“Are you going to tell me what that was about? Adam asked as we went back upstairs.Sometime, I told him. When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.”

“All right," Mom said. She gave Samuel a stern look,"Now I don't know what's going on between you and my daughter and Adam Hauptman-""Neither do we," I mutteredSamuel grinned "We have it pretty well...”

“I dont know who you think you are my mothers voice was low and dangerous but if you dont get out of my way right this instant, it wont matter.Adam was the Alpha werewolf in charge of the local pa...”

“My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, And to think I was always worried that you didnt have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.”

“One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.”

“Yes, I told him. I think the guy playing the Pirate King was awesome.He stopped where he was.What? I asked, frowning at the big smile on his face.I didnt say I liked the Pirate King, he told me.Oh....”

“...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.”

“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when its dark”

“She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.”