""Vhat ozzer abilities do you haf?" ter Borcht snapped, which his assistant waited, pen in hand.

Gazzy thought. "I have X-ray vision," he said. He peered at ter Borcht's chest, then blinked and looked alarmed.

Ter Borcht was startled for a second, but then he frowned. "Don't write dat down," he told his assistant in irritation. The assistant froze in midsentence.

~

"You. Do you haf any qualities dat distinguish you in any way?"

Nudge chewed on a fingernail. "You mean, like, besides the WINGS?" She shook her shoulders gently, and her beautiful fawn-colored wings unfolded a bit.

His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings."

"Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her chin. "Um..." Her face brightened. "I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!"

"Hardly a special talent," ter Borcht said witheringly.

Nudge was offended. "Yeah? Let's see YOU do it." ...

... "I vill now eat nine Snickers bars," Gazzy said in a perfect, creepy imitation of ter Borcht's voice, "visout bahfing."

~

Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony."

Ter Borcht tsked. "You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold on to someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely?"

"Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert"...

~

Fang pretended to think, gazing up at the ceiling. "Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica."

~

"I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahrs!" Gazzy barked."
— James Patterson

"“Don’t ever leave me again,” I said in a tiny voice.
“I won’t,” he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. “I won’t. Not ever.”
And just like that, a cold shard of ice that had been inside my chest ever since we’d split up-well, it just disappeared. I felt myself relax for the first time in I don’t known how long. The wind was chilly, but the sun was bright, and my whole flock was together. Fang and I were together.

“Excuse me? I’m alive too.” Iggy’s plaintive voice made me pull back.
"
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

"Fang’s hand gently smoothed my hair off my neck. My breath froze in my chest, and every sense seemed hyperalert. His hand stroked my hair again, so softly, and then trailed across my neck and shoulder and down my back, making me shiver.
I looked up. “What the heck are you doing?”
“Helping you change your mind,” he whispered, and then he leaned over, tilted my chin up, and kissed me.
"
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

"“What are you doing here?” [ndr prison]
“Selling Girl Scout cookies,” I said. “Want some? The Samoas are terrific.”
(Max II to Max)"
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

"Fang: *grins* You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much."
— James Patterson

""Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang"
— James Patterson

""He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog."
"I'm only a kid!" I shrieked. "I can't get married!"
"You could in New Hampshire."
My mouth dropped open. How does she know this stuff? "Forget it! No one's getting married!" I hissed. "Not in New Hampshire or anywhere else! Not in a box, not with a fox! Now go to sleep, before I kill you!""
— James Patterson (Max)

"Max: "What I said yesterday didn't mean anything! I love everyone in the flock! Plus, it was the Valium talking!"
Fang: "Uh-huh. You just keep telling yourself that. You looove me."
Max: (tries to punch him)
Fang: "Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it."
Max: (screams and runs into bathroom)"
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

"That was the funniest thing I'd heard in days.
"You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me than 'fair is fair.' Life isn't FAIR, Dean....Nothing is fair, EVER. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I need to help you because FAIR IS FAIR? Try, 'I need you to help me so I won't rip out your spine and beat you with it.' I MIGHT respond to that. MAYBE.""
— James Patterson (School's Out - Forever)

""Tell me again what we're doing here," I said, running a continuous scan of our surroundings.
Fang popped some Cracker Jack into his mouth. "We're here to watch manly men do manly things."
I followed Fang's line of sight: He was watching the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, who were not doing manly things, by any stretch of the imagination."
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

"“Max!” Nudge cried, rushing over to hug me. Her thin arms gripped me tight, and I hugged her back, scratching her wings where they joined her shoulders, the way she liked. “We were so worried—I didn’t know what had happened to you, and we didn’t know what to do, and Fang said we going to eat rats, and—“
“Okay, okay. Everything’s okay,” I told her. I met Fang’s eyes over her shoulder and mouthed Rats? silently. A flicker of a grin crossed his lips and then was gone.
"
— James Patterson (The Angel Experiment)

"Fang: “Let them blow up the world, and global-warm it, and pollute it. You and me and the others will be holed up somewhere, safe. We’ll come back out when they’re all gone, done playing their games of world domination."
Max: “That’s a great plan. Of course, by then we won’t be able to go outside because we’ll get fried by the lack of the ozone layer. We’ll be living at the bottom of the food chain because everything with flavor will be full of mercury or radiation or something! And there won’t be any TV or cable because all the people will be dead! So our only entertainment will be Gazzy singing the constipation song! And there won’t be amusement parks and museums and zoos and libraries and cute shoes! We’ll be like cavemen, trying to weave clothes out of plant fibers. We’ll have nothing! Nothing! All because you and the kids want to kick back in a La-Z-Boy during the most important time in history!”
Fang: “So maybe we should sign you up for a weaving class. Get a jump start on all those plant fibers.”
Max: "I HATE YOU!!!"
Fang: "NO YOU DOOOOOON'T!!"
Voice: "You two are crazy about each other.""
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

""What happened to your tan?"--Fang
"It was dirt." --Max "
— James Patterson (The Final Warning)

"Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?"
— James Patterson (The Angel Experiment)

""De tall, dark vun--dere's nothing special about him at all," ter Borcht said dismissively of Fang, who hadn't moved since the doctor had come in.
"Well, he's a snappy dresser," I offered. One side of Fang's mouth quirked."
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

""choose now," he spat, his eyes practically shooing sparks. "me or him."
"gosh,Fang, you romantic fool," i said sarcastically."howw incredibly sexist pig of you.""
— James Patterson

"We would be outnumbered a couple hundred to two, by something worse than Erasers. I had no idea if the rest of the Flock would be able to help.
It was pretty much a suicide mission.
Again.
"There is one bright side to this," said Fang.
"Yeah? What's that?" The new and improved Erasers would mutilate us before they killed us?
He grinned at me so unexpectedly that I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. "You loooove me," he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he added, "You love me this much."
My shriek of appalled rage could probably be heard in California, or maybe Hawaii.
"
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

""When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.""
— James Patterson

""You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.""
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

""what's your name?"
"what?" i asked, squinting at the light.
"your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me.
"you know my name."
"I want you to tell me."
"Rose. Rose Hathaway."
"Do you know your birthday?"
"Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?"
Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. "I think she's fine," "
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

""Wow." I hadn't thought Dimitri could be any cooler, but I was wrong. "You beat up your dad. I mean, that's really horrible...what happened. But, wow. You really are a god."
He blinked. "What?"
"Uh, nothing.""
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

"There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor."
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

""that's pretty hot," he said.
"Punching me in the eye?"
"Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports."
"I'm sure you are," "
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

""Hey Mason, wipe the drool off your face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own time.”[...]"This is my time, Hathaway. I'm leading today's session.” "Oh yeah?" I retorted. "Huh. Well, I guess this is a good time to think about me naked, then.” "It's always a good a time to think about you naked," added someone nearby, breaking the tension further."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

""...well he didn't treat my mother very well. He did some horrible things."
"Like..." I hesitated. "Blood-whore things?"
"Like beating-her-up kinds of things" he replied flatly.
"Oh God," I said "That's horrible. And she...she just let it happen?"
"She did." The corner of his mouth turned into a sly, sad smile. "But I didn't"
"Tell me, tell me you beat the crap out of him"
His smile gre, "I did""
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

""No," Dimitri interrupted gently. He moved his face
toward mine, our foreheads nearly touching. "It won't happen to
you. You're too strong. You'll fight it, just like you did this
time."
"I only did because you were here." He wrapped his arms
around me, and I buried my face in his chest. "I can't do it by
myself," I whispered.
"You can," he said. There was a tremulous note in his
voice. "You're strong-you're so, so strong. It's why I love you."

~Dimitri~
"
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

""We can't..." he told me.
"I know," I agreed.
Then his mouth was on mine again, and this time, I knew
there would be no turning back. There were no walls this time.
Our bodies wrapped together as he tried to get my coat off, then
his shirt, then my shirt. ... It really was a lot like when we'd
fought out on the quad earlier-that same passion and heat. I
think at the end of the day, the instincts that power fighting and
sex aren't so different. They all come from an animal side of us.
Yet, as more and more clothes came off, it went beyond
just animal passion. It was sweet and wonderful at the same
time. When I looked into his eyes, I could see without a doubt
that he loved me more than anyone else in the world, that I was
his salvation, the same way that he was mine. I'd never expected
my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the
place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved,
you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the
most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were
with someone you didn't love."
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

"Okay God, I thought. Get me out of this and I'll stop my half-assed chruchgoing ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and I'll...I don't know. Donate Adrian's money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not the last one.

-Rose (Blood Promise)"
— Richelle Mead

"The other problem in my life is Dimitri. He's the one who killed Natalie, and he's a total badass. He's also pretty good-looking. Okay- more then good-looking. He's hot-like, the kind of hot that makes you stopwalking on the street and get hit by traffic. "
— Richelle Mead

"'...Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

""Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."
"
— Cassandra Clare

"Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"Jace: Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath.
Clary: It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath.
Simon: As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome.
Jace: I knew we should have left you a rat.
"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me…Well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.
-Simon"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"'One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.' -Jace

'Meaning you?'-clary

'What else?'-jace"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

""Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?"
"No" Simon said,"If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons"
-Jace Wayland and Simon"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"Clary: So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?
Luke: You could say that.
Clary:Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.
Luke: I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever
"
— Cassandra Clare

"No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

-Clary"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

""So what's with the 'hey' thing,", she asked, as Simon manuevered the car onto the FDR parkway, the highway that ran along the East River.
"What 'hey' thing?" he replied...
"The 'hey' thing that guys always do. Like when you saw Jace and Alec, you said 'hey,' and they said 'hey' back. What's wrong with 'hello'?"
She thought she saw a muscle twitch in his cheek. "'Hello' is girly," he informed her. "Real men are terse. Laconic."
"So the more manly you are, the less you say?"
"Right." Simon nodded..."That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything. They just nod. The nod means, 'I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain."
"I have no idea what you're talking about," said Jace, from the backseat.
"Good," Clary said."
— Cassandra Clare

"It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl."
— Cassandra Clare

""Look," Luke went on, "In all the years I've known him, there's always been exactly one place Simon wanted to be, and he's always fought like hell to make sure he got there and stayed there."
"Where's that?"
"Wherever you were.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

""I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners."
Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray."
-Jace and Clary"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

""In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did." "
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"He landed on his back amid a tangled pile of clothes. "Isabelle," Simon protested weakly, "do you really think this is going to make you feel any better?"
"Trust me," Isabelle said, placing a hand on his chest, just over his unbeating heart. "I feel better already."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

""But--" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking at-- and stared.
Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state ov shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people--Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike-- were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes widen, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over her mouth.
Maia looked perplexed. "Wait a second," she said. "Do we all have to do that, too?""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"Alec: You're Valentine's son. I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming.
(Jace glares at him)
Alec: Maybe not at the moment."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"He took something out of his jacket and handed it to her. It was a long thin dagger in a leather sheath. The hilt of the dagger was set with a single red stone carved in the shape of a rose.
She shook her head. "I wouldn't even know how to use that--"
He pressed it into her hand, curling her fingers around it. "You'd learn." He dropped his voice. "It's in your blood."
She drew her hand back slowly. "All right."
"I could give you a thigh sheath to put that in," Isabelle offered. "I've got tons."
"CERTAINLY NOT," said Simon."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

""Look, Simon, Luke thinks you should tell your mom. You can't hide it from her forever."
"I can damn well try."
"Think about Luke," she said desperately. "You can still live a normal life."
"And what about us? Do you want a vampire boyfriend?" He laughed bitterly. "Because I foresee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin pina colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)