Quotes from Rachel Caine

It's the hardest lesson for someone who's been taught guns are the answer . . . that they're only the answer to a pure, simple, direct set of problems: killing someone. I

My, if I didn't loathe her so much, I'd admire her.

Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?

Expendable was not the word I was looking to hear to boost my morale, but whatever.

Don't worry...Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming.

I never did have much, so having it rough came with the territory. I was conditioned for it.

If she'd ever had any doubts that she loved him, really loved him, she knew now. It was easy to love somebody when love was happy, but when it was hard, when it meant facing things you feared...that was different. He'd done it for her, many times. And now she had to do it for him.

You've been the least useless apprentice I've ever had.

Really? Claire said, and couldn't help but smile. That's what creeps you out. Waxing. You can take on vampires and draug and killers, but you're afraid of a little chest-hair pulling?

If she were any friendlier, she'd be giving you a lapdance right now.

But the past never leaves us. It's in every breath, every cell, every second. I know that now.

I do hope nobody else here has any other surprises planned, because if you so much as think about harming one another, I will oblige them. This is neutral ground. Violators will be gruesomely and violently shown the error of their ways. Clear?

No, no era una superheroína, pero era otra cosa. Era una persona... con recursos.

Patrick walked in dressed in an utterly unmentionable bathrobe. I was pretty sure that Disney wouldn't have approved of what their cartoon characters were doing on that dark blue satin background. On the other hand, I was really glad he had on the bathrobe.

It's not the hair. You just--you're something else, Claire. It's like when all the rest of us don't know where to go, you ... just go. You're not afraid.

But I've kept them safe from the wolves, at least: the most basic and important job of a parent, to keep her offspring from being eaten by predators. Even the ones I can't see.

I've bowed to you for too long, and if I continue to do it, we will all suffer.

at least this way we're safe in a room with a door that locks. And the sign says they have HBO. That stands for Horrible Bloody Ohmygod. Eve said. which is the way they kill you. When you think you're safe.

Don't play to your strengths," Jess told her. "Strengthen your weaknesses.

I'm as good a Catholic as you, Jess said. I just don't hold with making the world into copies of what I like.

Perhaps one day I'd be made a saint—the patron saint of fools and lovers, if those terms were not exactly the same.

It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.

Wake me for the massacre, okay? Don't want to miss it.

Better to run toward something than run from something.