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.

And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece of rebar lying around, and I knew with sudden certainty that these guys...

Don’t diss me, Danvers. I’m warning you.”I’m not dissing you,’ Claire sighed. ‘I’m ignoring you. There’s a difference. Dissing you implies I think you’re actually important.

I’m worried he’s going to … do something crazy.” “He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants,” Eve said. “Define crazy.

I can handle Glory.” “Can you?” Eve asked. “Because I notice you never call her Gloriana. Just Glory.” He shut up. Which is probably about the only smart thing he can do, Claire thought.

That’s incredible…I don’t know–okay, well, you know, nobody’s probably voting for me. I mean, I’m not Richard. I haven’t gone out of my way to be responsible or anything.

Do you imagine that they’re going to issue me a citation…what was your name again?””Still Eve.””No, I’m sure it’s something else. That doesn’t seem right.

Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they’d consider wrong. Or at least risky.

Now defend what is ours, my partner.”He grinned … grinned! … and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked.

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

Myrnin was heading for Kim when she picked up a crossbow lying on a table nearby and shot him pointblank in the chest.He staggered backward, muttered, “Not again

I’m not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.

Did he just say–?””Yes,” Claire said, smiling. “Yes, he did.””Whoa. Guess I’d better stay alive, then.

No way they could threaten him, not even with Amelie; he’d already given Amelie the finger on the way out of Morganville and he clearly wasn’t worried about her coming after him— or, if so,...

I never did have much, so having it rough came with the territory. I was conditioned for it.

Here, you are exceptional…There, who knows? They might not value you as much as we do.

It’s been happening since I was in kindergarten. Not them all the time, but other kids, you know. Every day. It never stops, and it never goes away, thanks to the Internet–it just keeps happening...

You’d be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn’t do forlove.Myrnin.

Scoot over, man. I don’t like you that much.” “Dick. That’s not what you said last night.””Bite me.

„I won’t lie, it was awful, but what was worse was slowly realizing how bad I’d been. How close I’d been to becoming . . . a thing. A senseless monster.

Girl, we need to get you on a study program, fast. You’re not going to last a week around here if you can’t keep up with the pop culture references. How about Lord of the...

There were a few things scarier than a bipolar vampire off his meds, but to be honest, not that many.

Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice?Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.

If you see Myrnin, tell him I said I want my slow cooker back.””Your- You let him borrow something you put food in?”Hannah’s smile disappeared. “Why?””Um, never mind. I’ll make sure it gets disinfected before...

Blame Eve.

It’s dreadfully unfair to say things like that when this is likely the last time we will speak and we both know you don’t mean what you say. It’s pure selfishness that you want to...

Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.

He’s named you heir apparent to the Apocalypse. Congratulations.

She came awake, stomach rumbling, and opened her eyes to see a plate being held right under her nose. When she reached for it, Shane snatched it back. ‘Nuh-uh. Mine.”Share!’ she demanded.’Man, you are one...