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The Demon's Surrender QUOTES

1 " Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat.

Mae frowned. "Is it no-shirts festival day?"

"Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day," Alan said absently, but he was frowning too. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

2 " Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

3 " I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

4 " Oh my gosh,Nick. You're not wearing a shirt! This must be one of those exciting days ending in Y. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

5 " Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

6 " Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?"
Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. "No."
"I'm traumatized too," Nick claimed, his voice completely flat.
"He's a delicate flower," Alan said under his breath. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

7 " I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you."
Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing.
Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

8 " I can smite you " Nick grumbled. "Anytime I like. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

9 " Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?"
Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

10 " I can't be any more addicted to it than I already am,"Jamie said slowly, as though he'd rehearsed this, and then waiting for a cue Nick obviously had no intention of giving." Think about crack!" Jamie added, clearly struck by insperation. "Yes! It's like I'm a crack addict, and you're my friend the drug dealer who gives me crack for free, and I know you're just trying to be a good friend, but every time I think 'Wow, this crack might be a little bit of a problem for me,' you're there to say, 'Have some more delicious crack.' Am I making sense?"
Nick stared."Hardly ever in your life. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

11 " Love always costs more than you can afford to pay," he said. "And it's always worth the price. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

12 " I don't have your way with words "Sin said. "So I'm just going to go with a quick response. Ha "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

13 " You're weird," Nick grumbled, but he turned his face back to critically examine the new hand.
"You're weird," Jamie returned. "As soon as this whole magical war is over, I'm going to make us some friendship bracelets, and we will wear them everywhere because we are best friends."
"Drop dead," said Nick, and Jamie looked serenely pleased. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

14 " And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...) "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

15 " Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

16 " Alan: "I had terrible stage fright."
Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'"
A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know."
S: "Why, Alan, I had no idea your tastes ran that way."
A: "Phyllis is a very nice lady. And I do not consider her so much aged as matured, like a fine wine. But I still think you owe me an archery lesson. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

17 " I don't have deal breakers," Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

18 " I'm sorry about dragging you into my evil schemes with my masculine wiles. I didn't realise, um, the force of my own wiliness. I don't actually use my wiles a lot. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender

19 " So I heard you tried to kill a guy with a paintbrush."
"Don't try to stifle my artistic self-expression "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Surrender