Quotes by Rachel Caine

You okay?Fine.Your hearts beating really fast.Gee, thanks. Thats very comforting that you can hear it.He smiled, and it was the old Michael, the one shed first met before all the vamp stuff.Yeah, I know it is. Sorry. Just stay behind me if theres trouble.You sound like Shane.Well, he did say hed kill me if I got you hurt. Im just looking after my own neck.Liar.

She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if hes not... you know, better.Define BETTER with that guy.Not all fangs and raaaaar.

Here, Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone. He picked up the next part and slotted it in, took the screwdriver from Claires numbed fingers, and fastened it with a couple of deft, fast movements. Ill be your hands.She wanted to cry, because it was so sweet, but it wouldnt do any good.

Youre kidding, Shane said. Do you think I want to visit Crazy McTeeth in his lair of insanity?No, Claire said, but Im pretty sure you wont like it if I go alone when I just kind of promised to be with you. So...?Right. Ive been missing Nutty McFang anyway.Stop making up names for him.What about Count Crackula?Just stop.

Sure,” she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?”Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.Besides everything, I mean,” she said.

Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, Dont do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

Oliver laughed - actually laughed.I like this new Claire, he said. You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. Shes interesting when shes forthright.Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.

Dont run I never liked fast food

Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.

Maybe I should, I dont know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I dont want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.

Shut up! Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. Jackass!You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome,

See? she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. She doesnt stomp around like a cattle stampede!Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either!

Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.”“I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. I doubt you have the capacity.

Bite me, Goth princess,” Shane called from the back. “Not literally or anything.”“Maybe you should say that to Michael.”“Not funny, Eve,” Michael said.Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. “Little bit,” she said.

Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue. Shane shrugged. He hits like a girl, for a vampire.

He started to touch the mechanism under the keyboard, then pulled his hand back with a snap.Ah, he said. Must deactivate the security....Turn around, please.What?Turn around, Claire. Its a secure password!You have GOT to be kidding.Why ever would I joke about that? Please turn.

Shane, in case we don’t … don’t come out of this, I wanted to say…”He glanced over at her, and she felt her whole body warm from it. She remembered that look. It made her feel naked inside and out, but not in a creepy kind of way. In a way that felt…. Free. “If what you say is true, and I guess it has to be, I think I know why we’re … together,” he said. “I think I’d fall for you no matter what, Claire. You’re kind of awesome.

Yeah, I get it; youre a vampire, she said. Creepy. And okay, a little hot, I admit. You dont mean that. Come on. I still like you, you know, even if you... crave plasma. Michael blinked and looked at her as if he had never seen her before.You what?Like. You. Eve enunciated slowly, as if Michael might not know the words. Idiot. I always have. What, you didnt know? Eve sounded cool and grown-up about it, but Claire saw the hectic color in her cheeks, under the makeup. How clueless are you? Does it come with the fangs? I guess I... I just thought... Hell. I just didnt think... Youre kind of intimidating, you know. Im intimidating? Me? I run like a rabbit from trouble, mostly, Eve said.Its all show and makeup. Youre the one whos intimidating. I mean, come on. All that talent, and you look... Well, you know how you look. How do I look? He sounded fascinated now, and hed actually moved a little closer to Eve on the couch. She laughed. Oh come on. Youre a total model-babe. Youre kidding.You dont think you are?He shook his head. Then youre kind of an idiot, Glass. Smart, but and idiot. Eve crossed her arms.“So? What exactly do you think about me, except that I’m intimidating?”“I think you’re…you’re…ah, interesting?” Michael was amazingly bad at this, Claire thought, but then he saved it by looking away and continuing. “I think you’re beautiful. And really, really strange.”Eve smiled and looked down, and that looked like a real blush, under the rice powder. “Thanks for that, “ she said, “I never thought you knew I existed, or if you did, that you thought I was anything but Shane’s bratty freak friend.”“Well, to be fair, you are Shane’s bratty freak friend.”“Hey!”“You can be bratty and beautiful,” Michael said. “I think it’s interesting.

Howd you get to be so good at this?I had a good teacher.Better not have been Myrnin or Ill have to kick his predatory ass.I mean you, dummy.Oh.

Now, said Brandons low, cold voice. Lets not be rude eve.