Quotes about vane

A collection of quotes on the topic of vane, love, doing, fang.

Quotes about vane

“Fang laughed as he shoved Vane away 'Man, quit hugging on me. You are a perv." Vane punched him in the arm. "You're such an a**hole,"
Trace gasped. "Daddy said a bad word!"
Fang said "You tell him pup. Keep your daddy straight.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

“His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Love, Passion, Madness

“So who was she? (Vane)
Why do you assume it was a female? (Fang)
Didn’t know you were fond of men. I’ll file that under my special Fang folder. (Vane)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

Men

“I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it.
-Vane”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

Love, Way, Thinking, Heart

“Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked.
"Potatoes," Vane told him.
"What did they do to them?”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

“Well", Fang said, mimicking a thick Southern drawl. "I must say its mighty nice of them Daimons to clean up after themselves when you kill them" He held his hands up to them. "Look Ma, no mess."

"Does Fang have an off switch?" Talon asked Vane.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon)
Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“He’s stronger than this. He’s always been stronger… (Vane)
Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

“And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you — I am at rest with you — I have come home. - Lord Peter Wimsey to Harriet Vane, now his wife”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Busman's Honeymoon

Busman's Honeymoon (1937)

Love, Home

“Harry Vane, Pulteney's toad-eater.”

Horace Walpole (1717–1797) English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician

Letter to Sir Horace Mann (1742)

“I that in heill wes and gladness,
Am trublit now with gret seiknes,
And feblit with infermité;
Timor mortis conturbat me.

Our plesance heir is all vane glory,
This fals warld is bot transitory,
The flesche is brukle, the Fend is sle;
Timor mortis conturbat me.”

William Dunbar (1460–1520) Poet and civil servant

"The Lament for the Makars", line 1.

“Your eyes were filled with love, Kate Vane;
Ah, would that we were young again!”

Thomas Dunn English (1819–1902) American state and federal politician

Kate Vane, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Love

“Miss de Vine: [In response to Harriet Vane's, "But you say you don't despise those who make some other person their job?"] "Far from despising them, I think they are dangerous."”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Gaudy Night (1936)

Thinking, Personality

“Harriet Vane: If anybody does marry you it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Strong Poison

Strong Poison (1930)

Pleasure