"I've never paid any attention to time. Dancer says I've enjoyed a luxury most people never have. He hates clocks and watches and everything that has to do with time. He says people already have too many lost days and that most folks live in the past or the future but never the present, always saying stuff like 'I'm unhappy because 'X' happened to me yesterday, or I'll be happy again when 'Y' happens to me tomorrow. He says time is the ultimate villain."

"Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them."

"Barrons: 'He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off.'Mac: 'The child?' I gasped."

"I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension."

"It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places."

"When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly.''And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in."

"A lamb in a city of wolves."

"I can see you are a fine lady, but this boy is randy as a goat around you and it's plain to see. If he seeks the joys of wedded bliss, he can wed you. Without a weddin' he'll be havin' no bliss."

"Driving a hot car is a lot like sex to me, or a lot like I keep thinking sex should be: A total body experience, overwhelming, to all the senses, taking you places you've never been, packing a punch that leaves you breathless and touches your soul. The Viper was way more satisfying then my last boyfriend."

"Strength wasn't about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it."

"I love books, they're in my blood."

"How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?"

"He had a come-and-get-me-baby-I'm-pure-trouble-and-you're-gonna-love-it kind of attitude."

"I am going to love you now, slow and sweet, but when you come, I'm going to f*** you the way I need to. The way I've been dreaming about since the moment I saw you."

"It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for."

"It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all."

"Don't lose yourself in anger, Mac. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you - only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing."

"Things we had, like respect and trust, but also freely expressed desires and accountability to whatever degree it took to make both people happy. It took work, a willingness to fight passionately and fairly--out of bed, not just in it--commitment and honesty. It took waking up and saying each day, 'I hold this man sacred and always will. He's my sun, moon, and stars.' It took letting the other person in; a thing I'd stopped doing. It took being unafraid to ask for what you wanted, to put yourself on the line, to risk it all for love."

"Sit,' Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. 'Let's hear the rest of it. You can kill him later.'~Chloe to Dageus."

"Friends don't build cages for each other."

"Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did."

"My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said 'our world. He always said 'your world. But he called Dublin his city. Merely because he'd been in it so long? Or had Barrons, like me, been beguiled by her tawdry grace, fallen for her charm and colorful dualities?I looked around 'my bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not?"

"I make a new discovery that totally blows, dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks."

"Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky."

"I think sex with him might undo my essential cellular cohesion."

"I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation."

"Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer."

"And there you have it...if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life."

"Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets."

"There are only two things to worry about in life: either you're free or you're not. If you're free, there's nothing to worry about. If you're not, you kick the shit out of everything around you until you are."

"I see how he feels about his world and I want to be one of the parts he prizes. I want to be worth fighting for. Worth the same kind of effort he puts into the things that matter to him. Like Dani.'I don't tell her no human matters to the boss like Dani."

"She loves. And she doesn't know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces."

"You loved me.It wasn't a question, but he answered it readily. 'I do. More than life. My heart. I didn't just pick a sweet turn of phrase to name you, but spoke from my soul when I named you thus. Without my heart I couldn't live. And I couldn't breathe without you.'Are you a man who has more than one heart?'Nay. Only this one. But it's bitter and dark now from the pain I've brought you."

"Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will do so.''Like yourself?''Yes Most of my kind have no fondness for solitude. Those who walk alone are not to be trusted.''Really,' she said dryly. 'Except for me,' he amended, with a faint, insouciant grin."

"You both talk too much, the kid says. 'Shut up. Don't make me tell you again.We shut up, which I find hysterically funny."

"You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!"

"And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it."

"I must be dreaming. Bring that sweet ass over here and I'll show you what God made women and well-hung Scotsmen for."

"When you were too young and naA ve to see the risks, I incurred your wrath to protect you. Scream at me for it if you must. Thank me for it when you finally grow up."

"Grief shared was grief lessened."

"Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn't mean to. And I didn't kill her, kill her.'Oh, I see. As long as you didn't kill her, kill her, then that's okay."

"Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing."

"If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?"

"Sex either blows your fucking mind, or it's not good enough."

"I'm the one who will always watch over you. Always be there to fuck you back to your senses when you need it, the one who will never let you die. I pull my shirt over my head and kick off my shoes. 'What more could a woman ask?"

"Women fight differently from men. You couldn't get me to hurt a woman's breasts for anything. I know how tender my own are when I'm PMSing. Besides, we feed babies with them."

"Attitude shapes reality."

"Missing Alina was worse than a terminal illness. At least when you were terminal you knew the pain was going to end eventually. But there was no light at the end of my tunnel. Grief was going to devour me, day into night, night into day, and although I might feel like I was dying from it, might even wish I was, I never would. I was going to have to walk around with a hole in my heart forever. I was going to hurt for my sister until the day I died. If you don't know what I mean or you think I'm being melodramatic, then you've never really loved anyone."

"Why did you laugh right before you lost consciousness.'Death's an adventure. I lived big. Rigor mortis makes your face stick. So, who knew how to thaw me?'Death's an insult.'At least an affront, I agree."

"It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human spirit in the highest regard. Like the body, it struggles to repair itself. As cells fight off infection and conquer illness, the spirit, too, has remarkable resilience. It knows when it is harmed, and it knows she the harm is too much to bear. If it deems the injury too great, the spirit cocoons the wound, in the same fashion that the body forms a cyst around infection, until the time comes that it can deal with it."