It’s bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You’ll do your best not to act like children.

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

Why?” Eve asked between breathless pants. she wasn’t much of a runner either.”Someone’s coming” Shane said. “Shhhh.”Eve choked and strangled on a cough, and muttered “got to cut down on the cigarettes.””you don’t smoke,” Claire...

Little bit,” she said.

Nobody’s cut out for this town,” Shane said. “Nobody sane anyway.””Says the kid who came back.””Yeah, kind of proves my point.

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

You’re just Little Miss Optimist, aren’t you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?

at least this way we’re safe in a room with a door that locks. And the sign says they have HBO.”That stands for Horrible Bloody Ohmygod.” Eve said. “which is the way they kill you....

„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.

More than your circulatory system?”Eve silently kicked off the stilettos and backed up.

You’re much shorter than my mom.””Brat,” she said, surprised into a giggle.”That’s no way to talk to a vampire.””Bloodsucking brat.””Better” he said.

Funny how physics didn’t go away when you were murdered.

Kind of is, actually.

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

See, I knew I could count on you for quality mayhem, my man.

It’s because you’re young and you refuse to acknowledge what you are. What it means. What it promises. You’re fighting your condition, and that makes it almost impossible for you to control yourself. You need...

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.

You humans, always eating. I’ll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working.” Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab.”Don’t use the same beaker you used...

Hey!” Claire called after him, as she leaned her backpack against the wall.”No onions!””Your loss!””I meant for YOU! Not if you want to get kissed tonight!””Damn, girl. Harsh.

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

Yes,” he said. “I am sure. I double-checked everything after you went home yesterday. I even made a few improvements, just in case.” The first part of that reassured her. The second part… not so...

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

Damn. That was stupid, wasn’t it? We nearly got killed over ice cream.

I’m not like you. I’ll never be like you. Best of all, I don’t have to be.

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...

Myrnin, who hadn’t said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened, shocked, and for a panicked second wondered whether he’d suddenly decided to snack on her neck… but it was...

Does it give you deja voodoo how alike the houses are?””That’s deja vu, and I hate you right now.””For narcing on you to your mom? Wait until you hear what I tell your dad.”From the...

That’s not trouble; that’s fail. Tell me that isn’t all the whites. Like, Michael’s and Shane’s, too.””All the whites,” Claire said, and held up the guilty red sock. “Yours?””Oh, damn.” Eve snatched it out of...

I think it’s interesting.

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...