Quotes from Nancy Warren

In my day, secret societies were exactly that, secret. None of this showing up on the front page of the newspaper looking drunk and disorderly.

Imagine how many sweaters I could knit for the price of your golf membership.

I smiled. Arthur was glowing like…if not a kid in a candy store, then one in a museum's gift store with a hundred-dollar voucher.

one of the truest rules of teaching, he thought. When you teach someone else, you always learn.

Every noise, whether inside or out, had me opening my eyes wide to search out any possible danger until exhaustion finally claimed me and I slept.

Teddy Lamont couldn't be more gay if he turned up wearing rainbows and carrying a pride flag.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

needed comforting after discovering my boyfriend of two years, Todd, had stuck his salami in someone else's sandwich. I referred to him now as my ex-boyfriend 'The Toad.

sex, cross-dressing

I had believed I was coming to a sleepy town in the middle of nowhere, and what I had discovered was a murder right in my bookshop and then a nest of vampires who ran a late-night book club.

The atmosphere was so dull, the cactus I brought into work died. I was certain it died of boredom.

It tended to upset customers when they discovered the supposedly dead former proprietor of the shop wandering around.

You meet in the shop? But what do you do here?" They looked at me as though I'd said something very stupid. Rafe and Sylvia answered together, "We knit.

I'd hope Dad could talk her out of going along on her daughter's honeymoon. Somebody had to.

This is such a cozy shop, it makes me want to take up knitting." "You should. It's a very relaxing hobby." I don't know how I kept a straight face, saying things like that. Knitting was a diabolical exercise in frustration.

I wondered if, now that she was a vampire, she had forgotten her connection to my world, the world of humans and of witches. I turned to Rafe. He was a sensible, intelligent vampire. Surely he could see what was going on here. "Rafe. Tell them this isn't fair. I need more time to prepare." He shrugged his elegant shoulders. "I never get involved in witch matters.

Iris neatened up the rows of mugs. A newish collection caught her eye. "Is this supposed to be Snow White and the seven dwarfs?" "I think so. Though Snow White looks like she melted a little bit." "So did the little guys. Look, here's Sleazy. And Dumpy." She began to line them up. "And Dumpier." Iris pulled

Toad is single again!!!!" Jenn also loved the exclamation mark the way some people love Margaritas or chocolate.

Thirty-three is not old." Dosana was all of twenty-two so Iris was not inclined to believe she knew what she was talking about. "Jesus was thirty three when he died." "But not of old age.

She thought even his wrist was sexy.