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I WAS DONE. No. That wasn't quite right. I was a hundred miles past done, cresting into the Fjords of Nope, heading for Fuck-That-Ville.

You know what, honey? You're right. It's time to change my approach. Can you give me one of those nice concussion grenades?

You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.

Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.

Sometimes I miss the dark.

We have to burn brightly. We can't burn forever

The mountain was as powerful as the tide, just...in a different way.

Truly, you are as generous as you are violent.

Parthenogenesis means never having your mother tell you to stop doing that or you'll go blind.

Just believe me when I say you can't trust anything you read on the Internet until you confirm it.

There's nothing more stubborn than youth, with the possible exception of old age.

You're like a horoscope in horticulture.

Better cranky and alive than cheerful and dead.

You want to go back, and so you hold on to the habits you learned while you were traveling, because it's better that admitting the journey's over.

I didn't love him, but there was a time when I might have, and that was enough to move me forward. I needed to be needed. This wasn't the right way.

There's always time for tea.
Lily

First, check your ammunition. Then, check your escape routes. Finally, check your hair. - Frances Brown

Hell hath no fury like a centuries-old organisation of zealots scorned.

Lindworms are a sign of a healthy ecosystem," I said, straightening. "Now let's get out of here before the healthy ecosystem eats us.

Never rush anyone who's personally witnessed continental drift.

Let's go commit senseless acts of science.

I might get arrested, but I wasn't likely to get dissected. This is my life.

Expectations are dangerous things. They've probably killed more people than any creature or cryptid you care to name.

Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality

She's more of a 'standing really still and hoping nothing eats her' sort of girl.

This was the sort of situation that called for a certain amount of terror.

Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.

Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives.

If anyone was going to get themselves murdered to guarantee they would remain the center of attention, it would be him.

Now, if you will excuse me, a dead woman is trying to convince me to drink something that comes in layers.

I may be a composite of multiple dead people, but I'm not stupid.

I kissed her like she was my Annabel Lee, and in some ways, in some places in my heart, I think that I'm kissing her still.

Actually, yes, I would say something like 'there may be bears here.' Bears are not a pleasant surprise for most people.

A pie?" Now she just sounded dubious. "Was it an evil pie?" "Yeah. Yeah, it was.

Tybalt's what we call 'Cait Sidhe' - the fairy cats. Which explains the attitude. And the eyes."

"Meow," said Tybalt, deadpan.

Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn't broken.

I don't like parties. Someone always tries to assassinate someone I actually like, and there are never enough of those little stuffed mushroom caps.

But sometimes the pieces fall together the way they want to, and you can't change the story; all you can do is try to ride it out.

Verity didn't mind bogeymen - they were pretty nice, mostly, if you didn't let them talk you into doing anything you weren't supposed to do - but

Love is a powerful thing; it makes us all equals by making us briefly, beautifully human.

Everything has a cost, October; remember that. It may be a long time before the bill comes due, but everything has a cost.
Luidaeg

Sometimes ripping away the bandages was what allowed the soul to finally heal.

Going to straight-up fucking murder you, and drink a latte out of your skull." "You forgot to mention poison," I said, taking

It wasn't easy, but like I've always said, if you can't lie to yourself, who can you lie to? The food

Istas, please don't eat my mice. They're very important to me, and besides, it's rude to eat anything you've been introduced to.

Lying to you would be a mistreatment of what that love means.

Mayhem now, please.

I dislike the dead returning to life," said Etienne, his shoulders slumping again. "It's untidy and inappropriate.

She could have flirted forever. It was just the things that came after flirting that she had no interest in.

Humanity has always had a flair for guilt by association.

We don't teach you how to dwell. We also don't teach you how to forget. We teach you how to move on.

This was always the difficult part, back when she'd been at her old school: explaining that "asexual" and "aromantic" were different things.

If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.

Toby, please stop punching Etienne in the head. It's not helping.

You know, just once, I want a beautiful woman to exploit me for something other than my magic and dangerous political connections.

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

I'm an idiot. All I could do was hope that I wasn't already too late. Sometimes hope is the cruelest joke of all.

It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.

It's better to act than it is to react. Acting gets you in trouble. Reacting all too frequently gets you dead.

We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.

There was peace in stillness, a serenity that couldn't be found anywhere else in this hot, fast, often terrible world.

Call me a sucker for a man who had a great ass who knows how to bake a macaroni casserole and can tolerate six hours of Sesame Street a day.

I would greatly prefer it if you didn't put a bullet into my brain; it would complicate my plans for life, most of which involve not being dead.

It's easy to say that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few when no one's holding a gun to your head.

That probably wasn't the smartest thing you've ever done. Points for style, I guess. Points off for being too stupid to live.

Because they're the wrong colors, right? Somebody else's rainbow.

I have a swizzle stick shaped like a little monkey," announced Rose. "Let's help the dead man with his problem.

Call me paranoid. I'm frequently right.

Is there any time in your life when you do not feel the need for caffeine?"
"Sure. Sometimes I'm asleep.

Don't underestimate him just because he's a fool,

Death was precious. That didn't change the fact that life was limited.

This, too, was part of losing Fran: watching all the things she'd made better with her presence fade blacker than they'd been before she came along.

There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

You know, just once, I'd like my life to be all about spending Sunday afternoon in my pajamas,

She can stop traffic with a smile. I can stop traffic, too. I just tend to do it by crashing my car into something.

Use when you're piping the virus into the rats,

Boring' is not a virtue.

Hail!" chorused the mice. "Hail the High Priest of Goddammit Eat Something Already!

The petty-minded fools here think surgery and butchery are the same thing.

Don't be careful. Be courageous. Don't be safe. Be strong. Don't be a victim. Be the one who makes it home. - Evelyn Baker

Grandma Alice insists he's alive, and my mother raised me never to contradict anyone who regularly carries grenades).

Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying.
Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.

I've done tangos with men who thought my ass was a squeaky toy.

The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?

That's basically the cherry on top of this week's sundae of suck.

I just feel like we're starting to interfere on a level that's sort of ... extreme." "But that's what heroes do.

In aeternum felicitas vindactio. Defending happily ever after.

She was a woman with something to protect. That made her more dangerous than they could ever have suspected.

You dead, or I need to hit you again? You know what, fuck it. I'm just going to hit you again.

'Mira Grant' is actually my pseudonym. And 'Seanan' is pronounced 'SHAWN-in.'

The greatest joy is the joy of discovery. Followed closely by the joy of a discovery that doesn't kill you. - Enid Healy

Oh, her? She had raised a hand against us, and willingly entered our circle. We ate her.

She was a story, not an epilogue.

They are as intelligent as their shapeshifting mates, because smart sharks is exactly what the ocean needed.

Every time I think my family has plumbed the depths of stupidity, somebody goes and finds a goddamn shovel." - Jane Harrington-Price

I have never wanted to punch a highway in the face as badly as I do right now.

Hope can be cruel, but giving up is worse,

There's nothing wrong with making a last stand. Just make sure you bring enough grenades to share with the entire class. - Alice Healy

How quickly they grow apart, when there is something to be superior about.

I feel like a giant Barbie."
"I do not become romantically involved with plastic people," said Tybalt dryly.