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...

Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. ‘Will you swear?’And Myrnin said, shockingly, ‘I will.’ And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, ‘—frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater...

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

Oliver laughed – actually laughed.”I like this new Claire,” he said. “You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She’s interesting when she’s forthright.”Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the...

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...

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

Don’t worry…Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming.

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...

Myrnin said softly. “And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

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.

What was your name again?””Still Eve.””No, I’m sure it’s something else. That doesn’t seem right.

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

You’ve been the least useless apprentice I’ve ever had.

[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.

You can’t go around… licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That’s just… unsanitary.

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.

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.

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

I never meant it,” he was saying. “Never meant it to happen. Can’t stand it,seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something… What do I do? What can I do…?

You’re always caring about strays and outcasts among us, myself included. You really are a very odd girl, you know; so little sense of what is good for you.

You okay?””Fine.””Your heart’s beating really fast.””Gee, thanks. That’s very comforting that you can hear it.”He smiled, and it was the old Michael, the one she’d first met before all the vamp stuff.”Yeah, I know it...

She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked,...

I’ve got yours.

Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It’s terribly wasteful.

People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers…strangers are always at risk.

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 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...

I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. “I doubt you have the capacity.

Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.

He started to touch the mechanism under the keyboard, then pulled his hand back with a snap.”Ah,” he said. “Must deactivate the security….Turn around, please.””What?””Turn around, Claire. It’s a secure password!””You have GOT to be...

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

I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often.

There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I’m afraid. Critical...

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

Little bit,” she said.

That’s very rude,” Myrnin said. “I haven’t brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway.

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

When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it’s when you have the most to lose.

Just because he’s a spider doesn’t mean he deserves any less concern!

It’s not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

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

Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles,...

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

For now,” Amelie said. “Take her home. And — ” “Say nothing — yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times,” Myrnin said, much too sharply. “I’m ancient. I’m not deaf. ” Amelie’s...

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.

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

Are the two of you quite done with your sweet nothings? Because I might vomit.

Goodness,’ Myrnin said quietly. ‘I don’t think I should be watching this. I don’t think I’m old enough.

Kind of is, actually.