Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don’t. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don’t want to talk

Wizards don't all look alike.

He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?