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“Another night then,' Mom said. 'Maybe on the weekend we can have a barbecue and invite your sister.'

'Or,' I said turning to Rafe, 'if you want to skip the whole awkward meet-the-family social event you could just submit your life story including your view on politics religion and every social issue imaginable along with anything else you think they might need to conduct a thorough background check.'

Mom sighed. 'I really don't know why we even bother trying to be subtle around you.'

'Neither do I. It's not like he isn't going to realize he's being vetted as daughter-dating material.'

Rafe grinned. 'So we are dating.'

'No. You have to pass the parental exam first. It'll take you awhile to compile the data. They'd like it in triplicate.' I turned to my parents. 'We have Kenjii. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't yet officially dating I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need.'

Dad choked on his coffee.”
― Kelley Armstrong, The Gathering

“Have you ever seen An American Werewolf in London? Well, I'm not American. I'm not a werewolf, and this isn't London.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“Passive," he repeated the word with distaste. "Sometimes, Sarah, it's important not to jump into a swamp until you've properly assessed how many alligators there are.”
― Michelle Rowen

“Varden’s suppurating cuticles,” said Seivarden. “Lieutenant,”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

“Is it ignorance if you don’t care to know it?” “Yes. That is almost the definition of ignorance, actually.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“Forgetting... is a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself... For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“Life is full of beautiful dangers, dangerous beauties... They wound us in ways we cannot see: an injury ripples out, like a stone dropped in water, touching moments years into the future.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“I don't have the time or the energy to hate," says Shara. "I only wish to understand. People are what they are.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“I have never met a person who possessed a privilege who did not exercise that privilege to the fullest extent that they possibly could.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“History will not let us forget: it wears disguises, reintroduces itself to us, claims it is someone new and wonderful. But let us not forget.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him.

“Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.”
― Patricia Briggs, Bone Crossed

“One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.”
― Patricia Briggs, Bone Crossed

“Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot.”
― Patricia Briggs, Bone Crossed

“He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopeless a thing as it might have been.”
― Patricia Briggs, Bone Crossed

“Staying in that house alone didn't appeal to me - some ghost hunter I was. Nothing had happened, and I was already jumpy.”
― Patricia Briggs, Bone Crossed

“What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back and see it was full of treasures.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“If one were to protest all the injustices of life,” says Sigrud, “great and small, one would have no time for living.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“My definition of an adult is someone who lives their life aware they are sharing the world with others. My definition of an adult is someone who knows the world was here before they showed up and that it'll be here well after they walk away from it.

My definition of an adult, in other words, is someone who lives their life with a little fucking perspective.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their own lives. Far too many people still have no say in how they live.

The more power is dispersed, the more that will change.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“And then he understands: it’s a loop, an endless loop of injured children, growing old but keeping their pain fresh and new, causing yet more injury and starting the whole cycle over again.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles

“Many will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and don it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You... you would rather go naked into the storm.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself. Be who you are, and eventually all will have to recognize who you are, whether they are willing to admit it or not.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“Somehow," she said coldly, "you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“Kyle saw them as a double-pronged problem: the ship that would not heed his wishes because of a boy that would not be what his father commanded him to be.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“Anyone who offends me deserves to hear exactly how they trespassed—or needs to be lulled into a false sense of security before the sneak attack when they aren’t paying attention.”
― Patricia Briggs, Silver Borne