L.J. Smith quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, L.J. Smith has a lot to say. In this list we present the 73 best L.J. Smith quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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L.J. Smith quotes
I told you. You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.
— L.J. Smith
People Die…Beauty Fades…Love Changes…And You Will Always Be Alone
— L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 3
I want him to love me as much as I love him.
— L.J. Smith, The Awakening
I’m as cruel as life. As cruel as love.
— L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.
— L.J. Smith, The Captive Part II / The Power
Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.
— L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
Mary-Lynnette: “You have not read ‘Pride and Prejudice’.”Ash: “Why not?”Mary-Lynnette: “Because Jane Austen was a human.”Ash: “How do you know?”Mary-Lynnette: “Well Jane Austen was a woman, and you’re a chauvinist pig.”Ash: “Yes, well, that I can’t argue.
— L.J. Smith
The image isn’t reality. Even though we’re used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say ‘This is a doggie’ – but it’s not. It’s just an image.
— L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
I’m sorry Elena. I know that you want to help, but put yourself in her shoes, everything that happened tonight was to save you and that’s OK because she loves you so much. But somehow she’s always the one who gets hurt.
— L.J. Smith, Vreden och Återkomsten
That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.
— L.J. Smith, Witchlight
Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? – Damon
— L.J. Smith, Nightfall
Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?’ She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. ‘It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.
— L.J. Smith, Nightfall
Yeah, tell me I’m a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That’s the way to my heart.
— L.J. Smith, Nightfall
And just then Damon stepped out of the coat closet, and at the same time Aunt Maggie tripped him neatly and said, “Bathroom door beside you, ” and picked up a vase and hit the rising Damon over the head with it. Hard.
— L.J. Smith, Nightfall
Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you.I remember how to fly.
— L.J. Smith, Nightfall
And Meredith and Bonnie, who’s going to bend some spoons for us next. I’m going to throw you down a rope… that is, unless Bonnie can levitate you out.
— L.J. Smith, The Struggle
And to see the white flash of Klaus’s eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him, and then lightning crackled.From an empty sky.
— L.J. Smith, Dark Reunion
The Night World isn’t a place. It’s all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.
— L.J. Smith
More than anything.” Rob persisted. “You’d crawl on your belly over broken glass for her. Easy.
— L.J. Smith, The Passion
Oh yeah? How about M’Lin the cursed?
— L.J. Smith
Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed this?” as I do, and we will be sharing a belly laugh tomorrow.
— L.J. Smith, Midnight
That’s how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.
— L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 3
Each of them had done their best. Matt was still his friend. For Meredith, maybe the day would come when she could look at him and not think “inhuman” — or at least not think it immediately and constantly. Maybe Bonnie, the moth, would be able to stay away from the unholy flame. Now, there was something to worry about. He could all too easily see Bonnie taking a walk on the very wild side with Damon. His brother had a soft spot for her already, she knew. But if either of them had a problem, he already knew what he had to do to find a plan for a solution.Just look up.
— L.J. Smith, Blood Will Tell
Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?
— L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 1
Yes she met with a slight accident involving a stake.” Ash said “funny how that happens sometimes…
— L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 1
I can’t see anything” he said in a muffled voice, hand over his eyes. “I’m blind.
— L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 1
Don’t you just hate that, you meet a girl she seems pretty nice, you tell all your friends and before you know it she turns out to be a vampire, don’t you just hate it when that happens?
— L.J. Smith
Dismissed like a dog. Damon groped for his jacket behind him, found it, and wished that his groping for his sense of humor could be as successful. The faces around him were all the same. They could have been carved in stone.But not stone as hard as that that was coming together again around his soul. That rock was remarkably quick to mend—and an extra layer was added, like the layering of a pearl, but not covering anything nearly so pretty.
— L.J. Smith
You didn’t feed from her, ” he said, and this was not a question.“Swill poison? Not my kind of fun, little brother.”One corner of Stefan’s mouth quirked up. He made no response to this, but simply looked at Damon with eyes that were… knowing. Damon bridled.“I told the truth!”“Going to take it up as a hobby?
— L.J. Smith, Nightfall
Bonnie who had never hurt a – a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars…
— L.J. Smith, Nightfall
She let herself fall backwards into the music, and it was like falling in a dream, without fear.It was like being a raindrop falling into the ocean that had started you.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
Tell Hugh, ” she whispered.Tell Hugh your freaking self! He’s right here! And you’re not going anywhere.
— L.J. Smith
Aphrodite just kept smiling.Because she was just doing what a goddess does-the same way that a tornado rips houses apart or a fire burns down a forest.
— L.J. Smith, Spellbinder
I don’t need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.
— L.J. Smith, Daughters of Darkness
The thing is and I know this is going to sound strange- that I seem to love you sort of desperately.
— L.J. Smith, Daughters of Darkness
All I know is that right now I wanna rip your clothes off right here in the middle of this hall and throw you in one of these classrooms and kiss every square inch of your body, while a bunch of people who drive minivans listen wishing they were us.
— L.J. Smith
Elena gasped back, “I can touch the ground!””I can see you touching it!”, Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy.
— L.J. Smith, Dark Reunion
You wanted us all back together again!” Bonnie shouted at Caroline, and pulled the scandalized girl into the dance. Meredith, her dignity forgotten, joined them too. And for a long time in the clearing there was only rejoicing.
— L.J. Smith, Dark Reunion
I don’t trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don’t make me regret it.
— L.J. Smith
Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed th
— L.J. Smith, Midnight
For a moment he wondered, again, if he should just give it all up. Perhaps he should go back to Italy, back to his hiding place. What made him think that he could rejoin the world of daylight?But he was tired of living in shadows. He was tired of the darkness, and of the things that lived in it. Most of all, he was tired of being alone.
— L.J. Smith, The Awakening
I do believe in shooting the messenger.You know why? Because it sends a message.
— L.J. Smith, The Awakening / The Struggle
Oh hell. They’ve got Mrs B in a bag!
— L.J. Smith
Grandma, please don’t go. I’m frightened., Grandma. I need you!” “…never be afraid, Cassie. There’s nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it…
— L.J. Smith, The Captive Part II / The Power
She knew his secrets, knew him inside out.Humans could never know each other that way.They could never really get into another person’s head.All the talking in the world couldn’t even prove that you and the other person saw the same colour red.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.
— L.J. Smith
This was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable, she supposed. When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness. She felt utterly defenseless right now.
— L.J. Smith
I love you.I’ll love you forever.But I have to do this.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
Oh, I’m starting to cry again. That’s what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can’t explain why it isn’t . . . I don’t think it’s something anybody knows.
— L.J. Smith
He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator’s heartbeat
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
And this is how the ending starts.
— L.J. Smith, The Fury / Dark Reunion
She stood slim and proud as some medieval witch princess against dawn.
— L.J. Smith, The Passion
I don’t need him to comfort me or tell me it’s okay. I can make it okay, myself.Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world.She’d lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she’d found herself.And that would have to do.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
It doesn’t matter if you can’t say it right now. I’ll say it for both of us. And someday you’ll learn.
— L.J. Smith, The Awakening
It’s not wrong to hustle hustlers. It’s like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore
— L.J. Smith, Moonsong
Very touching, ” said a voice from the stairway. “Do you want me to imitate a violin?” – Damon
— L.J. Smith
She feels lonely all the time, she wants to be accepted, by anyone, on any terms, but she feels apart. As if nobody who really got to know her would trust her.
— L.J. Smith
The hell with your secrets, ” shouted Bonnie.“Language, language! How about this: One of you has kept a secret alltheir life, and is doing so even now. One of you is a murderer—and I amnot speaking of a vampire, or a mercy killing, or anything like that. Andthen there is the question of the true identity of Sage—good luck on yourresearch there!One of you has already had their memory erased—and I don’t meanDamon or Stefan. And what about the secret, stolen kiss? And then there isthe question of what happened the night of the motel, that it seems that nobodybut Elena can recall. You might ask her sometime about her theories aboutCamelot.
— L.J. Smith, Shadow Souls
Each night I lie and dream about the oneWho kissed me and awakened my desireI spent a single hour with him aloneAnd since that hour, my days are layed with fire.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Circle Booklet
I’m playing with fire, with something I don’t understand.
— L.J. Smith, The Awakening
DON’T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON’T YOU DARE! Or I’ll follow you to the next world and KILL you.
— L.J. Smith, Huntress
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
At the last moment she thought, I’m not ready.But she already knew the answer to that.Nobody was ever ready.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
I love you.” she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
— L.J. Smith, The Awakening / The Struggle
Merging like two drops of water.Together in a way that humans could never know.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.
— L.J. Smith, Bloodlust
Whatever. I just won’t have Elena hurt, is all. Or the little red-headed witch.” “Ah, yes, sweet Bonnie. I wouldn’t mind one or two like her. One for Samhain and one for the Solstice.”Damon snorted drowsily. “There aren’t two like her; I don’t care where you look. I won’t have her hurt either.
— L.J. Smith, Nightfall
Everything he was, he gave to her.
— L.J. Smith
If I let myself care, all I’ll feel is pain.
— L.J. Smith
Awakening will be sudden and shocking. You and I must be there for her awakening. We won`t be there for (her?) later on. That`s for other hands to do.
— L.J. Smith, Nightfall
Julian said the world was evil and horrible – remember? But then he proved himself that it wasn’t
— L.J. Smith, The Kill
You don’t love a girl because of beauty.You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
All the talking in the world couldn’t even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
Ash held one finger up. “OK. Now li
— L.J. Smith, Daughters of Darkness
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