He whirled in the water and grinned at me. Damn, he was a handsome bastard. I realized he was half-naked. Blue swirls of tattoos painted his chest. When God made that chest, he did to...

Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open.

What?” my partner asked suddenly.I jumped, guilty at having been caught staring. But, hell, I thought, might as well ask. “Are you two–you know?” I made a vaguely obscene gesture with my fingers.He stopped walking...

And while thoulivest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain anduncoined constancy; for he perforce must do theeright, because he hath not the gift to woo in otherplaces: for these fellows of infinite tongue, thatcan...

Would it be such a terrible thing for us to fall in love?” he asked. …”Ask me again in the morning.

You said sloppy! Look, I didn’t even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.

I’m counting to ten in my head.””Is it helping?””No.””It doesn’t help me with you either. I used to life weights to alleviate frustration, but someone blowtorched my weight bench. How did you do it, by...

Derek, you just don’t say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you’ll spend your life alone.””Don’t change the subject. Andrea is cool. And she smells nice. It will be okay.”Apparently...

I can’t hate people that much. Don’t get me wrong. I want to murder every last Keeper I can find. But that’s not hate. That’s vengeance.

a dense wall of greenery bordered it, …an impenetrable barrier of oaks, evergreen shrubs, blackberry that somehow resisted the frost, and thorns. In the defense department, the witches would make Sleeping Beauty’s evil witch weep...

I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it.””It’s very zingy,” I agreed.

I almost forgot how gorgeous Adonis is,” she [Ava] said, “We should have made him one of us.”She [Ava] wouldn’t have gotten any argument out of me, but a strange sound escaped from James, almost...

Here, you can touch it, since you’re my best friend.

I lied. I need your help.””Who are we killing?””Do you have a pen?

I would not leave you. I’ll be there. Wherever you want ‘there’ to be.

Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him.”A fine pair we make,” he said.”Yeah.

Torch strode over and stared at the fiver”What’s this?””Some change for you. Buy your flunkies some decent clothes.” I dipped my fingers into the jar and smeared think fragrant paste on my face. Torch frowned,...

Will I get nights of ecstasy?””And days. Ecstasy all the time.

Men are pigs.

Double-check your century Jules. No dance cards.” Jules shrugged & gave me his most flirtatious smile.

I live alone.””And your point is?””You have the Pack. You’re surrounded by people who would fall over themselves for the pleasure of your company. I have no one. My parents are dead, my entire family...

We don’t need teenage bouda sex fiends as interns.How do you know he is a sex fiend?He is fifteen and he’s a bouda. Hello?

I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.

Hold your horses. I’m coming.”…”From where I’m standing you’re just breathing laboriously.”The snow swam out of focus. “Breathing hard. Are you coming or just breathing hard. You’ve got to get your one-liners straight.

Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes.

You look like shit.” Honesty is important in any relationship.

Kate Hudson is my style icon.

Miss Kane, I have been worried.Sorry, I’ve been in a faery closet and a werewolf dungeon.Business or pleasure?Business.

Abruptly, Elliot startles us all by standing and pulling his chair back so it scrapes across the tile floor. All eyes turn to him. He gazes down at Kate for one moment and then drops...

Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slits somebody’s throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

Who snitched?””We have people monitoring police radio frequencies. They gave Jim a heads-up in case our security had to storm PAD offices and bust you out of there. I found out when I saw Jim...

He glued the chair to my ass.”Silence.”Is it still…attached?””I can’t get it off.

It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide.

If anybody comes to challenge you, we’ll kick their ass. We’ll find a way to handle Roland. And if the pack Council produces any kittens, we’ll give them to Jim to raise., He needs to...

You’ve no fear of heights,” puffed the girl.”None,” I said.”I’ve heard that about you.

A silhouette stepped toward us, and another wave of pure power ripped through the throne room. “I’m only going to warn you once, Cronus,” said a voice, dark and dangerous. “Get the hell away from...

I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn’t very far.

I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

Mmmmm, yummy chocolate” after waking up from hunger pains and finding a Hershey bar in an empty refrigerator.

Some men were handsome. Some were powerful. Curran was…dangerous.

The vampire leaned forward, tapping a scimitar claw. “Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?””Yep.””Is he carrying a moon on his pitchfork?””No, it’s a pie.

Now remember, Kate.” Barabas leaned over to me, grinning. “You are the Consort. Be the Consort.” He stretched “be” into a three-syllable word. “Think like a-“”Open the door or I’ll punch you right in the...

(…) alguns livros são tão bons que queremos lê-los uma e outra vez. Afeiçoamo-nos a eles.Tornam-se…bom, tornam-se um pouco a nossa familia.

Oh, please, Vincent. We’re in the middle of a major tourist site. Père Lachaise cemetary is practically Disneyland for the Dead. It’s not some Buffy soundstage with vampires rising out of the ground every time...

Psych.”And just like that, he was out the door and gone.Oh boy.

I wouldn’t be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very impressive herd.

They really kicked me out?” “Refunded the tuition and everything.” Julie blinked a couple of times coming to grips with this tidbit. “So what happens now?” “I expect you’ll be a bum. Homeless and jobless...

In there?’She nodded.’You want us to go into the tortoise?’Another nod.’It’s alive.’Another nod.

If I lost him here, to this idiotic fight, after I fought and guarded him for two weeks, after I cried and thought he was dying, I would find him in the afterlife and I...

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.