“this stuff tastes like the bastard love child of grapes and rubbing alcohol”
“Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon. - Persian proverb”
“My nerves did a jitter dance,”
“We would not live ever after, but hunt together forevermore.”
“Sin. Repent. Repeat.”
“I didn t know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room. (Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family)”
“We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.”
“Yeah? You want to do some other worldly hanky panky? She laughed and almost fell off the couch. Hanky Panky? Don t knock it till you try it”
“I was trying to make you jealous! Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. You re so stupid, Clary. You re so stupid, can t you see anything? She stared at him in bewilderment. What on earth did he mean? Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that? She saw immediately that this was the worst thing she could have asked him. Because, he said, so bitterly that it shocked her, I ve been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you don t.”
“Jack couldn t help but watch Nonie as she left. She looked to be twenty-nine, thirty at the most, stood maybe five foot-four and was slender. She had shoulder-length, curly, walnut-colored hair and the largest most beautiful blue eyes he d ever seem Her nose and ears were small in comparison to her full lips, which he d give anything to kiss.”
“The door banged open, and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. It s not what you think, she said. It was just—oh, okay, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now, what?”
“Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!”
“Hey! Caleb snapped as he realized Nick was about to lock him on the outside with their attackers. He pushed the door open and glared at him. No man left behind. Nick scoffed. This aint the army, boy. It s every man for himself. Fall behind. Get eaten”
“It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other.”
“What s he saying? Buggy asked, her voice shaky. That there s something up in the attic that we should be careful of because it could be dangerous. Oh, uh-uh, I m not going up there, Buggy said, You can send Shaundelle up there, but I m keeping my little white ass down here.”
“Life is a book waiting to happen.”
“Although this scouting gig sounded like a financial hit, it made Nonie extremely nervous. She feared someone slip--that someone being Buggy--and others would find out Nonie s secret. And if the wrong person caught wind that she could see and speak to the dead, word would spread through Clay Point like ants at a picnic.”