“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.”

“Me neither, Shane put in. Homie dont play that.I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all, Amelie said.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Now we're in the middle of a three-sided vampire war. Which would be an awesome video game, but I'm really not interested in playing for real. I like my reset buttons.”

“She needs you for more than just protection. It's how it works. You want the strong girl, you understand that she's with you because she wants to be. Not because she has to be. You know that, right?”

“In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me.”