Foul!” yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. “Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now.

Every time he touched her, the touch felt new, like something they had just invented together.

In two words,” said Alan quietly, “there is nothing I love half as much as you.

Cheap thrills, mostly,” said Kami.

Oh, Alan Ryves,” she said. “You’re such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.

She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment...

I cook better than you,” Nick corrected absently. “I think monkeys can probably be taught to cook better than you.””I’d like to have a monkey that cooked for me,” said Jamie. ” I would pay...

I did not matter what distant iron city had raised him. He had been made by Sorry-in-the-Vale, his bones as much a part of it as the valley and the woods. It was as if...

Sometimes I want to be human for you.

Done any exciting sums lately?””I don’t just do sums,” Miles told her. “There’s much more to my life than that.””Is there?” Alicia asked, trying to sound interested.”Yes,” said Miles. “Sometimes I draw graphs.

I don’t have deal breakers,” Alan said. “I look on tempests, and am never shaken.

She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.

Oh,” she said, in a very different way. “Well. Thanks for my part in the compliment. Naturally I’d love to be watched and controlled, but I think I may be washing my hair that day.

I can smite you ” Nick grumbled. “Anytime I like.

I’m not sure if I’ll be here when you get back. This place is a little—it’s a little much for me.”She didn’t have to tell him how it was. He had lived here for years,...

quiet place.” He recalled even more vividly being obscenely drunk and unhappy over his heartbreak of that time, and the maudlin thoughts that had recurred to him over the years, like an unwanted guest slipping...

There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep.

Wearing that? Wouldn’t you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays.”Oh, I am planning things,” said Jamie. “Great, great things. I could join a band.””You gave up the guitar after two...

I don’t have your way with words “Sin said. “So I’m just going to go with a quick response. Ha

Some say love cannot be bought, but mine is available at this time for anyone with a good heart and the ability to use a photocopier.

Abracadabra, moron.

Kami,” he said, “you’re crying.” “No, I am not,” Kami lied. “I got something in my eye.””You got something in your eye.””Yes. Possibly a speck of dust,” Kami said, and broke down. “All right, possibly...

It is the east, and Juliet is a jerk!

Oh, you need Alan to betray Nick and then you’ll steal Nick’s powers and kill them both,” said Mae. “Great idea. Hey, can i come? I’ll bring a picnic lunch if you promise not to...

I-” said Nick, his voice halting. “I don’t mind it as much when – when people touch me. Some people.”Mae looked down, and Nick, who looked more relaxed when he’d been stabbed, slowly lifted his...

Friends don’t menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay?

all fiction is better with explosions’ said Jared. ‘Basic fact of life.

Also, vampires don’t eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I’d rather die.

‘That Rusty,’ they say. ‘Charming and handsome,’ they say first, of course—they’re not blind. Then they add, ‘All the ambition and drive of a chocolate sundae.’

I saw you put rice in a toaster once,” said Mae. “I was there when made the tin of beans explode.””It was faulty,” Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. ” I am sure of this.

Alan: “I had terrible stage fright.”Sin: “I’m not familiar with the concept of ‘stage fright.'”A: “It’s pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience,...

Sometmes when you pull knives on people, they get this impression that you’re going to hurt them, and then they’re completely terrified. Crazy, I know!””Okay,” said Nick. He turned to Jamie & popped his left...

I realise people exist who don’t read. But it’s like I knew there were people who didn’t breathe or eat: I can’t imagine a life like that.

I want to burn the world because Alan is gone,” he said. “I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you...

When a guy says,’I’ll call you,’ and he doesn’t say when-that means he won’t call you.” Kit pulled his phone out of his pocket and pressed a couple buttons. My phone vibrated in my pocket....

You crazy girl. Other people name their children after their best friends. I am going to name my ulcer after you! I am going to be forced to drink milk and take antacids and abstain...

You’re dressed for dancing,” she said in her throaty stage voice. “Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn’t think Merris would like it.

Want me to flex my magic for you, baby?

If good men pretend to be villains, how is anybody supposed to know the difference between them?

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes.”That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.

Do you like him? Ty asked. “Not that I care.” “I do,” I said, because it was true. Even though it didn’t matter anymore. “Not that I care you don’t care. Though you clearly do...

Fear’s useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn’t: If it doesn’t, you’ve wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you’ve wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

Okay, can you pass yourself off as a magician and gain Gerald’s trust and pass us information about Celeste’s plans and save all the magicians who want to be saved? Jaime asked. “Because if so...

Not really a party until someone brings the surprise zombies.

Well, speaking as a feminist, I’m glad that women can lead–uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil.””Yes,” Alan said gravely. “It’d be shoking if the evil magicians were sexist. For one thing, that would mean they...

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

She had worried she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn’t broken. She had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.

Mae’s first impulse was to die of shame, but she realized after a hot, stomach-clenching moment that this was probably impractical.