How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.

She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

To hell with monsters and to hell with men. There is no difference to me.

I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.