No,” said Luis, “You can’t date the Lord of the Night Court.””Well, I’m not, he dumped me.””You can’t get dumped by the lord of the night court.””Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never...

I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman–taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

You didn’t think I really liked you? Do you think I really like you now?”He turned toward her, uncertainty in his face.”You did go quite a lot of effort to be having this conversation, but…...

I’m sorry,’ she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, ‘I’m sorry Courtney.I’m sorry Marcus. I’m sorry Rachel.I’m sorry Jon. I’m sorry I’m alive and you’re dead. I’m sorry...

Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other’s arms.

Mutually assured destruction.

She’d always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Kiss my ass Rath Roiben Rye

I’m afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery – Cassel Sharpe

He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people...

There was a young lady of NigerWho smiled as she rode on a tiger;They returned from a rideWith the Lady insideAnd the smile on the face of the tiger.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today’s tasks.

You said you were allowed to lose it,’ some part of her reminded herself. ‘Not yet, not yet.

Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life.

Protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn’t the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

I’m going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I’ll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can....

A stray dog, I might understand,” she said. “But this? You are too softhearted.”No, Mabry,” Ravus said. “I am not.” He looked in Val’s direction. “I think she wants to die.”Maybe you can help her...

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

I’m not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the...

Baby,” she says in a harsh whisper, “in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever...

Christmas is supposed to be this time when everyone is nice to one another and forgives one another and all that, but the true meaning of Christmas is presents. And in the real world, Santa’s...

Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase.”I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk.”They’re for you.””You want me...

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. “No,” she said softly, “Oh no. No.” “Leave me,” said Gavriel. …..”Shut up or I might,” she...

Lie until even you believe it – that’s the real secret of lying

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be

He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as...

That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.

They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they’d loved...

People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real...

All friendships are negotiations of power.

Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying,...

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys are pouring shots of vodka.”To Zacharov!” one toasts.”To open hearts...

please,Tana,please.’ -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

You’re yourself,” Tana said, grinning. “More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can’t see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don’t even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I’m going to have to get down, ideally...

He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. “Sorry. I-I didn’t mean to. I just- I’ve been lying here...

Remember that I’m still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won’t let you out.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don’t care about being good.

She took a deep breath, “Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?” His expression turned very strange, almost as if she’d struck him, “yes,” he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page chapter 5

My view of writing “Coldest Girl in Coldtown” was to take every single thing that I loved from every vampire book I had ever read and dump it into one book–everything I like–trying to evoke...

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop,...

His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn’t place – one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before-Tana on Gavriel-page 21-chapter 3

So you’ll teach me?” Val asked.Ravus nodded agin. “I will make you as terrible as you desire.””I don’t want to be – ,” she started, but he held up his hand.”I know you’re very brave,”...