Hell,’ Shane spit in disgust. ‘I can’t hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her.’ He tossed her the bat.

Oh, come on, just this once,” Eve said. “Protects your neck. As in your arteries and veins?That’s kind of crucial, right?””Thanks for the thought, but it doesn’t go with my shoes.””You’re seriously going to worry...

Michael: ‘Hey, remember when I almost didn’t let you into the house that first day you came?’Claire: ‘Yep’Michael: ‘Well, I was dead wrong. Maybe I never said that out loud before, but I mean it,...

I almost get killed at most parties. Hence, you can tell that’s how much I love them.

They did seem pretty serious about their mayhem.

Little bit,” she said.

This won’t stop her from getting elected…Stupider people get elected all the time. It’s America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy.

Let’s say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren’t all living things undead....

Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker,” he told her. “My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray.”Oh. “You get me the nicest things.””Anybody can get jewelry....

Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael’s house when they’re all gone. I’m out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne

Did you talk to him about it?””Oh, sure. Nothing happened, yadda yadda. The usual. But my maydar went off like crazy.””Maydar?””As in, he may be thinking about super hot sex with her. Like radar, only...

The back door popped open, and Claire, fairy wings all a-flutter, pulled Miranda inside. It was like a military operation, only with one hundred percent less camouflage.

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

Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, “Don’t do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that’s not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from...

What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he’s out there, and he’s clearly not going to...

Who are you calling?” (claire)Pizza hut” (shane)Loser” (claire)

Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead,” he called. “And you said my dispersal system would never work!

I felt I should repeat it for the other slipper, in case there should be any bad feelings between the two. One should never create tension between one’s footwear.

My, if I didn’t loathe her so much, I’d admire her.

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.

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

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...

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.

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

Better broke than dead.

Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don’t do them anymore.

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.

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....

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.

Do be careful. I can’t replace you as easily as all that.

Yeah, he only loves you for your mind,” Shane said…

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.

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.

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

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

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?