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Sometimes the most interesting part of the conversation with someone who can't lie is the questions they don't answer.

I like what you've done to your face, Ben said, tapping his eye.

If you don't stop playing with that dress, I'm going to rip it right off of you, and we won't be heading for dinner.

Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.

Until I met him today." He turned to Jes. "Who is the forest

That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me." I nodded toward the mess. "And if you knew my life, you'd realize just how freaky that is.

Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming
and they ate children and puppies.

He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.

What do you mean? Leslie's voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them.

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.

Sometimes the only action you can take leads to more trouble. (Honey)

Dragons and legends ... It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

Bonarata was charming, but I couldn't forget or forgive him for

He could have told her that he had no intention of bedding her, but he tried not to lie. Not even to himself.

I like who I am - but there are plenty of men who wouldn't. (Mercy)

He gave me that lazy smile that had always had the power to make my heart beat faster. I was dismayed to see that it still worked.

Fourteen preteen girls, a tableful of werewolves - there were certain monstrous similarities.

Renegade Cantrip agents is our working hypothesis,

To see Charles, the original lone wolf, caught with a foot in the trap of amor
this will amuse me for a while longer, I think.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

It is one of those nondenominational churches so busy not condemning anyone that it has little power to attract a steady congregation.

Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac

That which does not destroy us makes us stronger ...

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

A king who trusts no man is weak.

Scars do not bother me. They are the laurels of the survivor.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," she said, hurt,

A friend in danger is not someone who should be deserted. Safety is not always the right path. (Sylvia)

Why is it that in all the adventure movies the heroine doesn't have to get up and go to work?

Marriage is not as necessary for survival of the species as it used to be, and it has suffered somewhat from the change.

Only you could go to Spokane and get bitten by the one vampire in the whole city

Adam to Mercy

You don't have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.

People who say that vampires don't care about anyone except themselves are mostly right - but sometimes they are very and lethally wrong.

Stupid young girls who get caught alone in the forest fall prey to anything that crosses their paths, be the beast animal, human or shapeshifter.

If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.

I see your fear, they told her, but no harm will come to you by me.

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

I can only speak for myself," I said. "But there are none that I have ever loved who I no longer love.

She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery - boredom.

Love is not necessary for sex.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

She open her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his figures continued playing with out pause.

Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

If she tried anything, she would be sorry. Adam was mine. She had thrown him away, thrown Jesse away - and I had snatched them up. Finders keepers.

Never run from a predator. Even the most behaved of them will have a hard time restraining themselves from chasing after a prey.

Coyote," said Hopi Woman dryly, "doesn't much worry about understanding anything, which is why he understands so much.

Some wounds need to be pricked so they can drain. Others just need to be left alone.

It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others.

I would slay dragons for you," he told her. "I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

I break things, a lot of things, but I don't want one of them to be you.

Never starve a werewolf, or he might ask you to join him for lunch.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

This world has need of song and sword.

Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.

Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

Witches are bitches and they'll burn your britches sure as kittens have itches if you give' em half a chance.

If I ever become a serial murderer, I'll be very careful to kill people in a pattern that centres around a police station - and not my home or work.

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.

Humans, in her experience, were weak and fragile things prone to dying and breeding with about the same frequency.

No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.

Wizards are a secretive lot.

I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.

Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.

If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn't?

After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say of course eating him would work too.

No. just warning him about sleeping with dangerous things. Tigers are rare treasures - and they will eat you and not give it a second thought.

Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.

Forbidden fruit is the sweetest, Warren, my darling.

People who know other people's secrets can't afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.

Thank you for tearing Tim into small Tim bits.

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.

He bit the nape of my neck and I moaned.

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me - not if I could help it.

We're the good guys. That we're scary doesn't mean we're the villains.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?

There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won't hit Charles's mate in front of his father.

There is something about having someone take care of you, even when you don't need it - maybe especially when you don't need it.

I thought you couldn't make it here until morning," I said.
"I hurried.

God help us and keep us from receiving what we deserve

Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopeless a thing as it might have been.

Baking is like washing
the results are equally temporary.

I might be dumb," I told him, putting my nose against his silk tie, "but I'm not that dumb. I've gotcha now and you aren't getting away.

She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.

She's a good person, but she is a weak person, too. She can't take care of anyone else because she's too busy taking care of herself." I

I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?