How’d you get to be so good at this?””I had a good teacher.””Better not have been Myrnin or I’ll have to kick his predatory ass.””I mean you, dummy.””Oh.

He’s not doing anything he shouldn’t be doing, right?” “Like what?””Like hitting on you.””Ew. No, of course not. He doesn’t see me that way.” Michael shook his head and went back to his coffee.”What? You...

Dear girls, I can let anyone get hurt because in my world, my safety and well-being come first.

Jealous?””Maybe.””No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane

Great,” Shane said. “Look i’d rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners.””And to cleaning,” Michael said.”Look who’s talking, Didn’t the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in...

You are so lucky I’m too tired to murder you right now.

what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

No, not you two. Stay here.”Does he just not get how unfair and sexist that is?’ Eve asked. ‘Men.”You really want to go first?”Of course no. But I’d like the chance to refuse to go...

Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish.

I love it when you talk dirty physics.

The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they’ll never dare to raise a hand again.

I feel like I’m some kind of fugitive here, like I’m hiding from something. Maybe myself.

The world doesn’t end, Claire. In the morning, the survivors start to build again. It’s way of things. The human way.

The door banged open, and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. ‘It’s not what you think,’ she said. ‘It was just—oh, okay, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now,...

She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he’s not… you know, better.””Define BETTER with that guy.””Not all fangs and raaaaar.

It’s not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

See?” he said, with an unholy amount of glee. “I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often.””No. Trust me, you shouldn’t,” Eve said. “Think of all the little old people and...

His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. “Is this the part where I kiss you?””If you like.””Oh,” he said, “I like.

As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire’s shirt. “What?””Ask him where he got the boots.””You ask.” Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers.

Go to hell and take that with you!” She shouted it right in Amelie’s face. Evewas an exotic blaze of color against Amelie’s white fury.And then she slapped the Founder in the face.

The saga started out a normal day—don’t they all? I mean, surely one morning back there in prehistoric times a dinosaur woke up, yawned, chewed some coffee beans, and thought his day was going to...

This was…This was sickeningly different. It was blind, unreasoning hate that just wanted blood and she didn’t understand why. It left her feeling horrified and shaky.

Giving up is always easy. It’s the peace that follows that sucks.

Take the back door,” she said. “Claire, you and your strang friend-“”Eve,” they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. “Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of...

Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles,...

Let’s say she’s a friend of the family.

I hate traveling with amateurs.

That’s very rude,” Myrnin said. “I haven’t brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway.

And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.

I had a good teacher.””Better not have been Myrnin or I’ll have to kick his predatory ass.””I mean you, dummy.

She smells better,” Claire said. “And she made me cookies.

Clarity confused me. I was far less forgiving and kind than the general state of disconnection in which I liked to live.

Only as equals can we keep the peace. It is not in our nature, but it is the only way to survive.

Next time we commit crime, we’ll make sure to include him.

In this whole screwed-up town, you’re the only thing that’s always been right to me,” he whispered. “I love you, Claire.” She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across...

Perv.”He pointed to himself. “Male and eighteen. What’s your point?

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person’s arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb,...

Shane: “Bro,” he said, in an injured tone, “I had to go out with a flamethrower, and you weren’t there to see it.” Michael: “Pics or it didn’t happen.” Shane: “Dude, little busy for pics....

If you ask me if I’m okay again, I’m going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. “Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can’t stay mad when you do that.

He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?

Please don’t go away. You–you matter. To me.

Clumsiness would be just as deadly an opponent.

Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.

What’s your name?’ she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know.Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn’t, either. He had a name, a...

I’ve got yours.

When she set Shane’s glass of Coke down in front of him, she did it with probably a little too much emphasis; he glanced up at her with a question-mark expression.[…] ‘‘What?’’ Shane asked her,...

You’ve turned into quite a bossy little thing,” Myrnin said. “I think I might like it.