“Now," said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve.”

“Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'It was the perfect motto for Morganville.”

“That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.”

“Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane”

“Scoot over, man. I don't like you that much." "Dick. That's not what you said last night.""Bite me.”

“Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given...”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”