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Lisa Jane Smith is an American author of young adult fiction best known for her best-selling series The Vampire Diaries, which has been turned into a successful television show. Her books, particularly The Vampire Diaries and Night World, have been in the New York Times Best Seller list and have been nominated for five awards. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. September 1965  •  Other names ال. جی. اسمیت, L. J. 史密斯
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L.J. Smith Quotes

“Sheriff Mossberg was one of those people who never stop speaking until
they are finished, so by this time he was saying: “Do you understand
these rights?”
“No, sir! Mi ne komprenas Dumbtalk!”

L.J. Smith

Source: Shadow Souls

“Love is for weak people, it's a delusion and it can be deadly.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Black Dawn

“You turned your back on me when I needed you.”

L.J. Smith

Source: The Awakening / The Struggle

“And it was good just to hold her and touch the softness of her skin. He wanted to hold her hard, not to hurt her but to keep her safe, to show her that he was strong enough to protect her. Her beauty was like fire and strange music, and he loved her.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Dark Visions

“Okay, so she is crazy. I don’t care. I think I love her.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Night World, No. 1

“It did cross our minds at one point. Actually it seemed to keep crossing them. Maybe we should put in a crosswalk.
Ash”

L.J. Smith

Source: Night World, No. 1

“Things that really, really hurt are the right things to do.”

L.J. Smith

“Cliff said "damn" for me (I'm going to die). I didn't know he liked me enough to swear.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Night World, No. 1

“War and hunting and chasing-that's all there is. That's life, Jenny-no one can escape it.”

L.J. Smith

Source: The Chase

“You can't just go out-
No, I'll dream another dream.”

L.J. Smith

Source: The Kill

“She stood slim and proud as some medieval witch princess against dawn.”

L.J. Smith

Source: The Passion

“She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance. Poppy-and-James.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Night World, No. 1

“en garde, Julian. It's not over till it's over.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“Amazing how he could make her feel. Safe in a vacant lot, warm in the middle of the night. Just being this close to him, being able to touch his thoughts and feel his presence, was comforting-and dizzying.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Dark Visions

“Julian: What's black inside, white outside, and hot?
Jenny: What?
Julian: A wolf in sheep's clothing.
Jenny: Is that what you are?
Julian: Me? No, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“He looked at her then, and she could see he wasn't afraid.
"Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten," he said.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“Poppy had known for years that she was going to marry him. It was one of her two great ambitions, the other being to see the world. She just hadn't gotten around to informing James yet.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Secret Vampire

“You don't need right - if you have strength”

L.J. Smith

“Rumors spread fast, and they grow. I know. You want to either deny them, or disarm them”

L.J. Smith

Source: Night World, No. 2

“Look, I'll fight, too. What do you think it is? Bear, coyote…?"
"My brother."
"Your…" Dismay pooled in Mark. She'd just stepped over the line of acceptable craziness. "Oh.”

L.J. Smith book Daughters of Darkness

Source: Daughters of Darkness

“Our life is one, big proverbial coin toss.”

L.J. Smith

“Don't worry about it, Mikey," Dee said comfortingly. "You'll probably be next, so you won't be here when our Great Deception comes crashing down.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“They weren’t a centuries old hunter and a seventeen year old girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Bonnie and Damon.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Dark Reunion

“If, someday, Julian should be reborn, she wished him well.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“You've changed me, she thought. Not just showing me that boys aren't all pond scum. You've made me different, made me look at the broader picture. Given me vision.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Dark Visions

“He had been so many things. Seductive as silver and deadly as a cobra. And vulnerable like a hurt child underneath it all.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“You won't find Earth people, quite the easy mark you imagine”

L.J. Smith

Source: Secret Vampire

“Remember, no matter how dark the night, there is always a happy ending. But first, you have to make it through the night.”

L.J. Smith

“Jenny looked up quickly. "Do you believe in good and evil?"
"Oh, yes. Very strongly. And I believe that evil sometimes has to be fought—personally. Hand to hand. If you care enough to do it.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“If you can find one good thing to say about her I'll turn vegetarian!”

L.J. Smith

Source: The Night of the Solstice

“You see how it is with us? You can't fight it any more than I can. You've tried; you've done everything you can to kill it. But you can't kill my love for you.”

L.J. Smith

Source: The Chase

“I can awaken things inside you that have been sleeping all your life. You're strong enough to live in the dark, to glory in it. You can become a queen of the shadows. Why not take that power, Elena? Let me help you take it.”

L.J. Smith

Source: The Awakening / The Struggle

“I am what I want to be," he said. "You forgot that— and that was your mistake.”

L.J. Smith

Source: The Kill

“I don't think you understand," he said. "I'm going to have you, at any cost. Any cost, Jenny, even if you have to suffer on the way. If I can't force you, I'll persuade you— and I can be very persuasive.”

L.J. Smith

Source: The Hunter

“But Thierry was shaking his head. "It doesn't matter." His voice was still quiet, but it was filled with the authority of absolute conviction, a kind of bedrock certainty that held even Hannah mesmerized.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Night World, No. 2

“I'll fight dragons, just like any knight for his lady. I'll prove myself. You'll be proud of me.”

L.J. Smith

Variant: And in the mean time I'll fight dragons, just like any knight for his lady.
Source: Night World, No. 1

“Wings of PURIFICATION”

L.J. Smith

Source: Nightfall

“After a minute he said, "It's like-I don't know how to describe it, but it's like I belong with Jade. She really sees me. I mean, not the outside stuff. She sees me inside, and she likes me. Nobody else has ever done that…except you.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Night World, No. 1

“But where Katherine was a white kitten, Elena was a white tigress.”

L.J. Smith

Source: The Awakening

“Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.”

L.J. Smith

Source: The Awakening

“There was a silence. Hannah's own heart was twisted with the force of her love for him. Her eyes were full.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Night World, No. 2

“Lewis: "Oh, no."
Kaitlyn: "Lewis?"
Lewis: "Hi, Kaitlyn. Hi. Rob."
Rob: "G'way, Lewis. I'm sleeping."
Kaitlyn: "Hi. Anna."
Anna: "Hi, Kait."
Lewis: "Hi, Anna."
Gabriel: "And good night, John-Boy! Shut the hell up, all of you!”

L.J. Smith

Source: The Strange Power

“Yes she met with a slight accident involving a stake." Ash said "funny how that happens sometimes…”

L.J. Smith

Source: Night World, No. 1

“The worms were beautifully drawn, with their nervous systems and reproductive organs shaded in different colors of highlighter, but the artist had also given them big goofy smiling faces. Grotesque but lovable in a cross-eyed way.”

L.J. Smith

Source: Night World, No. 1

“Listen to me, Jez. There's no reason for you to die-"
Wood… poison."
No it isn't! Not to humans. And you're half human. You're vampire enough to survie something that would kill a human, but you're human enough not to be poisoned by wood.”

L.J. Smith