My Favorite Quotes

Nightshade Novellas: Shadow Days

These quotes are from one of the Nightshade novellas, Shadow Days. It's from Shay's point of view. I know I said that What Really Happened in Peru would be up next, but then I realized I'm on the really long quote that is about half a chapter long and that it would be easier to do Shadow Days first. Shadow Days takes place before Nightshade, which means Calla and the others won't be in it. Shadow Days is an ebook, which means no page numbers. It's written by Andrea Cremer. Enjoy!

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"I cracked a smile for the first time since the phone call. Ally believed in only cursing with newly invented words. After I'd met her and commented on it, she'd replied, "The best thin about English is its inventiveness. There are always new words. If you're sticking with standard cussing, you're not thinking hard enough."" (Nightshade Novella: Shadow Days, written by Andrea Cremer)

"Two hours later my housemates and I were fully caffeinated and wrestling my stuff into boxes.
"I'll give you my first child," Mike said, hefting my stack of Walking Dead.
"No deal." I roll another sweater into a ball and sank it into a suitcase. "Put them in the trunk and back away slowly."" (Nightshade Novella: Shadow Days, written by Andrea Cremer)

""Look at this one." Mike held up a tattered copy of Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth.
"Face it, Mike," I said. "You have no taste. I'm ready to defend the value of flea market books and the utter genius that is cover art from the seventies."
"Yeah?" Mike said, handing the book to Ally and picking up another one. The cover had fallen off, leaving the title page naked, so I could see it was Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. "Nice cover art here."
I shrugged. "Read it too many times. And dropped it in a lake once."" (Nightshade Novella: Shadow Days, written by Andrea Cremer)

""You're going to keep him here as a hostage," Mike said. "Nice. His uncle's loaded."
Ally ignored him. "I know you have this whole social media aversion thing-"
"I'd rather read...or go on a hike," I replied automatically. "I'm content with texting."
"No excuses," she said, wagging her finger in my face. "We're setting you up a Facebook page right now."" (Nightshade Novella: Shadow Days, written by Andrea Cremer)

"I'm moving into evil Hogwarts, I texted Ally.
She answered a few seconds later. Nice. Too bad you're a Muggle." (Nightshade Novella: Shadow Days, written by Andrea Cremer)

"When Victoria loaded that clip about the assassin angels from Doctor Who, I ran round the mansion double checking that none of the statues had moved. For a few minutes I'd been convinced that each night, when the crash woke me up, it meant the statues were systematically closing in on me. But all the winged, marble people were in the same places they'd been the day I moved in. I pretty much felt like an idiot after sprinting around the house." (Nightshade Novella: Shadow Days, written by Andrea Cremer)

"HERE'S A GOOD RULE: Don't make and post web videos when you're paranoid, sleep deprived, and angry.
I broke that rule big time. I still can't believe I did it.
Fortunately the people that had been hanging out with me on the Internet were the forgiving sort. Lucky me. Seriously.
I had to make it up to them. Some of the comments were so sweet I thought I should write personal thank-you notes.
Dear Emily, Roses are red, violets are blue, I would go crazy if not for you.
On second thought, that was just creepy. I'd stick with the videos." (Nightshade Novella: Shadow Days, written by Andrea Cremer)