Quotes from Carpe Corpus

“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, quote from Carpe Corpus

“God, I needed you," he murmured. "I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more."
~Shane~”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know.
Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn’t, either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him.
'My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there.
'Can I call you None for short?”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“You're just full of awesome; did you know that?”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Now play nicely, make-believe dead girl”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Mind the dead man, my dear.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Michael, don’t,” Eve said. “He won’t hurt us.” Andeveryone rolled their eyes at that. Even Jason, which was borderline hilarious.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“You were right,” she said. “You were always right, about everything. And I will always love you, Sam. Forever.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Damn, girl. You space so hard, you ought to look into a career at NASA.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Jason talking about Michael -

"Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“You never heard ofplugging her in ? My God, Myrnin, you made a vampire computer?”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Amelie had on black pants, a black zip-up hoodie, andrunning shoes.
So wrong.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“What you know about Vampires could fit into a mosquito's ass." Eve said. Irritated. "All you know is what you grew up seeing on T.V. You ever actually meet one?”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“I’m avampire. I havesecret powers ,” he said with a full-on fake Transylvanian accent, which he dropped to say, “Actually, your mom let me in.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“I’ll defend the girl with my last breath,” he promised, and clasped his hand dramatically to the chest of his ragged frock coat. “Oh, wait. That doesn’t mean much, does it, since I gasped that last breath before the Magna Carta was dry on the page? I mean, of course I’ll look after her, with whatever is left of my life.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“You’re their little girl,” Shane said. “You know, when I think about it, I’d feel the same way about my own daughter.”
“You would?” There was something deliciously warm about the fact that he wasn’t afraid to say that to her. “So,” she said, with an effort at being casual that was probably all too obvious. “You want to have a daughter, then?”
He kissed the top of her head. “Hit the brakes, girl.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Parting is such sweet sorrow, according to the bards. I wouldn’t know, myself. I never parted anyone.” He mimed ripping someone in half, then got an odd expression on his face. “Well. Just the one time, really. Doesn’t count.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“I'm a vampire. I have secret powers".."Actually, your mom let me in" -Michael Glass”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Of course. What else? Why can't any of you guys ever come up with something that uses chocolate?”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Porque soy una chica, pensó Claire. Casi no fue capaz de contener su alivio interior. Porque somos todas tontas e inseguras y creemos que nunca somos lo suficientemente
buenas.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“That, Claire thought, was a pretty good definition of love: needing someone even after you got what you thought you wanted.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Because I'm a girl, Claire thought. She was barely able to contain the relief welling up inside her. Because we're all stupid and insecure and think that we're never, ever good enough.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Sonrió, y fue totalmente Shane – afilado pero extrañamente dulce. - Claire, acabo
de salir de la cárcel. ¿Realmente crees que trato de ser un santo o algo?”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“You're kidding, right?" Shane asked. "You don't need caffeine. You need sleep." He held out the last cup, and Claire realized she'd been wrong; there was someone else in the shadows. Deeper in the shadows even than Oliver had been.
Myrnin.
He looked completely different to her now, and not just because he wasn't crazy anymore. He'd remembered how to dress himself, for one thing; gone were the costume coats and Mardi Gras beads and flip-flops. He had on a gray knit shirt, black pants, and a jacket that looked a bit out of period, but not as much as before.
All clean. He even had shoes on.
"Yes, you must sleep," he agreed, as he accepted the cup and tried the coffee. "I've gone to far too much trouble to train up another apprentice at this late date. We have work to do, Claire. Good, hard work. Some of it may even earn you accolades, once you leave Morganville."
She smiled slowly. "You'll never let me leave."
Myrnin's dark eyes fixed on hers. "Maybe I will," he said. "But you must give me at least a few more years, my friend. I have a great deal to learn from you, and I am a very slow learner.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“Shane stood up when he saw her, which made her heart turn cartwheels, and he pulled out her chair. Eve and Michael shared an amused look.
"So cute," Eve said. When Shane glared, she smiled. "No, really. It is. Dude, chill.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“What about the entrance to the cave?" she asked. He snapped his fingers as if he'd forgotten all about it.
"Excellent point."
Myrnin dragged the largest, heaviest table over, top down, and covered up with it the hole he'd made in the floor. Then he took handfuls of broken glass and mounded it up on all sides.
Myrnin artistically sprinkled some more broken glass. "There," Myrnin said, and backed off to the stairs again. "What do you think?"
"Fabulous." She sighed. "Brilliant job of camouflage."
"Normally, I'd add a corpse," he said, "just to keep people at bay. But that might be good enough.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

“You are not trapped in the box forever," Myrnin said, "as you well know. But I still need you, so you will simply have to stop your endless wailing and get on with things. If you want an escape, research your way out."
"Or you'll what?"
Myrnin's eyes snapped open, and he bared his fangs - not that he could bite the computer. It was just a reaction of frustration, Claire thought. "Or I'll disconnect your puzzle sets," he said, "and you can read the works of Bulwer-Lytton for entertainment for the next twenty years before I take pity on you.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Carpe Corpus

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