everything, Everything)
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A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in a language that only they understood. And Joss wasn't sure at all that he would ever understand them.
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Heather Brewer (First Kill (The Slayer Chronicles, #1))
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Why do you write strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
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Joss Whedon
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Xander Harris: "Just when you think you know a guy he robs a mass grave and takes off.
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Diana G. Gallagher (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Obsidian Fate)
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Not that I'm complaining. It was better than my old dream, where Harma Dogshead was feeding me to her pigs."
"Harma's dead." Jon said.
"But not the pigs. They look at me the way Slayer used to look at ham. Not to say that the wildlings mean us harm. Aye, we hacked their gods apart and made them burn the pieces, but we gave them onion soup. What's a god compared to a nice bowl of onion soup? I could do with mine myself.
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George R.R. Martin (A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5))
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You do not comprehend. It is not the victim who concerns me so much. It is the effect on the character of the slayer."
"What about war?"
"In war you do not exercise the right of private judgement. That is what is so dangerous. Once a man is imbued with the idea that he knows who ought to be allowed to live and who ought not - then he is halfway to becoming the most dangerous killer there is - the arrogant killer who kills not for profit - but for an idea. He has usurped the functions of le bon Dieu.
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Agatha Christie (Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15))
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It's not the type of work you can put on a business card.
I sometimes play the game with myself, though. What would I put on a business card?
Jill Kismet, Exorcist. Maybe on a nice heavy cream-colored card stock, with a good font. Not pretentious, just something tasteful. Garamond, maybe, or Book Antiqua. In bold. Or one of those old-fashioned fonts, but no frilly Edwardian script.
Of course, there's slogans to be taken into account. Jill Kismet, Dealer in Dark Things. Spiritual Exterminator. Slayer of Hell's Minions.
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Lilith Saintcrow (Hunter's Prayer (Jill Kismet, #2))
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It was Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the television series, 1997-2003, not the lackluster movie that preceded it) that blazed the trail for Twilight and the slew of other paranormal romance novels that followed, while also shaping the broader urban fantasy field from the late 1990s onward.
Many of you reading this book will be too young to remember when Buffy debuted, so you'll have to trust us when we say that nothing quite like it had existed before. It was thrillingly new to see a young, gutsy, kick-ass female hero, for starters, and one who was no Amazonian Wonder Woman but recognizably ordinary, fussing about her nails, her shoes, and whether she'd make it to her high school prom. Buffy's story contained a heady mix of many genres (fantasy, horror, science-fiction, romance, detective fiction, high school drama), all of it leavened with tongue-in-cheek humor yet underpinned by the serious care with which the Buffy universe had been crafted. Back then, Whedon's dizzying genre hopping was a radical departure from the norm-whereas today, post-Buffy, no one blinks an eye as writers of urban fantasy leap across genre boundaries with abandon, penning tender romances featuring werewolves and demons, hard-boiled detective novels with fairies, and vampires-in-modern-life sagas that can crop up darn near anywhere: on the horror shelves, the SF shelves, the mystery shelves, the romance shelves.
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Ellen Datlow (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
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There was this other apocalypse this one time. And, well, I took off. But this time, I don't... I don't know."
"Well, what's different?"
"Well, I guess I was kinda new to being around humans before. And now I've seen a lot more, gotten to know people, seen what they're capable of and I guess I just realize how amazingly... screwed up they all are. I mean, really, really screwed up in a monumental fashion."
"Oh."
"And they have no purpose that unites them, so they just drift around, blundering through life until they die. Which they-they know is coming, yet every single one of them is surprised when it happens to them. They're incapable of thinking about what they want beyond the moment. They kill each other, which is clearly insane, and yet, here's the thing. When it's something that really matters, they fight. I mean, they're lame morons for fighting. But they do. They never... They never quit. And so I guess I will keep fighting, too.
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Joss Whedon
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Curran strode toward me, eyes blazing. "If I let her go, I'll need a replacement. Want to volunteer for the job."
He looked like he wouldn't be taking no for an anser. I swiped Slayer from its sheath and backed away from the edge of the roof. "And be girlfriend number twenty-three soon to be dumped in favor of girlfriend number twenty-four who has slightly bigger boobs? I don't think so."
He kept coming. "Oh Yeah?"
"Yeah, you get these beautiful women, make them dependent on you, and then you dump them. Well, this time a woman left you first, and your enormous ego can't deal with it. And to think that I hoped we could talk like reasonable adults. If we were the last two people on Earth, I'd find myself a moving island so I could get the hell away from you.
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Ilona Andrews
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When will it begin, anyway?"
Sirus held his gaze for a moment, his eyes full of concern- a concern that Joss didn't understand.
"Probably sooner than you're ready for."
"When's that?"
"Well." Sirus sighed, as if doing the math in his head."It'll take us about three minutes to gather this stuff and get to the cabin, and another two or three for Abraham to realize you're here. So I'd say you have about seven more minutes of freedom left.
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Heather Brewer (First Kill (The Slayer Chronicles, #1))
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Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? Itβs not like in the comicsβ¦I think you need to. Feel itβ¦Itβs not going to make a neat little hole. First - itβll obliterate your internal organs. Your lung will collapse, feels like drowningβ¦When it finally hits your spine, itβll blow your central nervous system-β¦Iβm talking. The pain will be unbearable, but you wonβt be able to moveβ¦ A bullet usually travels faster than this, of course. But the dying? It seems like it takes forever. Something, isnβt it? One tiny piece of metal destroys everything. It ripped her insides outβ¦ It took her light away. From me. From the worldβ¦ And now the one person who should be here is gone - and a waste like you gets to live. A tiny piece of metal. Can you feel it now?
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