Please, if you would," the butler said, "no throwing the linens. Peaches, anyone?" -Fritz

Sometimes words were less valuable than the air that carried them when it came to getting close.

What happened to you?" she asked. "I got hit in the side." "With what?" "A knife.

We’re vampires,” he said. “Not fairies.” “Sometimes I’m not so sure about that. You see that study your king hangs out in?” “He’s nearly blind.” “Which explains why he hasn’t hanged himself in that pastel train wreck.” “I thought you were bitching about the gloom-and-doom decorating?” “I free-associate.

Sorry to bother you,” Bella said over the wailing. “But she wants her daddy.

There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable.

And I'm full aware of how much you don't like me at this moment" Can't be a new thing for you" Jim said