L. J. Smith Quotes


L. J. Smith Quotes

Lisa Jane Smith

L. J. Smith is an American author of young adult fiction best known for her best-selling series The Vampire Diaries, which has been turned into a successful television show. (L. J. Smith Quotes)


“All her violence had drained away, replaced by a fear older and deeper than anything she’d ever experienced. An old, old recognition. Something inside her knew him from a time when girls took skin bags to the river to get water, a time when panthers walked in the darkness outside mud huts. From a time before electric lights, before candles, when darkness was fended off with stone lamps. When darkness was the greatest danger of all.”

L. J. Smith
The Hunter

“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

“And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening

“And I swear she will never know my secret. She will never have to give up the sunlight because of me.”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening

“And in the mean time I’ll fight dragons, just like any knight for his lady.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 1

“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

“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

“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

“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

“But where Katherine was a white kitten, Elena was a white tigress.”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening

“Damon’s voice was no louder than before. “Get away from my brother.” Bonnie could feel it inside him, a swell of Power like a tsunami. He continued, “Before I tear your heart out.”

L. J. Smith
The Fury / Dark Reunion

“Does everybody ever want everything they can have? really?”

L. J. Smith
Spellbinder

“Elena smiled and he had to smile back, at first just a quirk of the lip, and then a full smile. She was… Damn it, she was everything. Witty, enchanting, brave, smart…and beautiful. And he knew that his eyes were saying all that and that she wasn’t turning away.”

L. J. Smith
Nightfall

“Even if we’re not together, we’ll never really be apart.”

L. J. Smith
Secret Vampire

“Even if you kill her, she’ll still be alive-here.” He tapped his chest. “In me. I keep her here. She’s part of me. So until you kill me, you can’t really kill her. And you can’t win. It’s that simple.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 2

“Even when we’re apart, we’ll be looking at the same sky!”

L. J. Smith
Daughters of Darkness

“Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace.”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening

“For a moment, as Damon glanced toward Elena, their gazes met and something electric passed between them. It made Elena tingle all over, that look did.”

L. J. Smith
Nightfall

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn about anyone else”

L. J. Smith
The Fury / Dark Reunion

“Friends are people to worry about, they’re baggage.”

L. J. Smith
The Chosen

“He looked at her then, and she could see he wasn’t afraid. “Nothing really dies as long as it’s not forgotten,” he said.”

L. J. Smith
The Forbidden Game

“He put an arm around his brother to help him up. And then, for a moment, he just held on.”

L. J. Smith
The Fury / Dark Reunion

“He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator’s heartbeat.”

L. J. Smith
Secret Vampire

“I am just two and two. I am hot. I am cold. I’m the parent of numbers that cannot be told. I’m a gift beyond measure, a matter of course, and I’m yielded with pleasure- when taken by force.”

L. J. Smith
The Forbidden Game

“I can awaken things inside you that have been sleeping all your life. You’re strong enough to live in the dark, to glory in it. You can become a queen of the shadows. Why not take that power, Elena? Let me help you take it.”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening / The Struggle

“I don’t need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.”

L. J. Smith
Daughters of Darkness

“I fell in love with you. I didn’t do it on purpose”

L. J. Smith
The Hunter

“I love you,” she said. “You made me fall in love with you. I don’t care how tall you are or what color your hair is-I care about you. You make me laugh. You’re smart. You’re gentle. And you’re real, you’re a real person, not some jock with a facade that’s going to fall apart when I get to know him. I know you already, and I love you, you idiot. I don’t care what you do with toilet paper.”

L. J. Smith
The Kill

“I need you like – like light. You’re light, all right – like a flame to a moth. I told you once that you shouldn’t mess with forbidden things – I should have taken my own advice.”

L. J. Smith
The Forbidden Game

“I used my brains to outsmart teachers—and that wasn’t very smart at all.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 1

“I’m playing with fire, with something I don’t understand.”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening

“In grace and beauty and sheer fascination, they were alike. But where Katherine had been a white kitten, Elena was a snow-white tigress.”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening

“In the Night World there’s this idea called the soulmate principle. It says that every person has one soulmate out there, just one. And that person is perfect for you and is your destiny.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 1

“It cast an unholy glow all around him – which was entirely appropriate, because Julian was as seductive as mortal sin and as haughty as the devil.”

L. J. Smith
The Forbidden Game

“It did cross our minds at one point. Actually, it seemed to keep crossing them. Back and forth. Maybe we should put in a crosswalk. – Ash Redfern”

L. J. Smith
Daughters of Darkness

“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 means that there’s only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 2

“It took me a while to get myself untied. Every time I meet you , I seem to end up hog-tied and unconscious”

L. J. Smith
The Chosen

“It was as if the normal veil that separated two people had melted.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 2

“It was like a song, one of those sweet, wrenching songs that makes the hair on your arms stand up. That makes you want to throw yourself on the floor and just bawl. Or fall backward and surrender to the music utterly.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 1

“It’s as if the world is full of honeybees and I’m the only flower” -Elena”

L. J. Smith
Shadow Souls

“It’s the idea that everyone has one and just one soulmate in the world, and that if you find them, you recognize them immediately.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 2

“Light to darkness, Jenny. Darkness to light. It’s always been that way.”

L. J. Smith
The Hunter

“Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.”

L. J. Smith
The Forbidden Game

“Maybe there was a magic stronger than spells. Maybe the soulmate principle was responsible, and if two people were meant to be together, nothing could keep them apart.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 1

“Mouse sandwiches and open graves?” Meredith arched an elegant eyebrow. “I think you’re getting Stephen King mixed up with Lewis Carroll.”

L. J. Smith
Dark Reunion

“Nothing really dies as long as it’s not forgotten”

L. J. Smith
The Forbidden Game

“Our minds work alike, she thought. She had found her partner, her equal, the one to work and live and love with her. Her soulmate.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 2

“Poppy had known for years that she was going to marry him. It was one of her two great ambitions, the other being to see the world. She just hadn’t gotten around to informing James yet.”

L. J. Smith
Secret Vampire

“Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don’t belong here. It’s me that’s out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there’s somewhere I do belong, but I just can’t find it.”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening

“Rumors spread fast, and they grow. I know. You want to either deny them, or disarm them”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 2

“She knew, then, that it had not been hatred that had made him avoid her for so long. No, it had not been hatred at all.”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening

“She stood slim and proud as some medieval witch princess against dawn.”

L. J. Smith
The Passion

“She was the one who was supposed to have walked with him through different lives, being born and loving and dying and being born again. They’d been born for each other, to help each other grow and blossom and discover and evolve.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 2

“Soulmates. That was the word. Maggie could sense what it meant. Two people connected, bound to each other forever, soul to soul, in a way that even death couldn’t break. Two souls that were destined for each other.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 3

“That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.”

L. J. Smith
Witchlight

“That was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable…When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness.”

L. J. Smith
Witchlight

“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

“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

“The love she felt for Rob now was a burning tenderness, a knowledge that he was the one who’d taught he it was POSSIBLE to love, who had melted the ice of her heart. it was strong and gentile and steady, full of admiration and the intimacy of shared likes and dislikes. it was golden and warm like a summer afternoon.”

L. J. Smith
The Passion

“The name is Salvatore. As in savior.”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening / The Struggle

“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

“There is a Shadow World, like our own but different, existing alongside ours but never touching. Some people call it the world of dreams, but it is as real as anything else.”

L. J. Smith
L. J. SmithThe Hunter

“There was a silence. Hannah’s own heart was twisted with the force of her love for him. Her eyes were full.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 2

“There would never be a place where he could belong completely, where he could truly be himself. Unless he chose to belong to the shadows”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening

“There’s nothing to read into. I’m just here to collect my beloved Damon and Stefan is just helping me.”

L. J. Smith
Shadow Souls

“They had been a couple for so long that everyone thought of them as Tom-and-Jenny, a single unit.”

L. J. Smith
The Forbidden Game

“They weren’t a centuries old hunter and a seventeen year old girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Bonnie and Damon.”

L. J. Smith
Dark Reunion

“To touch him in ways he’d never been touched before, this person who, beyond all logic, was the other half of her. Who belonged to her. Who was her soulmate.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 3

“We belong to 2 different races, races that hate each other. There’s no way to get around that”

L. J. Smith
The Chosen

“We knew each other, it was as if each could see the other one’s soul. Once you see into someone’s soul, you’re attached forever.”

L. J. Smith
Spellbinder

“We who are so lucky as to be born into the light – who see it every day and never think about it, we’re blessed. We could have been born shadow souls who live and die in crimson darkness, never even knowing that somewhere there is something better.”

L. J. Smith
Shadow Souls

“What if you had to choose one an not the other?”

L. J. Smith
Dark Reunion

“When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses its caterpillar life.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 1

“When you’re soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that’s the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don’t think you’re soulmates; you just know it’s your destiny whether you like it or not.”

L. J. Smith
Night World, No. 1

“Wherever her feet pass, white flowers part the grass.”

L. J. Smith
Nightfall

“Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? – Damon”

L. J. Smith
Nightfall

“Winter is coming, Elena,” he said, and his voice was clear and chilling even over the howling of the wind, “An unforgiving season. Before it comes, you’ll have learned what I can and can’t do. Before winter is here, you’ll have joined me. You’ll be mine.”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening / The Struggle

“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

“You don’t love somebody because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song that nobody but you can understand.”

L. J. Smith
Secret Vampire

“You know, you’ve never really cared about anyone,” he said. “But someday you will, and it’s going to hurt. It’s going to hurt a lot.”

L. J. Smith
Secret Vampire

“You showed me what it was like to love. What the world could be like”

L. J. Smith
The Kill

“You turned your back on me when I needed you.”

L. J. Smith
The Awakening / The Struggle

“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

“You won’t find Earth people, quite the easy mark you imagine”

L. J. Smith
Secret Vampire

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