“You never know what the vodka will bring, I laughed.Oh, like the time you caught my hair on fire at the candlelight party in Mels basement! That was the craziest thing that I ever had happen to me....”

“I swallowed hard and said as calmly as possible, Theres been a murder. I dont know what happened. The address is two-two-zero three Devonshire Court.”

“Im suddenly not hungry, Shane, said, his face ashen. Noah, you go get the note. Be careful not to touch anything else. Dont step in the blood.”

“I second that. This is all so creepy. I feel like we are in some sort of strange movie, forget an episode of Buffy. We have passed into official horror movie territory.-Nessa and Cora”

“I could have sworn I just heard him thinking about the proposal he had planned. Red roses and champagne waiting at the restaurant, but maybe I imagined it.I frowned in turn. You could read his thou...”

“Sounds like this ability stuff went okay with Shane after all. I had no idea that he would react like that, Noah said.Yeah, well, it helps when he wants to rip Nessas clothes off, I said grinning.H...”

“I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of...of what? Light? Life? Cheese?”

“Oh my gosh, he smells good, like some exotic but comforting spice, nutmeg or cardamom. Slowly Damian lowers his head to mine and I think my chest might explode, my heart is tap-dancing so qui”

“So, what's up with you and Damian?" Helena”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”

“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”