Quotes From "Jessicas Guide To Dating On The Dark Side" By Beth Fantaskey

As you wish, of course." Lucius lowered the volume on an old record player, which spun a warped vinyl disk that wailed unfamiliar music, scratchy and whiny, like cats fighting. Or a coffin with rusty hinges opening and closing over and over again in a deserted mausoleum. "Do you like Croatian folk?" heasked, seeing my interest. "It reminds me of home."" I prefer normal music."" Ah, yes, your MTV with all the bumping and grinding. Like a shot of raging adolescent hormones administered via television. I'm not averse. Beth Fantaskey

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. Beth Fantaskey

As you know, I have always been curious about our immortality.. how it feels to live on and on through time.. I need speculate no longer, I have sampled eternity in Miss Campbell's fifth period "social studies" class. Three days on the concept of "manifest destiny, " Vasile. THREE DAYS. I yearned to stand up, rip her lecture notes from her pallid hands, and scream, 'Yes, America expanded westward! Is that not logical, given that Europeans settled on the Eastern shore? What else were they to do? Advance vainly into the sea? . Beth Fantaskey

Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too. Beth Fantaskey

You're a wrestler, right, Jake?" Dad asked, passing Jake more saag. My parents were in an Indian food phase. The evening's entree consisted of limp spinach. God forbid we'd throw a few burgers on the grill and just have a barbecue when guests came over. Jake gave the bright green, mushy contents a wary glance but accepted the bowl. "Yeah. I wrestle. I'm captain this year."" How Greco-Roman of you, " Lucius said dryly, lifting a glob of spinach and letting it drip, slowly, from his fork. "Grappling about on mats. Beth Fantaskey

Where do you. come from?" Frank challenged, puffing his chest, a little bolder now that he could breathe. "Some of us are starting to wonder."" I come from civilization, " Lucius retorted. "You wouldn't be familiar with the territory. Now pick up the books. Beth Fantaskey

Lucius shrugged. "Perhaps in time you will find it useful."" Sure. I'll keep it on my shelf right next to The Idiot's Guide to Becoming a Mythical Creature.''Lucius actually laughed. "Very funny. I didn't know you made jokes."" I'm a funny person, " I defended myself. "And by the way– I don't snore."" You do snore. And you mumble, too." My blood froze. The dream. "What? What did you hear?"" Nothing too intelligible. But it must have been a rather pleasant dream. You sounded ecstatic. Beth Fantaskey

I must endure, fighting the temptation simply to become slack-jawed like most of my school 'peers' (they wish! ), who will themselves into a collective, vacant, trancelike state for the duration of each class. (Although I sometimes secretly envy their ability to empty their minds completely for a full fifty minutes, reanimating only at the sound of a bell, like Pavlov's dogs...) Beth Fantaskey

My greatest friend is truth. Beth Fantaskey

One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful Beth Fantaskey

This is eternity, Antanasia, " he said, both warning and imploring. "Eternity. Beth Fantaskey

I was wrong to insult you, and not only because you are my hosts. I am afraid that I mistook kindness for weakness. My apologies. I stand - only with your aid - profoundly corrected. Beth Fantaskey

Why did I sign up for this?'' Because we grow by challenging ourselves. Beth Fantaskey