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1 " Since no one said anything, I decided to make offense my best . . . offense. "You didn't call me up here to kill me, did you? Or to pay me back for staking you? Because the last time I saw you upright, you were . . . rude. "
― Faith Hunter , Broken Soul (Jane Yellowrock, #8)
2 " They go in a vase. On the nighstand by your bed. Or on the kitchen table. Or on the coffee table in the living room. They go where you can see them most often, and, seeing them, remember that you deserve flowers. "
3 " For a reason or a season,' he said. 'For a year or a lifetime. For a poem or a song. For a victorious battle or a bloody death. For honor. I would stand by you for as long as I might live. "
4 " like something Disney might have envisioned if he’d taken a dose of LSD, backed up with a serving of psilocybin mushrooms, and a quart of tequila. "
5 " New beginnings often started with the broken bits and shattered pieces of the old. "
6 " Hey, my brother," Eli said, sounding friendly and casual. "Let's chat about this first, before I hafta kill you and then figure out where to bury the body. Though I'm thinking out in a bayou, somewhere close to gators, you dig? "
7 " I chose these things because they seemed to speak to the heart of you. To the deep darkness that is part of you. That still, lightless, solemn place where, I think, no one has ever gone. "
8 " You hurt her and I'll skin you alive and feed your carcass to the wild boars in the swamps. You copy? "
9 " You deserve someone who will honor you first and last. And if you choose a man who dishonors you, then you are not the woman I believe you to be. "
10 " My cell buzzed midstorm with a text from Soul that said, We are here. See lights in house. No answer at door. NO DOOR. Please advise. Are wet.I chuckled and texted back, Side gate. Enter through window. To the guys, I said, “Soul’s back and she must be human because she can text. And she’s not alone, and she’s wet. Oh. And she noted that we have no front door.”“She’s clearly got mad powers of observation even when she’s a dragon,” Alex said. "
11 " You're robbing the cradle, then," he said. Humor filled his face. "You're a cougar."Laughter burbled out of me, part of it relieved nerves, the other part surprise at the play on words. "I'm not that kind of cougar," I said, my tone lofty. "
12 " Eli met us there and handed me my bag of weapons, one hand holding Bruiser back. I left the men there, but my hearing was better than human, and I heard Eli say, “You hurt her and I’ll skin you alive and feed your carcass to the wild boars in the swamps. You copy?”“I do. And I’ll break your arm if you ever accost me again. Civilized discourse is acceptable. Your hand upon my person is not. "
13 " I'm totally out of his league. You know? He's British. He was raised by a Lady. As in a capital L Lady. He dates vamps, some of whom are royalty. I mean, I was raised in a children's home.""And you can hold your own anywhere with anyone, Janie," Alex said, staunchly. "
14 " Thank you, Sabina. Oh. One more thing. Tonight, a white werewolf stuck in wolf form, one who met the angel Hayyel, ran up and bit the foot of Joses Bar-Judas. Should I be worried? "
15 " Or they aliens like that professor with the hair say.” I wasn’t sure who uni lisi was talking about, "
16 " what resources "