“Sure, she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. What could go wrong?Michaels eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.Besides everything, I mean, she said.”

“Claire was struggling through last summers 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 ...”

“Shane kissed her one more time, lightly and softly, and fluffed her hair back from her face. To be continued, he said. I hate cliff-hangers. Blame Eve.”

“Claire found herself staring at his feet, which were in bunny slippers. Myrnin looked down. "What?" he asked. "They're quite comfortable." He lifted on to look at it, and the ears wobbled in the ai...”

“Some people come to Morganville and collapse, Michael said as he put the car in motion. Ive seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and justbloom. Youre one of those. Claire didnt ...”

“Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create.”

“Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.”

“It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife at your friend's head and walk away.”

“Samuel," Amelie said, and her voice was low and quiet and warm. She bent closer to him. "Samuel. Come back to me."His eyes opened, and they were all pupil. Scary owl eyes. Claire bit her lip and th...”

“Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.”

“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.”

“Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information? Bones asked, getting back to the subject. You to take me, she replied at once. Not gonna happen! I spat, squ...”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”