Stop that, Anna scolded him. You don’t need to hurt because I do.But I do, Charles replied, more honestly than he intended.

I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make...

I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.

ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.

Love is not necessary for sex.

Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them.Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn’t tell what it was at first.”A dog?” asked Zee, staring at my necklace.”A lamb,”...

And thus Charles found himself wandering around a hotel, trailing federal agents as he held a cardboard coffee cup holder in each hand, instead of out killing misbehaving werewolves.

One more month,” he said finally. “And then they—and Samuel, too—will just have to get used to it. His eye is the color of a bitch with dark chocolate, worst few years and he leaned...

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.

You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.

You’d tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.

We’ve determined that Ms. Hauptman is a potential threat to the public safety, and we are bringing her in as a murder suspect who has supernatural powers that make her too dangerous to be incarcerated...

One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me...

Brother Wolf gave Anna an amused look and then went back to being scary.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, “At the very least, you will be polite to them.

I give up. What’s the use of having a man in the house?

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

All right,” Mom said. She gave Samuel a stern look,”Now I don’t know what’s going on between you and my daughter and Adam Hauptman-“”Neither do we,” I mutteredSamuel grinned “We have it pretty well worked...

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.

Yes,’ he said sincerely. ‘Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

I don’t like lies,” said Bran, and I knew I’d failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. “Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but...

We have a whole garage worth of tools — pry bars, tire irons, and even a hammer or two. There’s got to be something better than my torque wrench he could have grabbed.

Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.

Werewolf games,’ Mercy said solemnly, ‘play for keeps, or go home.’ She was so cute sometimes it made Adam’s heart hurt.

Fortunately, he’d found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .

When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

Adam didn’t approve of Wal-Mart.

Any idiot can put up a website.

Don’t make light of any man’s pain.

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn’t Buffy–I was so screwed.

What do you mean?” Leslie’s voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day.

Mine is what she is.

My mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person’s mouth was the truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they’ll change what they...

You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.

He sighed. ” I don’t think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn’t do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn’t do anything differently, would you?””No.

It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.

Mine,” he said.Adam’s eyes narrowed. “I don’t think so. She is mine.”It would of been flattering, I thought, except that at least one of them was talking about dinner and I wasn’t certain about the...

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.