"I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing."

"Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!''Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!"

"I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not."

"The price of living seems to always be death."

"I think if you had been born a boy, perhaps you would have been satisfied with what the world offered you. That is how we are alike. We saw everything that was not ours, and we hungered. Do not lose that hunger. You will always have to fight for everything. Even when you already have it, you will have to keep fighting to maintain it. You will have to be more ruthless, more brutal, more everything. Any weakness will undo everything you have accomplished. They will see any crack as evidence that they were right that a woman cannot do what you do."

"You're crazy, he hisses. 'Too true."

"Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.A primal growl signaled Miss Lynn getting over her shock at being thus addressed. She lunged forward; Jack deftly rolled off the bench, jumping up out of her reach.'Goodness, I didn't expect you to be quite this enthusiastic about my advances. If I don't play hard to get, how will I ever know whether or not you respect me?"

"Probably you should stay out of my head. It's not a friendly place."

"Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing."

"A brother, she said, her voice soft.The baby started to cry, a weak, garbled sound that worried the nurse. Lada's scowl deepened. She slapped a dimpled hand over his mouth. The nurse pulled him away quickly, and Lada looked up, face contorted in rage.'Mine! she shouted.It was her first word.The nurse laughed, shocked, and lowered the baby once more. Lada glared at him until he stopped crying. Then, apparently satisfied, she toddled out of the room."

"They're crystal blue, a shade that shouldn't exist on the human body, I shade I immediately crave, a shade that makes my heart beat a little bit faster--almost as if I recognize it. I want to steal it, paint it, throw it into every room I ever decorate. It's the most perfect blue I've ever seen. Even from this distance his eyes are simply remarkable."

"Why must I always be a man's servant?' Lada demanded. 'If anything, I should be partners with the devil, not his servant."

"I guess I can't blame him for feeling bitter. Going from being the terror of Bulgarian nights to a janitor would kinda suck."

"Tasers are a one-size-fits-all paranormal butt-kicking option. Mine's pink withrhinestones."

"Fabulous' Jack said, reaching down and plucking a crimson flower. A small scream sounded from it as he severed the stem. He smiled maliciously, then started stomping with abandon through the beds of blossoms, a chorus of tinny, shrill screams punctuating every step."

"The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho."

"Cole gets up and then says, 'Adam. Five texts. I can read them to you. He pauses. 'Unless they're personal. I roll my eyes. 'Not that it's any of your business, but I'm pretty sure he's desperately in love with my sister. Cole snorts. 'He's crazy. 'He'd have to be, right?"

"Why does IPCA use them if they're evil? he asked, confused.'They aren't evil. They aren't even really immoral, per se. They're amoral. They don't operate on the same level that we do. For a faerie, the only thing that matters is what they want. That's their good. Anything else is superfluous. So like how they kidnap people, not a big deal-they want the person, they take him. Or killing someone. If you live forever, how much does one mortal life matter in the scheme of things? When you exist outside time, cutting off the forty years a person has left is a non-issue. They don't even notice."

"But there are many ways to be powerful. There is power in stillness. There is power in watching, waiting, saying the right thing at the right time to the right person. There is power in being a woman---oh yes, power in these bodies you gaze upon with derision."

"Where did you find that one?''I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess.''They must be able to sense a kindred spirit.''Your one to talk. Don't you have more hordes of the undead to lead in a glorious revolution?''Zombies not undead. There's a fine distinction. And no. Right now I'm scouting new talent. The glorious revolution comes tomorrow."

"What's the point in hating something if you aren't proactive?"

"I'll be fine. I'm always fine."

"Sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date."

"If you are too weak to stand being hit and too stupid to avoid it, then you deserve more pain."

"Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless."

"We change the future with every choice we make."

"Because I am in love with you. Because I cannot be around you for fear you will finally see what is written across my heart. Because the pain of you is one I cannot bear."

"They are soldiers. They depend upon routine, and anything out of the ordinary will give them pause. And they are men. They hate to be insulted, but they love to hear others mocked. And they are fools, because they cannot imagine that a woman alone in the woods would be a threat."

"I don't want to think about things like normal and safe, things I can't have."

"You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tipout of our favor?She had no answer."

"Everyone here is insane. I am the insanest of the insane."

"A true conversion is always only between a man and God."

"People respond to kindness. They trust a smile more than a promise that you will leave them choking on their own blood."

"I wonder what it would be like to be with a boy who blushes when he looks at my skin."

"I hate the vamp jobs. They think they're so suave. It's not enough for them to slaughter and eat you like a zombie would. No, they want to be all sexy, too. And trust me: vampires? Not. Sexy."

"If you fail to report within the next 12 hours. you will be terminated. If you attack any humans, you will be terminated. If you attempt to remove the tracking device, you will be terminated. We look forward to working with you."

"I let my face go blank and nodded slowly. 'Yes. The trolls. Back. With me. Cannot form. Complete sentences.' I shook my head. 'Yeah, so not happening."

"I wish many things, but I wish I had been able to tell you that I love you, in so many more ways than that word can convey in Alben."

"I'm still afraid to sleep-too many ghosts peering creeping condemning."

"I should curl up in a ball and cry. Instead i think about everything in the whole entire world that makes me angry - There is a lot, oh, there is a lot - and I start singing Justin Bieber at the top of my lungs."

"I chose him. If I chose him, he had to be the right choice. I wouldn't love him if it weren't right."

"Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country."

"Freedom was a foot away when they turned back to me. The one who kept speaking, a tall vamp with a handsome curly-haired glamour, shook his head. 'Sorry.' He bared his fangs in an apologetic grin. 'We're glad you aren't what's hunting us, but we're no friends of IPCA. And we're all very, very, thirsty.''What, no flirting?' I asked, trying to buy time. 'Aren't you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there--they'd be so disappointed.' I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. 'Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren't suave."

"Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep."

"Lada made her face stone, her heart a mountain. A mountain that would never be pierced to let cold, clear water flow. 'Nothing holds me here."

"There are other ways to beat someone than with fists."