Keep your vampire mitts off me. I'm not your friggin' blood toy.

Nick as in my former boyfriend Nick. Ex-rat, ex-boyfriend, ex-alive if I ever got hold of him Nick.

I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.

He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.

And what’s important to you?” I asked. Marshal thought while we maneuvered around Darth Vader, who was struggling to keep from hitting the wall with his helmet blocking his vision. “Success at work. Having fun doing it. Caring for someone and supporting their interests because you like to see them happy. Having them care about and support yours simply because they want to see you happy.

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me.