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“Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that!”

“All those 'bloodys' was a veritable cornucopia of emotion for Barrons.”

“Sometimes, Ms. Lane,” he said, “one must break with one’s past to embrace one’s future. It is never
an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims.
Letting go of what was, to survive what is.”

“Mac reflected on the Unseelie King and his concubine:

He’d loved her for all time
After he’d believed she was gone
Sunshine to his ice.
Frost to her fever.
I wished them forever. The Unseelie King was gone.”

“I never thought there might be one like you out there. Unaware, untrained.
Unbelievable. You have no idea what you are, do you?”
“Crazy?”

“There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth?"

-Mac”

“Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious.”

“What are you?
"A man with a rope?"
"Ha-ha.”

“People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let.”

“Dude, got eyes? I'm collecting evidence." […]
"In Ziploc bags."
"I think they're Glad."
"They look impartial to me.”

“He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon. com so she didn't have to be embarassed by some supercilious male clerk in the bookstore.”

“An ait a bhfuil do chroi is ann a thabharfas do chosa thu.(your feet will bring you to where your heart is.)”

“Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.”

“Being threatened seems to being out the worst in me.”

“I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.”

“Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.”

“There are a few absolute no-brainer rules in my world. Real close to the top of this list is: if an Unseelie prince runs from it, I'm going to run from it, too. [said Dani]”

“Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.”

“Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?”

“You are what you are. Deal with it or change.”

“If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time.”

“We were watching Barrons.
Why were you watching Barrons?
Barrons needs watching.”

“If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control”

“I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks.”

“Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.”

“Superglue after duct tape a girl's best friend.”

“Question: When you’re one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It’s how you choose to answer that question that defines you.”

“Will an hour be enough?”
An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. “I’ll see what I can do,” I said coolly. I was ready in twenty minutes.”

“You have splendid breasts, lass," he purred, cupping the plump mounds. "Splendid," he repeated stupidly, and she almost laughed. Men loved breasts any shape or form, they just loved them.

-Drustan to Gwen”