Silence Fallen (Mercy Thompson, #10)

by Patricia Briggs

Radiating nothing in the presence of power is a sign of even more power.

“If you are taken by your enemies,” he said, “don’t wait to escape. The hour you are taken is when you will be at your strongest. Time gives them the opportunity to starve you, to torture you, to break you and make you weak. You have to escape as soon as you can.”

To prove that no matter how old Adam got he would never understand women, telling Honey he was using her as bait for the nastiest vampire on the planet made her happier with his decision.

“I only get weirder the longer you know me,” I told him, quoting one of the T-shirts I’d gotten for my last birthday.

Witches are bitches and they’ll burn your britches sure as kittens have itches if you give ’em half a chance.”