Quotes from Rachel Caine

Nobody's cut out for this town, Shane said. Nobody sane anyway. Says the kid who came back. Yeah, kind of proves my point.

Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.

You've turned into quite a bossy little thing, Myrnin said. I think I might like it.

Myrnin: Have we been introduced? Frank: Probably not. Why, you asking me out, sweetheart? Myrnin: You're not my type, darling.

Now play nicely , make-believe dead girl

Promise me, Amelie, that you'll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love." "I hardly think there's any chance of that," Amelie said. I doubt you have the capacity.

Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.

Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.

See? he said, with an unholy amount of glee. I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often. No. Trust me, you shouldn't, Eve said. Think of all the little old people and the children.

Shut up! Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. Jackass! You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome

She wasn't absolutely sure who kissed whom this time. Maybe it was gravity tilting, stars exploding. It felt like it.... She gasped into his open mouth, and he moaned. Moaned. She had no idea a sensation could go through her like that, traveling through her skin and nerves like lightning.... Okay, this was kissing . Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a goodbye, this was Hello, sexy , and wow, she'd never even suspected it could feel this way.

Is it him?" Dad asked. "Did he get you into trouble?" "Not me," Shane said. "I've just got that kind of face.

See? she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede! Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either!

Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.

Michael!" Oliver's voice came faint through the front door. "Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!" "Trap," Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael's arm as he walked by. "Don't, man." "What's he going to do? Make faces at me?

You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane

Myrnin said softly. And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

I just—we were talking, and we fell asleep. I swear, we didn't, um—'' ''Yeah, you'd better not have ummed.

Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.

Rambo was a Green Beret, Hannah said. Please. We eat those army boys for breakfast.

Hey, if you don't want to tell me, don't. But I can tell when you lie. Ok, that was super creepy. You can? He smiled grimly down at the dirty dishwater. Nope. But see? You fell for it anyway. Careful, or I'll read your mind with my incredible vampire superpowers.

Hey! Claire called after him, as she leaned her backpack against the wall. No onions! Your loss! I meant for YOU! Not if you want to get kissed tonight! Damn, girl. Harsh.

Oh -- who's the Queen? Her, of course. The White Queen. You're just like Alice, you know. Down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter.

Bite me, Goth princess," Shane called from the back. "Not literally or anything." "Maybe you should say that to Michael." "Not funny, Eve," Michael said. Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. "Little bit," she said.