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...

I ended your experiment. Because you’re not a scientist. You’re a monster. I’m not leaving any of them at your mercy.

The Apocalypse must be near, because a guy is arguing against grilling.

Of course. What else? Why can’t any of you guys ever come up with something that uses chocolate?

Boys. I’d turn gay if they weren’t so sexy.

But that quickly faded, and he frowned. “You’re bleeding,” he said. “What happened?”Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the bandage. “Man, you would be so embarrassed if I said it was...

I’m not like you. I’ll never be like you. Best of all, I don’t have to be.

Well,” he said, “I think we’ve found our way in. We just wait until they’re duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don’t have a lot of staying power or they’d have...

I need to be a vampire,” she said. “and I want one of them to make it happen. Michael will do fine. I don’t care who turns me. The important thing is that if I...

You’re kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn’t that the international language for smart people?”-Shane (Glass Houses)

I just—we were talking, and we fell asleep. I swear, we didn’t, um—’’‘‘Yeah, you’d better not have ummed.

Welcome,” Vassily said, and smiled. He showed teeth. “To Immortal Battles. We don’t fight to the death — we fight beyond death, in the world’s most dangerous sport.

They don’t know you’re secretly a badass?

She needs you for more than just protection. It’s how it works. You want the strong girl, you understand that she’s with you because she wants to be. Not because she has to be. You...

When I want to know your opinion, I’ll consult your entrails.

[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]”Don’t they teach you anything in your schools?””Not about this.””Pity. I suppose that’s what comes of your main education flowing from Google.

I think I’d fall for you no matter what, Claire. You’re kind of awesome.

In real life, you don’t get a reset, and you don’t get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me.

Does it give you deja voodoo how alike the houses are?””That’s deja vu, and I hate you right now.””For narcing on you to your mom? Wait until you hear what I tell your dad.”From the...

I’m good. And it’s good to see you’ve kept up the tradition of getting the holy shit beat out of you,even when you’re in a nice, civilized place.

I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

You’re seriously going to worry about what people think right now?””No, I’m worrying about people taking pictures and putting them on Facebook. That crap never dies. Kind of like you, Mikey.”Michael, straight-faced, said, “He’s got...

If she were any friendlier, she’d be giving you a lapdance right now.

Might as well go out flipping the bird to the powers that be killing us.

I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway.” There was a flicker of jealousy about that,...

You humans, always eating. I’ll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working.” Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab.”Don’t use the same beaker you used...

They came out in a dim, damp basement – a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. ‘You take me to the nicest places,’ Claire said, and sneezed.

It’s an illusion, control,” Naomi said. “You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is...

Yeah. She’d manipulated the second most powerful vampire in town into taking her side against a psycho bitch-queen sorority girl. She’d talked rationally about putting people’s brains into computers. This was a normal day. No...

That’s it? That’s your big goodbye?” Eve asked.Claire looked at Eve mystified. “I think I need guy CliffNotes.””Guys aren’t deep enough to need CliffNotes.””What were you waiting for, flowery poetry?” Shane snorted. “I hugged. I’m...

Silence, and then Eve said, “Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind.

He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants,” Eve said. “Define crazy.

„What kind of stupid trip is this? So far, I’ve been assaulted, insulted, arrested, and now I’m tied to a chair by a bunch of vampires in case they crave a little O negative at...

Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide blood stains was just good daily planning.

Glad it was you and not me,” Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. “Any brain damage?””Since the bullet actually passed through his brain, then yes, idiot boy, there’s certainly brain damage,” Oliver said....

Run first,’ Shane said. ‘Mourn later.’It was the perfect motto for Morganville.

Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn’t open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn’t sounded mean, they just sounded — self-confident. Something she wasn’t.

You know,” I said to Michael, “my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch.” “Too bad she isn’t here,” he said.

What about Myrnin?’Eve swallowed, almost choked, and Michael patted her kindly on the back. She beamed at him. ‘Myrnin? Oh yeah. He did a Batman and took off into the night. What is with that...

Morely: You’re trying to make me [i]Amelie[/i] Oliver: Goodness, no. You’d look terrible in a skirt

This one is named Eve,” I said. “And don’t check my teeth like I’m your livestock. I bite back.

I can smell the crazy on that man from here. I have a nose for it.

Shred all that, then take the pieces to the incinerator at the end of the hall for burning. I like to be thorough.

Guys aren’t deep enough to need CliffsNotes.

That’s kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.

Claire found herself staring at his feet, which were in bunny slippers. Myrnin looked down. “What?” he asked. “They’re quite comfortable.” He lifted on to look at it, and the ears wobbled in the air....

An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.