“Perv."
He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“But that quickly faded, and he frowned. "You're bleeding," he said. "What happened?"
Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the bandage. "Man, you would be so embarrassed if I said it was something else." Michael looked blank. "I'm a girl, Michael, it could have been all natural, you know. Tampons?”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Eve: She told me last!
Shane: Boyfriend!
Michael: Landlord!
Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact!”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“You shouldn't be afraid of me because I'm a vampire. You ought to be scared because you just trash-talked my girlfriend to her face.--Michael”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice?
Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Where's your sense of adventure?"
"Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“I like the sound of that, crashing Monica's party," he glanced at Michael, then quickly away. "What about you? That break some kind of vampire rules or something?"
"Blow me Shane."
"Boys," Eve said primly. "Language. Minor at the table."
"Well," Shane said, "I wasn't actually planning to do it."
Claire rolled her eyes. "Not like it's the first time I've heard it. Or said it."
"You shouldnt say it," Michael said, all seriousness. "No, I mean it. Girls should say 'eat me' not 'blow me'. Wouldn't recommend 'bite me' though. Not around here.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Oh -- who's the Queen?"
"Her, of course. The White Queen. You're just like Alice, you know. Down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Monica's eyes were fierce and fiery, but she didn't move, and after a second she turned and ran up the steps to the second floor, where her formally dressed friends were huddled like the cast of Survivor: Abercrombie & Fitch Island.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“And about Shane, I swear, if he doesn't snap out of it, I'm going to punch him in the face. Well, punch him in the face and then run like hell."
- Eve Rosser”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Besides," Shane said "I want to see Monica's face
when she catches sight of the two of you. Kodak moment.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini,”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“And somewhere in heaven, Versace sheds a single, perfect tear.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Trav, if you cross us -- "
"I know. You'll get me. I'll try not to pee all over myself in terror.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?"
"If I have to.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Give the girl some credit. At least she told you, instead of letting you figure it out on your own."
"Yeah, and she told me last!" Eve glared at the two boys, hands on her hips.
"Boyfriend," Shane said, holding up his hand.
"Landlord," Michael chimed in.
"Crap," Eve sighed. "I guess that does leave me in last place.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Home," he repeated. "Home is where the heart is. Why don't you leave yours here? I'll take very good care of it.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“I'm more worried about you," she said. "You and trouble..."
"yeah." She heard the smile in his voice. "We're like that.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know"
"Yeah," she muttered. "You said.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Shane groaned. "Yo, Drama Princess, want to tone it down a little? Somewhere, Sandra Bernhardt wants her tantrum back.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Claire sighed. She supposed people always did like that sort of girl, and always would. And secretly? She envied Monica's confidence. Maybe just a little, traitorous bit.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“She's nice when it suits her. That doesn't mean she's nice.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“It's called being polite; they probably didn't teach you that at home. Doesn't mean I like you or anything.”
― Rachel Caine, quote from Midnight Alley
“Somewhere int he flesh of the earth the dreadful earthquake shuddered, the tide walked to and fro on the leash of the moon, rainbows formed, winds swept the sky like giant brooms piling up clouds before them, clouds which writhed into different shapes, melted into rain or darkened, bruised themselves against an unseen antagonist and went on their way, laced with forking rivers of lightning, complete with white electric tributaries. Out of this infinite vision an infinity of details could be drawn, but Sonny had settled on one, and from the endless series a particular beach was chosen and began to form around Laura - a beach of iron-dark sand and shells like frail stars, and a wonderful wide sea that stretched, neither green nor blue, but inked by the approach of night into violet and black, wrinkling with its own salty puzzles, right out to a distant, pure horizon.”
― Margaret Mahy, quote from The Changeover
“But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in Spirit.”
― quote from Arousing Love
“To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.”
― Rafael Sabatini, quote from Scaramouche
“The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, quote from Emile or On Education
“SEA OF LIFE
This is not the end, my friend.
Just as the ocean sings songs to infinity
Our friendship too will flow onward
Until the day one of us
Turns and leaves
And the seasons will turn too
As our shells
As they return back to sand
And the tides that brought us
Forth
Will take us back
Again.
I will never leave you, my friend.
Every time you see a wave rushing to
Meet another,
Two friends unite.
Every time you see a wave crashing,
Two friends depart.
The journey will go on, my friend.
Our memories are recorded
In seashells
To show and tell
The lessons learned
In these heavens and hells
Part of this sea of life -
And when the tide is right,
We shall cross paths again
When the ocean sings our song.
Poetry by Suzy Kassem”
― quote from Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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