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141 " I want your heart the most. Above all else. You’re exactly right, I won’t stop until I have it. "
― Jeaniene Frost , Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, #1)
142 " you men…you’re all alike. Alive, dead, undead—all perverts! I had a drunken pervert in my pants! Do you know how unsanitary that is?” Bones held me upright. I would have protested, but I couldn’t remember how to. “What are you saying?” “Winston poltergeisted my panties, that’s what!” I announced with a loud hiccup. "
143 " but you men…you’re all alike. Alive, dead, undead—all perverts! I had a drunken pervert in my pants! Do you know how unsanitary that is? "
144 " Winston poltergeisted my panties, that’s what!” I "
145 " Not for a minute did I believe that this wasn’t goodbye. Still, I had loved and been loved in return, and there was nothing greater than that. It "
146 " I hoped someone wouldn’t drive by while we were decapitating him. That would be hard to explain. "
147 " However to be rudely blunt, I've already gotten you on your back, and it wasn't by declaring my devotion to you. I simply don't care to hide my feelings any longer. - Bones "
148 " I’m not afraid of the grave; I was born half in it. "
149 " Charlie whistled “Amazing Grace” as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn’t he pick something more appropriate, like “Shout at the Devil” or “Don’t Fear the Reaper”? Some people had no sense of the proper music for a kidnapping. "
150 " There is only one way to fight, and that’s dirty. Clean, gentlemanly fighting will get you nowhere but dead, and fast. Take every cheap shot, every low blow, absolutely kick people when they’re down, and then maybe you’ll be the one who walks away. "
151 " remember, be good only if being bad ain’t more fun! "
152 " Bones just stared. “You’re not a woman,” he said finally. “You’re the Grim Reaper with red hair! "
153 " Bones had been out shopping. I didn’t ask where he got the money from, images of old folks with their necks bleeding and their wallets missing dancing in my head. "
154 " First dates. They can be quite something, can’t they? Either perfume or poison, with usually no in between. "
155 " No one hits you ’less they mean it! "
156 " It’s what you reminded me of when we met. An angry, defiant, brave little kitten. And every once in a while you’re cuddly like one. "
157 " You’re one of the bravest people I’ve ever met, yet you’re scared to death of your own mum. Don’t you realize? It’s not me you’re hiding in a closet—it’s yourself. "
158 " Te vuelves roja como el atardecer a cualquier indicio de una insinuación. "
159 " This world is a big place and you’ve got an important role to play in it. Think everyone goes around whistling about the life they lead? Think everyone is given the power to choose the way their fate goes? Sorry, luv, it doesn’t work that way. You hold the ones you love close and fight the battles you can win, and that, Kitten, is how it is. "
160 " Speed, vision, hearing, smell, physical strength—all are superior to a human’s. "