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41 " When I am with you, my control is shot. I think that's what you've been feeling. "
― Patricia Briggs , Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)
42 " Afterward we drove out to the Hanford Reservation and ran as a wolf and coyote through the open terrain. He didn't have Samuel's ability to throw off all his humanity and revel in the joy of being a wild thing. Instead, he played with the same intensity he used for everything. Which meant that when I chase him, I wasn't really sure I wanted to catch him - and when he chased me, I felt like a rabbit. "
43 " Just then Warren's breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right? "
44 " Samuel is going to get you a blanket," I told him firmly. "And a pillow. You are going to sleep for the day in my closet. Dead people don't get to stay in my bedroom. "
45 " I may have bought the business from him, but when we worked together, he still gave the orders. Part of it was habit, I suppose, but a larger part of it was that, though I am a good mechanic, Zee is magic. Literally and figuratively. If it weren’t for his tendency to get bored with easy stuff, he’d never have hired me. Then I’d have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald’s or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors. "
46 " Like most people who own their own businesses, I work long hours that start early in the morning. So when someone calls me in the middle of the night, they’d better be dying. "
47 " If it weren’t for his tendency to get bored with easy stuff, he’d never have hired me. Then I’d have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald’s or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors. "
48 " It felt weird to exchange a smile with Honey, so I stopped as soon as I could. "
49 " I won't lie to you about how I feel. The thought of having children who won't die before they are born is powerful. But you should know that the wolf in me doesn't care about such things. He only wants you. "
50 " When he was home, he acted as if he’d never kissed me, never told me that he was still interested. I didn’t know if that was reassuring or frightening. Samuel was a very patient hunter. "
51 " Dominance among wolves is a combination of force of personality, strength of will, physical ability and a component of other "
52 " But helping new wolves through this kind of situation had been one of Samuel’s jobs in the pack I’d grown up in. "
53 " The Marrok knows,” he whispered. “He always does. Everyone else believed I was the same, just like always. My father knew something was wrong, that I wasn’t right. I was going to leave—but then you came. "
54 " Werewolves don't do well on their own. They need someone, pack or family, or they begin to get odd. Werewolves who get odd tend to end up dead -- and sometimes take a lot of other people down with them when they go. "
55 " There are three groups of old car enthusiasts: people who think a car should be left as much original as possible; the ones who restore it better than factory; and the people who gut them and replace the brakes, engine, and suspension with more modern equipment. "
56 " Shisei kai kan is an oddball form of karate Sensei likes to call “reach out and break someone. "
57 " Siebold Adelbertsmiter, my former boss, is an old fae, a metalworker, which is unusual for the fae who mostly can’t handle cold iron. He calls himself a gremlin, though he is a lot older than the name, coined by flyboys in WWI. I have a degree in history, so I know useless things like that. "
58 " All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing’, "
59 " Medea came out of the hallway shadows first, meowing sharp little complaints as she trotted across the kitchen floor and hopped onto Stefan’s lap. Samuel followed, "
60 " Then I’d have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald’s or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors. "