Quotes from Rachel Caine

Library rules the world, son. Best to have a seat at the table

Rough company," Dario said. "Unsuitable for an innocent flower like you." "You sound like my uncle. One can be innocent and not be ignorant, after all.

I think, is a maddening thing to say on so many levels. As if the Internet is a fantasy world, inhabited by imaginary people. As if we're ordinary people in the first place. And most of all, it's such a young male thing to say, this automatic assumption of safety. Women, even girls of Lanny's age, don't think that way. Parents don't. Older people don't. It reveals a certain blind, entitled ignorance to how dangerous the world really is.

You expect me to do everything for you?' ' No. Just dress me. Please.

It wasn't her fault

When you're a new mother, you're just in a fog of hormones and exhaustion most of the time.

Stay where I am? Jesus Christ, what choice do I have? This house is twenty-five hundred square feet of tomb. I'm not alive. I'm buried alive.

one thing I know about people from deep personal experience: they're happy to jump on the hate train if it makes them feel like fucking heroes.

Shut up, Squirtle. Don't you have nerd things to do?

Rely on the internet for how you look at the world, though, and you'll see the worst side of people represented far too much.

Connor already has anxiety issues. Lanny acts out on a regular basis. None of us is whole anymore.

What time is it? Three a.m. Michael's making a snack. You want anything? Um...no. Thanks. She slid off the couch and then stood there like an idiot, unwilling to leave because he was still smiling and...she liked it. Who won? Which game? Oh. I guess I was asleep for a while. Don't worry. We didn't let the zombies get you. This time, his smile was positively wicked. Claire felt it like a hot blanket all over her skin.

Not a vampire, just a man, and that made him scary in whole different ways.

The trick to doing the impossible, I've found, is to simply never think past what is at your fingertips. Do the thing in front of you. Then the next. Then the next. In such ways have men built the pyramids, or climbed mountains, or raced to the moon on rockets.

Out of nowhere, he remembered something his father had told him when he was just a child. When all the world is a lock, boy, you don't make a key. You become a key.

Homeschooling is still a thing, isn't it?" And it would have been an easy answer, too. I'd considered it seriously, many times, but the paperwork took ages, and until recently we'd always been on the move. Besides, I want my kids to be socialized. To be part of the normal world.

Taking someone's will, someone's freedom...it kills the heart, and then the soul.

Maybe Thomas had been right in his observation that geniuses and Obscurists had something in common.

The formula has been wiped completely from servers, backups, everywhere.

And you look weak as a kitten.' 'Do I?' Myrnin asked, and smiled slowly. It had a sharp edge of lunacy to it. He made a purring sound low in his throat. 'Do try to pet me, then. You can report back how sharp my claws might be, once your throat grows back.' 'Fool.' 'Narrow roundhead.' 'You thieving, insolent Taffy—' 'Enough!' Claire shouted

Without forgiveness there is never any peace… My son gave his life. I wont reply to his gift with anger, not even for those who took it from me… How can hating them heal me?

Creatures of your planet sing. I sing. The stars sing. Who am I to believe they are not singing on purpose?

Life is a work is progress.

Why the hell is Sam Cade here in handcuffs?