Nora Roberts Quotes

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

I'm a stand-up comedian-turned-actor-turned-vampire at night.

My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

No book has ever made me laugh as much as 'I, Partridge.'

He also deeply distrusts vampires, as you had guessed yourself,” Bones added. “Aside from that, all I heard was enough repetitions of ‘how many chucks could a woodchuck chuck’ to make me want to stake myself.

Shane - "Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed.

You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.

“Hey, Adam,” I said. “I thought you'd want to know that Warren and Darryl made it out of the vampire den alive.” I sucked in my breath. “You didn't actually agree to their meeting on Marsilia's grounds?” He laughed. “No, it just sounded better than saying they made it out of Denny's alive. It might not be romantic, but it's open all night and set in the middle of a brightly lit parking lot with no dark places for skulking parties to ambush from.”

Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.

Is that a stake, Bones, or are you just happy with my new dress?” “In this case, it’s a stake. You could always feel around for something more, though. See what comes up.

If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it. If you are here to be offended, may your ire rise and your blood boil. If you seek an adventure, may this song sing you away to blissful escape. If you need to test or confirm your beliefs, may you reach comfortable conclusions. All books reveal perfection, by what they are or what they are not. May you find that which you seek, in these pages or outside them. May you find perfection, and know it by name.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

Ha," I said. "Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, ’cause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?" One," said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell.

It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often I find Christians - but not just Christians, (any) people who have a certain core belief of things - don't like to have fun made of them at all.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.

I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die. --Natalya Shonski