P.C. Cast

“Soul mates do always find each other, Artemis thought.”

“Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.”

“I'm always going to keep your heart safe, even if mine has to stop beating for that to happen.”

“Oh, for crap's sake, I can barely look at it," Aphrodite said, turning her head from the archway and averting her eyes. "And I usually love sparkly things.”

“What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family?I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.”

“You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just--clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich.""That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream?" "Of course I was the cream. Sha."--Eve Rosser, The Drama Queen's Last Dance (Rachel Caine)”

“zoey: Holy crap, Aphrodite! Could you not sneak up and scare me?Aphrodite: No one was sneaking and holy crap is that a curse? Cause if it is i'm afraid i'm going to have to wake up the potty mouth police and have them make an arrest. So Stark's not dead yet.Zoey:Gosh, thanks for the update. You just made me feel so much better.Aphrodite:Don't be a pain in my ass while i'm trying to be nice.”

“Nice dress Zoey. It looks just like mine. Oh, wait! It used to be mine.Aphrodite laughed a throaty, I'm-so-grown-and-you're-just-a-kid laugh. I really hate it when girls do that.I mean, yes, she's older, but I have boobs, too.”

“Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous--a living, breathing Batman.”

“You'll see. She can be nice sometimes.”

“Nefertiti, the most beautiful calico in the world, chose me as her own six short years ago.”

“Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean.”

“That man is such a damn turd monkey.""Grandma!" I said. "Oh, Zoeybird, did I just call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey out loud?""Yes, Grandma, you did."She looked at me, her dark eyes sparkling. "Good.”

“No, Zoey."Heat sounded pissed.It's not okay here. Not for you."Well, maybe that's 'cause I'm not dead. Yet.”

“no matter what bullshit you heard, hes still mine! he'll always be mine”

“Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.”

“The guy I'd felt such an immediate and deep connection to I'd thought that just maybe there really were such things as soul mates, and had considered, at least for a few brief moments, that he might be mine.”

“Okay, well, let's do a little reenactment. I'm the gay-looking DiCaprio and you're Rose. You have to keep your eyes open and on my face, or you'll have to let me go and I'll turn into a huge gay Popsicle.”

“Your as slow as a fat kid on crutches”

“I'll find you again. Even if it takes a hundred of those years.”

“I believe there is little you cannot do once you set your mind to it.”

“Surrender is a powerful force.”

“There's some shit you just can't control.”

“I've loved you for as long as I can remember, and I'm going to love you for the rest of my life.”

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”

“A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it," he said.”

“Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.”

“What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?”

“Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.”

“But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don’t want to do.”

“Change can be weird or even queer. But change has to happen for things to grow--for us to grow. And change isn't so bad when you're not in it alone.”

“I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing about be as bad as being stuck here.Nothing.”

“I waited for my thighs and butt to uncramp. Of course, they didn't know the loosening rule. They were screaming things like *Are you crazy? Do you know we're thirty-five years old? Sit down and feed us a Twinkie!”

“Or maybe I had known him or maybe there's something that happens between some people at a level that goes beyond time measurements and what society thinks is proper. Maybe what had happened between Stark and me in those few minutes in the field house had been enough to have our souls recognize each other. Soul mates? Was that even possible?”

“As with all my children, you must find your own path, and through that discovery, you will decide what each earth child must ultimately decide-whether she chooses chaos or love.”

“If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you that I hit Erik?' Stark asked me in a pleasant, nonchalant voice.”

“Zo, I'm not a damn pussy!'Erik, looking very tall and full-grown, kick-your-butt vampyre-like, snorted sarcastically and then said, 'No, you're a damn human. Wait, that does make you a pussy!”

“ohmygod. did all hell just freeze over?”

“Morrigan "Don't worry I'm following my instincts."Birkita "Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts"Morrigan "I'm eighteen, nothing I do is prudent”

“man, i would have peeled off my shirt faster than you can say bubba loves trucks.”

“You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.”

“But you don't belong here! You're dead!"I sobbed against his chest. "Zo,babe,this is the Otherworld. It's not me who doesn't belong here-it's you." Memory crashed over me, drowning me with despair and darkness and reality as my world shattered,and evrything went black.”

“Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies.”

“Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely.Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.”

“when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.”

“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”

“So I was beginning my new life as a anomaly, which figured about as much as it sucked.”

“Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don't have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies.”