Irmina

“If you’re worried arresting my sister will come between us — really, that’s not a problem. I’m pretty sure it will bind us tighter together. Besides, we made plans…involving Missy’s desk.”

“You know I was only torturing your sister.”

“So you were just using me?” He actually sounded wounded. “Like a whore?”

“Mace…” She stopped and rubbed her eyes. Of all the places he could be doing this, her precinct should not be one of them.

“You’re doing it again.”

“Doing what?”

“Trying to make me crazy.”

The look he gave her was pure predatory male. “I like you crazy.”
― Shelly Laurenston, The Mane Event

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins

“Do you mind if I ask you a question, darlin'?"

"Only if you stop calling me darlin'"

"Now where I come from that's a term of endearment."

"Really? Well, where I come from motherfucker is a term of endearment. Want me to start calling you that?”
― Shelly Laurenston

“Christ on crackers, she'd barely gotten over finding out about the others: if she had to start believing aliens were real, too, she was finished. she'd stab herself in the heart with a blue pencil just see if she didn't."
-Corinne D'Alessandro”
― Christine Warren, Not Your Ordinary Faerie Tale