The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I could've done it, but I didn't. I just gave him some drugs." "You gave an addict in rehab drugs, and you want credit for it?" "Of course it sounds bad when you put it that way.

The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered.

Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.

Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute.

Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you." She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?" "Like a favorite vice.

I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield." Sean glanced at him. "And?" "I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.