Quotes from Rachel Caine

When giants fought, ants were crushed.

My vampire boss, who would like to maybe be my boyfriend, just dropped in to tell me he was running away because Morganville's too dangerous.

You know what I mean. And by the way, you should slow down." I sighed. "You're kidding me. This is coasting. This is little old lady speed." "NASCAR drivers would have heart attacks. Slow down before we get a ticket." "Chicken.

No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments.

Shane it came back to her in a dizzy rush how he'd stopped her on the way into this place, in the faint dawn of light 'i wnt you to promise me one thing. promise me you'll marry me. Not now. Someday.

The world doesn't end, Claire. In the morning, the survivors start to build again. It's way of things. The human way.

He's named you heir apparent to the Apocalypse. Congratulations.

It's part of the marriage vows. Didn't you read the fine print? To have and to harass.

She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.

Home, he repeated. Home is where the heart is. Why don't you leave yours here? I'll take very good care of it.

Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.

If Myrnin pokes his crazy head up before then, call me and try to keep him, you know, stable.' 'Is he UNstable?' 'I don't know, how can I tell? You're the crazy whisperer!' She had a point. Claire couldn't help but smile about that.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense. No one expected me to live, and therefore, I did. Always.

EVE:bite me chillie boy

Myrnin, she said. He didn't show up at the rendezvous. And? Dude's crazy, in case you didn't notice recently. He probally went of the chase butterflys or something

The unknowns wasn't full of terrors, it was full of undiscovered advantages. Better to run toward something than from something.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it's sadly temporary in its effects.

I gambled for the soul of the Library. And I lost.

my boyfriend is a rock god baby (and not kiss-of-death(sorry))

I'm worried he's going to . . . do something crazy. He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants, Evesaid. Define crazy. Claire closed her eyes. Okay. I think he wants to put my brain in a jar and wire it intothe machine.

And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It's not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream and couldn't stop.

There were things out there in the world, things that vampires feared, and now those things were here. She was only seconds out of a very light, fitful sleep, but she knew that the nightmares had followed her effortlessly right into the real world. The draug. They weren't vampires; they were something else, something that moved through water, formed out of it, dragged vampires down to a slow and awful death.

Harte sent one of her revived men after him, and Pat sent him back in boxes.