" 'Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'
Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled."
— Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms)

"'And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.'"
— Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead)

"Not nearly enough. Not recently, anyway.” And she was sad about that.
“I know,” he said, and kissed the back of her hand. “We’ll fix it. Get some sleep.”
“Night,” she said, and watched him walk toward the door. “Hey. How’d you get in?”
He wiggled his fingers at her in a spooky oogie-boogie pantomime. “I’m a vampire. I have secret powers ,” he said with a full-on fake Transylvanian accent, which he dropped to say, “Actually, your mom let me in.”
“Seriously? My mom? Let you in my room? In the middle of the night?”
He shrugged. “Moms like me.”
He gave her a full-on Hollywood grin, and slipped out the door.
"
— Rachel Caine

""Who are you calling?" (claire)
"Pizza hut" (shane)
"Loser" (claire)"
— Rachel Caine (Feast of Fools)

"Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid. "
— Kim Harrison (The Outlaw Demon Wails)

""You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)"
— Rachel Caine

" 'Ivy!' I stammered, then glared at Kisten. 'You told Ivy? Thanks a hell of a lot. Want to call my mom next?'"
— Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead)

"A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrel’s End. It was early, and the sun had yet to set when the door swung shut behind Jenks, sealing us in the warm air smelling faintly of smoke. Immediately Nick yanked it open to come in behind us. And there’s the punch line."
— Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms)

"'You look like the vamp who bled the cat.'"
— Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead)

"Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another."
— Kim Harrison

"But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable trust. It just saved your miserable life, that questionable show of thought, my itchy-witch.' Al’s smile shifted, becoming lighter. 'And now you will live to possibly regret it.' "
— Kim Harrison (The Outlaw Demon Wails)

"'Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives.
'The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David’s answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement. "
— Kim Harrison (The Outlaw Demon Wails)

"Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space."
— Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead)

" 'You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried."
— Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead)

"Michael rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, “I vant to drink your blood” in a heavy, fake-Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen.

“You sabotaged me!” Kim yelled, dropped the controller, and smacked him hard on the chest. “I can’t believe you just totally sabotaged me!”

“Can’t let him lose,” Michael said, as Shane hit the high score and the victory music sounded. “Gotta live with the dude.”

They high-fived.

“You’re seriously going to take that as a win,” Kim said. “When he totally cheated for you.”

“Yes,” Shane said. “I seriously am.”"
— Rachel Caine (Fade Out)

"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. "
— Rachel Maddow

"Anybody else think that was weird?” Shane asked as they got into the car. Eve sent him an exasperated glance; the three of them were, of course, in the backseat. Amelie had the front, with Michael.

“Ya think? In general, or in particular?”

“Weird that we got through the entire thing, and I didn’t have to hit anybody.”

There was a moment of silence. Michael said, as he started the car, “You’re right, Shane. That is strange."
— Rachel Caine (Fade Out)

"“I like the second better, but the first fits with the vampire watching what she can’t have.” I blinked. “What he can’t have,” I amended, flushing."
— Kim Harrison

"His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it."
— Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms)

"And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust."
— Kim Harrison (Every Which Way But Dead)

""Rachel candy.""
— Kim Harrison

"Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if— as the war ends, or at least starts to end— if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there— Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it?"
— Rachel Maddow

"...extraordinarily beautiful, and slightly out of focus."
— Rosemary Sutcliff (Frontier Wolf)