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"Nothing here is like fighting vampires,' I said. 'It's more like fighting smoke. I think I liked it when I had an actual enemy to face.''Oh, don't worry, you have some. We just haven't seen them yet,' Jesse said. 'But we will. And wham we do...' She showed fang, just a flash; anybody who happened to catch a glimpse would have doubted their sanity, especially since the teeth disappeared in a flash. 'When we do, we'll settle this Morganville style."

"I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan."

"On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth."

"Never hesitate for a second to separate yourself from those who speak ill of other people's success, because sooner or later when you become successful, they would surely start speaking ill of you and become your biggest enemies."

"Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful."

"Forgiveness and Blame share an apartment, but not for long, because Blame can't live with Forgiveness, and Forgiveness can't live with Blame."
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"He clearly suffers from some past traumas too, so hopefully he'll understand why I was untruthful to him about mine."

"The male tax?'Yeah. The tax that men have to pay for not having to menstruate every month. Or risk getting pregnant. Or deal with the physically stronger sex in a macho world Women have to put up with all that stuff, so the least we men can do is pay the male tax and get the tab."

"My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well."

"I got it! I got it! Heeb declared triumphantly. Evan stopped in the middle of his kitchenette to hear Heeb's idea. 'Sex in the Title.'Yeah, that's what you've been saying I need.'No, that's the title: 'Sex in the Title.''You want me to call my novel 'Sex in the Title?''Yeah. Isn't it great?"

"Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity."

"At one point, I began to think that I had a divine doorman. Lenny was the most unlikely incarnation of God I could imagine, and yet, I kept drifting irresistibly towards this absurd conclusion. Despite my staunchly atheistic inclinations, I couldn't explain Lenny any other way. But eventually I came to my senses and realized that he was just one of those game show freaks with an encyclopedic memory. That didn't make him God, did it? Would God proclaim so regularly how much he likes Patsy's Pizza?"

"What's SQ? asked Evan.'Sexual Quotient.'What's that?'Basically, it's your odds of getting laid. Everyone has an SQ. just like everyone has an IQ.'I've never heard that term before.'That's because I made it up.'That figures. Finally applying your actuarial skills to what really matters, eh?"

"Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him - perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from me (and never reciprocated my nosiness with personal questions of his own with me)."

"You have to take this with you too, she said, opening a box and holding up a silver necklace with the Syriac cross (a crucifix with a budding flower shape on each tip) dangling from it. 'My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you're leaving and will need something that always connects you to your roots, but also because tonight we remember her."

"Isn't it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?"
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