Marta Acosta Quotes

Sometimes you suffer for the things that are important to you.

Sometimes you suffer for the things that are important to you.

Marta Acosta

Tags: importance, priorities, suffer

But how do you tell someone your genius ex-boyfriend invented microscopic nanobots to retrieve wayward sperm? You don’t.

But how do you tell someone your genius ex-boyfriend invented microscopic nanobots to retrieve wayward sperm? You don’t.

Marta Acosta

About Author

Marta Acosta is an American author of young adult, urban fantasy, and chick-lit fiction, known for her Casa Dracula series and for her 2013 book The She-Hulk Diaries. Acosta has also written under the pen name of Grace Coopersmith for her 2010 book Nancy's Theory of Style, which is based on a supporting character from her Casa Dracula series.

I've created a monsterNo you just released one.

I've created a monsterNo you just released one.

Marta Acosta

Tell me something in your native woodland language.

Tell me something in your native woodland language.

Marta Acosta

The potted plant could have been knocked over intentionally or accidentally, or maybe one of the animals that lived here broke it somehow.I thought of the impossibilities and improbabilities. Jack wou...

The potted plant could have been knocked over intentionally or accidentally, or maybe one of the animals that lived here broke it somehow.I thought of the impossibilities and improbabilities. Jack wou...

Marta Acosta

One day blurs into the next, one week is indistinguishable from another. Their existence consists of waiting for the weekend, then waiting for retirement, and then waiting for death.

One day blurs into the next, one week is indistinguishable from another. Their existence consists of waiting for the weekend, then waiting for retirement, and then waiting for death.

Marta Acosta

Lily, the girl who’d talked back to the jock, said, I want to get as far awayfrom my parents as possible. We’re like potassium and water.The other kids laughed and I said, Huh?If potassium comes into...

Lily, the girl who’d talked back to the jock, said, I want to get as far awayfrom my parents as possible. We’re like potassium and water.The other kids laughed and I said, Huh?If potassium comes into...

Marta Acosta

Tags: nerd joke, science

Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.

Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.

Marta Acosta

Tags: dark companion, fairness, games, life, trying

Jane, this young man is Jacob, my oldest son. It’s no secret that aheadmistress’s biggest challenge is her family. Jacob, say hello to Jane.Hello to Jane, he parroted, pulling out the pockets of his s...

Jane, this young man is Jacob, my oldest son. It’s no secret that aheadmistress’s biggest challenge is her family. Jacob, say hello to Jane.Hello to Jane, he parroted, pulling out the pockets of his s...

Marta Acosta

Tags: stupid funny

You know, I've always hated those stories about princes and princesses with some extraordinary ability, special because they're born special.' 'Like me?' He smiled wickedly, making me laugh a little....

You know, I've always hated those stories about princes and princesses with some extraordinary ability, special because they're born special.' 'Like me?' He smiled wickedly, making me laugh a little....

Marta Acosta

Tags: miracles, special snowflakes

It really turns me on when you talk geek.

It really turns me on when you talk geek.

Marta Acosta

Inside every man is a teenage boy, and we're -all- crazy in love with Shulky.

Inside every man is a teenage boy, and we're -all- crazy in love with Shulky.

Marta Acosta

A very ladylike bosom, she said, approvingly.There’s nothing there, I complained.The clerk grinned. I have been fitting bras for twenty-five years and noone ever thinks her breasts are good enough, sh...

A very ladylike bosom, she said, approvingly.There’s nothing there, I complained.The clerk grinned. I have been fitting bras for twenty-five years and noone ever thinks her breasts are good enough, sh...

Marta Acosta

Tags: funny

I'm driving so it's your job to make small talk.Oh.Not that small. He waved at the security guard as we left the club. Make medium talk.

I'm driving so it's your job to make small talk.Oh.Not that small. He waved at the security guard as we left the club. Make medium talk.

Marta Acosta

I used a light hand with my makeup because I wanted to look good without looking like a good time.

I used a light hand with my makeup because I wanted to look good without looking like a good time.

Marta Acosta

I took one look at his composed face and know he doesn’t understand,because if he did understand, he would be weeping, too, for this boy who loved a world that never loved him.

I took one look at his composed face and know he doesn’t understand,because if he did understand, he would be weeping, too, for this boy who loved a world that never loved him.

Marta Acosta

Tags: love, sad

I said his name softly to myself. Lucky. Lucian Radcliffe. His name must come from the Latin lucianus, meaning light, and that's what he was, golden and bright.I didn't care what Jack's name meant. Pr...

I said his name softly to myself. Lucky. Lucian Radcliffe. His name must come from the Latin lucianus, meaning light, and that's what he was, golden and bright.I didn't care what Jack's name meant. Pr...

Marta Acosta

I believe you’re in denial about her situation. Hasn’t she been asked to step away from those greater issues and resolve problems that are smaller in scope, like overturned vehicles and commuter tie-u...

I believe you’re in denial about her situation. Hasn’t she been asked to step away from those greater issues and resolve problems that are smaller in scope, like overturned vehicles and commuter tie-u...

Marta Acosta

He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits.Go ahead, I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for...

He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits.Go ahead, I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for...

Marta Acosta

Anyone can ride a bike, Jack said. Even an elf. The corner of his mouth went up in amusement. She can ramble through the grove, her natural habitat, and visit her animal subjects.

Anyone can ride a bike, Jack said. Even an elf. The corner of his mouth went up in amusement. She can ramble through the grove, her natural habitat, and visit her animal subjects.

Marta Acosta