“I haven't had a lot of good, soft things in my life," he said against my forehead. "Not since my family sent me away. Apart from being your sire and feeling that pull to you, it's that goodness, th...”

“Mama Ginger came calling, to set the alarm on my biological clock. Oh, and to remind me that theres no point to me being a woman if I never have children.Well, if thats true, I wasted a hell of a l...”

“Did I just get psychically pimp-slapped by a little old lady?”

“Most of the funeral stuff is going to be done during daylight hours, I said. Im not even going to be able to attend the burial. Humans get upset when vampires burst into flames right next to them.”

“In a werewolf pack, you cannot interfere with the mate choice of a clan fellow. You cannot intentionally harm that werewolfs chosen mate. You are not, however, required to help that person should h...”

“Most of the funeral stuff is going to be done during daylight hours,” I said. “I’m not even going to be able to attend the burial. Humans get upset when vampires burst into flames right next to them.”

“Whos happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they cant find anything to bitch about.”

“Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.”

“Are you a female dog?""What?" Massie asked. "Why?"”

“I cant remember the moment I was labeled bitch for the first time, but it sure wasnt in the blogosphere of 2008. It was well before the blogosphere, let alone the World Wide Web, existed. The first...”

“She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed...”

“Self-Help books are for bitchesss”

“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.”