“...I supplied in a tone so saccharine that it should have tipped him off that his testicular health was in serious peril.”

“Ophelia was beating some poor underling for not knowing her arse from the sparse collection of cells between her ears.”

“Dont tell them hes upstairs , I commanded my brain. Tell them he moved to Pacoima to start a commune for vegetarian vampires. Tell them hes looking into getting a sex-change operation and renaming ...”

“Sophie was a walking truth serum. If she was touching bare skin, she could yank the truth out of you like a loose tooth. Id spent several unpleasant hours in her company during the Councils screeni...”

“Did you just mentally pistol whip that guy, with his own gun? Nice, Amber. I would have just killed him.”

“Getting up from the bed, Dominick approaches me at a slow predatory pace. Once again, I cannot move my feet.”

“Goddamn it, do it yourself. Youre five hundred years old and you cant use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?”