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“Sometimes I consider chopping my hair down to a nice manageable three inches, but I would miss it too much. It’s less useful and more confidence-boosting, like Superman’s cape.”
― Dead Spots
― Dead Spots
“Killing someone in the middle of the sentence leaves a disturbing lack of closure.”
― Boundary Crossed
― Boundary Crossed
“Fainting is for preteen girls and those really weird goats. I do not faint!”
― Boundary Crossed
― Boundary Crossed
“It wasn’t the greatest bargain I’d ever made, but I didn’t see a lot of alternatives, short of moving into Charlie’s bedroom or trying to convince John to move to Belize.”
― Boundary Crossed
― Boundary Crossed
“could only fight evil so long without a bra.”
― Boundary Lines
― Boundary Lines
“I’m like one of those rich society girls—ridiculously famous in certain circles but only for stupid reasons.”
― Dead Spots
― Dead Spots
“It’s funny, but finding out that Hollywood movie monsters were real never shook my convictions. If God could create a platypus, why couldn’t he create a vampire? If AIDS could exist in God’s kingdom, why not lycanthropy?”
― Trail of Dead
― Trail of Dead
“The third time I died was early on a Monday morning, a week after Labor Day.”
― Boundary Crossed
― Boundary Crossed
“What happened?” I asked. “You fainted.” “I did not,” I said crossly. “Fainting is for preteen girls and those really weird goats. I do not faint.”
― Boundary Crossed
― Boundary Crossed
“There was just something very seductive about the last person in the world who knows you to the core . . . and cares for you anyway.”
― Boundary Crossed
― Boundary Crossed
“Your boss is a woman, isn’t she?” He examined my face closely. “What makes you say that?” “You were careful to avoid a singular pronoun right there—you said ‘that person’ instead of ‘he’ or ‘she,’ even though it made your sentence awkward.”
― Boundary Crossed
― Boundary Crossed
“He was in his late thirties maybe, tall and slim with pale blond hair, ruddy cheeks, and the kind of translucent Scandinavian skin that would burn instantly in the sun. His face was all interesting angles and cleft chin, creating the overall impression that he should be modeling parkas in an L.L.Bean catalog. The suit was neither particularly nice nor particularly shabby, but I recognized a familiar lump near his armpit—a shoulder holster. I was immediately wary. “Good evening, Miss Luther,” the man said, pleasantly enough. “I’m Detective Quinn with Boulder PD.” His hazel eyes pierced mine as he held out his hand, very close to mine so I wouldn’t have to work hard to reach it. His handshake was extremely gentle—not weak, exactly, but more like he feared my fingers might crumple to dust. “I’d like to speak to you about the incident at your work.” “Now?” I asked, a little incredulous. I had expected the cops to turn up with questions, particularly since Mom had warned me, but it seemed awfully late. Visiting hours had been over for a while. Quinn nodded. “As you might imagine, we’re very anxious to pursue the couple who kidnapped your niece.”
― Boundary Crossed
― Boundary Crossed
“But his mother was an old-school Mexicana, convinced that the greatest troubles of the world could be fixed with food bribes,”
― Dead Spots
― Dead Spots
“I had a soft spot for the John Browning-designed weapon. This shotgun and I had done our part to combat the scourge of clay pigeons invading the skies of Boulder.”
― Boundary Lines
― Boundary Lines
“I thought it was just a silly form of misdirection, like the idea that vampires can’t stand holy relics.”
― Boundary Lines
― Boundary Lines
“peace. I smiled back, tears running down my cheeks.”
― Boundary Born
― Boundary Born
“Nulls are the wrecking ball of the supernatural world: we swing in and out of situations, creating damage and chaos. But sometimes in a really useful way.”
― Dead Spots
― Dead Spots
“Witchblood children come into their powers around puberty. Then they have a window of time to actually activate that power.” I considered that. “And if you miss the window?” “Then your magic lies dormant for the rest of your life,” he replied. “Probably the majority of people with witchblood never know they have it.”
― Boundary Crossed
― Boundary Crossed
“Instinctively, I started to follow him, but my foot slipped on a chunk of plywood, and I only just managed to catch myself in a plank before I face-planted into the old floor. “Jesus, be more of an athlete,” Scarlett muttered. Then: “You okay?” I checked myself. “Yes.” “Did you just fly through a boarded-up window to save me?”
― Old World War
― Old World War
“This woman knew that her children could be hurt, that she could become powerless to save them. It was a terrible thing to know, and”
― Dead Spots
― Dead Spots
“In med school, baby doctors are taught this saying – ‘if you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not zebras.’ It means they should look for the most statistically likely possibility.” “And that’s bad?” “It’s limiting. If a sports doctor sees a hundred patients who have stretched-out knee ligaments, they assume all hundred are athletes who put repeated stress on their knees playing sports. But what about the one or two patients who haven’t been doing that? No one questions why their joints hurt.”
― The Other Frankenstein
― The Other Frankenstein
“Remember who you are, and where you came from.”
― Boundary Born
― Boundary Born
“I never missed the daylight until I met you.”
― Boundary Lines
― Boundary Lines
“The good ones, anyway. I used to keep all of them, but with digital photography it’s just too easy to fill up even the biggest hard drives with”
― Trail of Dead
― Trail of Dead
“I hate taking the pills – not because they don’t work, but because they work so well. They smooth everything into an easy blur, and then you have to come back to reality later. I know better than anyone how dangerous that particular tug-of-war can get.”
― The Other Frankenstein
― The Other Frankenstein
“One evening I woke up with Dopey and Pongo sleeping on either side of me and realized that I hadn’t had a nightmare in months. Well played, Sam.”
― Boundary Crossed
― Boundary Crossed
“People who get into relationships aren’t supposed to stop growing; they’re supposed to grow together.”
― Midnight Curse
― Midnight Curse
“I was starting to feel a little weird about this—even though it’d taken over a day to set up, it suddenly seemed like this meeting was happening really fast. Consulting a magical healing witch was, at the very least, socially awkward, sort of like walking into a strip club, a therapist’s office, or a Chinese grocery store for the first time—you just don’t know what to do.”
― Boundary Lines
― Boundary Lines
“Hmm.” I tried to imagine telling my parents I was a witch. My live-and-let-live dad would do his best to ignore it; he would assume I was going through a weird fad. My mother would be so grateful that I was interested in something, she’d probably offer to be a witch with me. “What about your girlfriend?” I asked Simon. “Is she a witch, too?”
― Boundary Crossed
― Boundary Crossed
“Erythropoietic protoporphyria is a very rare immune system disorder that made you basically allergic to sunlight. The few vamps who still tried to pass in human society often claimed to have EPP. For the longest time I’d actually thought the whole disorder was invented by vampires, but one day I saw a photo in the newspaper of a little girl with EPP smiling from beneath a beach umbrella. Photos.”
― Midnight Curse
― Midnight Curse
