"Some people are born to fandom, others have fandom thrust upon them."

"He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety-and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked the latter, like leaves covering a snare. You didn't notice the steel jaws until they were impaled in your flesh, and by then it was already far too late to run."

"The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all the way at the bottom."

"Without ethics, science would be cruelty."

"A geas was a contract with the goddess of Fate. Sometimes one was born indentured, other times it was bestowed upon one as a curse. Because if one did not fulfill the terms of one's geas, one died. It was old magic, the magic of the gods, spoken in the tongues of those who controlled the dragons-and it was supposed to be extinct."

"We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are."

"Hello, Mrs. Tran...I have David's homework. And if you ever want to see it again, you'll pay me the two million dollars I asked for."

"Ignorance must be a fun place to live, my parents seem to vacation there year-round."

"You must be a blast on long car rides."Oh, I am. You haven't experienced fun until you try to fuck in the front seat of a Civic."

"You are fifty different kinds of twisted.""Only fifty? Val, you wound me."

"Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it."

"What do you want to do with your life, then? is often the question I'm asked.To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference."

"I wasn't a complete bastard. If she liked to think she saw good in me, if she wanted to take credit for it, I'd let her. She deserved that much."

"If evil had a laugh, she thought it would sound like his."

"Isn't that just typical. You're either asking for it, or having it forced upon you without your consent. Who decided women always have to be passive in sex?"

"Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy."

"She seemed like the kind of woman who would fall in love with the sky."

"Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die."

"He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark."

"I can take care of myself, I said hotly."Darlin, you don't even know how to pleasure yourself."

"I can't believe it. He is sporting a bona fide erection in the middle of class. All because of me.In history you learn about entire kingdoms crumbling into chaos because of a woman-or, in some cases, multiple women. I smile at Professor Delacroix, putting an extra bit of swing into my hips as I sashay out the door. I'm beginning to see just how easy it is to bring a man to his knees with a few flashes of bare skin, and the whispered promise of hot, sweaty sex."

"My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me "a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams."

"You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception."

"Hatred is about possession. It is all-consuming, cruel, and vainglorious. When love is allowed to fester, it becomes twisted and corrupt; it settles deep in the heart...and metastasizes, sending its dark roots through the body to raze all that stands in its way. Love is chaste and pure. Love is banal....No, hatred has infinitely more possibilities."

"Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair."

"Life doesn't come with an eraser. Experiences leave their mark, for better or for worse. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never been hurt."

"In her view, there were threeoptions for a woman. If you were beautiful, you got married. If youwere ugly, you became a nun. If you were beautiful and stupid, orugly and dishonorable, you became a whore."

"What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?"

"You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority."

"For what is magic, but passion freed from reason?"

"I bask in that sympathy because it's nice to have somebody who cares, even if it's the wrong person for the wrong reasons."

"I'm more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic."

"That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast."

"Solus walked over to the young brown-haired man and grabbed him by the front of his shirt, ignoring the look of panic he received in return. "You can call me Solus." His golden eyes trailed meaningfully down the mortal's body before he added, softly, "I've been told it's easier to scream."

"One doesn't need to be taught fear when one is the hunted."

"Butt holes are like a one-way street, they were made the way they were for a reason."

"She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body."

"Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest."

"You think I'm gorgeous?"When I look at you, all I can think about are the the different ways I'd like to fuck you."So that's a yes then? she said shyly."No, darlin. It's an I-hope-you-weren't-planning-on-sleeping-alone-tonight."

"You don't find the concept of illicit love at all engaging?"The concept, maybe. But in literature? That's like ordering a glass of tap water at a bar."

"Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet, they were that much more dangerous because of it."

"Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey?"

"Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That's how it works. One moment she is your closest confidant, whispering the secrets of the universe into your ear; the next, she is your vilest oppressor-and once her ears close to your plights you are well and truly screwed."

"Too bad. Game over. Insert new fucking quarter."

"When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive."

"Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time."

"Fairytales by nature only talk about the victors. The survivors. Nobody speaks about what happens to those who failed, except in the abstract: as cautionary tales to guide others onto the path to success. How many brave knights fell to the dragon before he was slayed by the noble prince? How many children burned to a crisp and eaten before the wicked witch received her due? These stories are lost, but the lesson behind them is not: it is not enough to be merely pure and good."

"I'm pretty sure those're my balls you've found, I said to the man searching my pants. "You gonna count 'em out now? Because I'll save you the trouble. There's two."

"What is your collective GPA for this year?"Not as high as I'd like it to be.Freud steepled his fingers in front of his mouth. "What about your parents?"I don't know. They haven't been in school for a while."

"I want to be your last thought at night, and your first taste at dawn."