Cynthia Leitich Smith

Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“Turned out there was some big, bad Wolf in my good boy after all.”

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“Straightening, I asked, "What do you believe in?" "Old love songs, best friends, the collected works of J.R.R.Tolkien, crispy pork egg rolls…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

Bridget adds, "Did Anyone bring a weapon?" "Confiscated," Zach admits for both of us. Vesper holds up her metal fingernail file. "They…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“You ate the police?! I exclaimed.”

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

That's when it happens. Maybe it was my argument. Maybe it was my scary zeal. Whatever the reason, as soon as Megan…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

Vampires don't live at all," she points out, "neither do we." She has me there. "Fine, I'll go. But when Kurt leads…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

I may be heaven-sent, but I'm not perfect.

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“I like it,” I said. “The material’s so heavy, though. I may turn into a sweat monster.”

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“She seems to think being cryptic is some kind of substitute for having a decent personality.”

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“It's not about you, it's about the story. It's not about the folks who raise an eyebrow because you're not yet published…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

Love isn’t only passion and joy. It’s also sacrifice.

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“Ginny looks so small, huddled on the red carpet. We’ve known each other only a couple of days, but she’s brought sunshine…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate.…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“Miranda: You say you were my guardian angel. Does that mean you watched me all the time? Like when I got my…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“She may not need to breathe, but she's like air to me.”

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists,…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“Each second neared our last. We danced. “Kieren . . .” “Shhh . . .” We danced. “I’ll be okay.” Was that…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“I may be heaven-sent, bit I'm not perfect”

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“A secret is a burden. It's exhausting, a lie.”

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

Men suck. - Not all men. Just the really good ones.

— Cynthia Leitich Smith