Sherrilyn Kenyon

“You’re a genius!” – Abigail“Ah now, don’t be going on like that. I might actually think you like me, and where would we be then?” – Sundown”

“Sorry. My medium powers are on the fritz, and I can’t channel spirits or bells right now. I’ll get them worked on later. For–” – Sundown“Shh. The wasps are talking to someone. I hear them so clearly.” – Abigail‘Okay, time to get someone to a psych ward.’ – Sundown”

“I might have lost some skin, but I got kissed by a beautiful woman who was happy to see me. I gotta say that’s pretty epic in my book. Definitely not a worst-case day here.” – Sundown”

“This is getting ugly.” – Abigail“Like my great-aunt’s underpants.” – Sundown”

“What is that?” – Abigail “Wasps…A shitload of them.” – Sasha”

“Excuse me, people. You’re both lying in the middle of the street. Might want to move before someone else runs over both your damn fool selves.” – Sasha”

“Jess! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Are you all right? Are you alive? Did I hurt you? Jess? Can you speak?” – Abigail “Yeah, I can talk. But I kind of like the attention you’re giving me. You want to grope a little lower, it’d be even better.” – Sundown”

“I’ve lost her. Can you give me any guidance?” – Sundown“On what? A new personality? Car buying? I’m a Wolf, cowboy, not a life counselor.” – Sasha”

“You didn’t think I was going to kill you that easily, did you? For what you did to her, you are going to suffer every second between now and dawn. I’m going to give you pain the likes of which my mama’s people were famed for. And when I finally end your life, you will thank me for it.” – Sundown“Go to hell!” – Bart“You already send me there. It’s your turn now. Give the devil my regards.” – Sundown”

“You take the air. I’ll get a bike. And you–” – Sundown “Have an app. Track her down, get my car back, and beat the hell out of her…In that precise order.” – Andy”

“You’re right, pup. So I’ll be sending you over to the Ishtar for sin to babysit until I get back. That’ll make sure nothing bad happens to you.” ‘Now, that was a nice shade of indignation mottling the boy’s skin. Quite impressive, really. If he were a tea kettle, he’d be whistling like a train.’ – Sundown”

“I’m not going to argue with you. Don’t like you enough to bother.” – Andy”

“Why would I lie?” – Andy“It could be pathological.” – Abigail”

“You greet everyone this way?” – Abigail “No. I’m usually very nice. But you…you have no idea how much effort it’s taking for me to kill you where you stand.” – Andy”

“You must be Andy.” – Abigail “Yeah, and if you hurt Jess, so help me, I will hunt you down to the farthest corner of hell and make you wish to God you’d never breathed air.” – Andy”

“Don’t apologize. My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.” – Sundown”

“What are you doing?” – Abigail “We tore my room up, remember? I don’t want to sleep with a big hole over my head. Plaster or something might fall down and scare me enough, I could scream like a woman and humiliate myself. I definitely don’t want to do that with Sasha in the house. He’d laugh at me forever, and I’d have to skin him.” – Sundown”

“I’m not as good as a man as you are, Sundown. I find it hard to give an enemy my back under any circumstance.” – Ren“Oh, I didn’t say I was giving her my back. I’m not lacking all my noodle sense. But I’m not holding a grudge neither. Sometimes you just got to let the rattlesnake lay in the sun.” – Sundown“Men? You do know I’m standing in this little box with you and can hear every word?” – Abigail “We know. I merely don’t care.” – Ren”

“You have no idea how much it bothers me to know that I was the man she meant to kill tonight and now I have to protect her.” – Ren“Yeah, well, she tried to kill me, too, and I got over it.” – Sundown”

“Why is the wolf always the one who’s drafted?” – Sasha “The wolf is the one who is most rested.” – Choo Co La Tah“What? You want to toss logic into my emotional outburst? Where’s the fairness of that?” - Sasha”

“Respect must be earned, Ren. Not demanded. A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest.” – Choo Co La Tah”

“The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you’ll ever have.” – Choo Co La Tah“What are you? A fortune cookie writer?” – Abigail”

“My people have a saying. Kirha tahanahna ditari sukenah. To deny the presence of the sun doesn’t escape its blister. I admire your loyalty. But sometimes you have to face the truth, even when it hurts.” – Choo Co La Tah”

“Speaking of friends…why did our new coyote buddies run from you?” – Sundown“I’m that badass.” – Sasha “Seriously.” – Sundown“O ye of little faith. You doubt my rep? My skills?” – Sasha“And your brains.” – Sundown”

“And you must be the cause of this disaster.” – Sasha“I didn’t do anything.” – Abigail“She’s in denial.” – Sundown“Cool. We can feed her to the coyotes then, and I can go back to Sanctuary and continue scoping out this amazing brunette who keeps coming in with her friends.” – Sasha”

“Now, that’s my boy you’re talking about, and I don’t want to get crossed up with you, Sasha. But you keep that tone and attitude about him, and we will.” – Sundown“Sorry. I forget you and Ash are weird enough to actually like him. No accounting for taste.” – Sasha”

“You can’t kill me with a bullet, darling. You’ll just piss me off.” – Sundown“Maybe, but shooting you might be fun. And while I might not be able to kill you, I sure could ruin your social life.” – Abigail”

“He had fangs. So what? Plenty of things not a Dark-Hunter have fangs, including Hollywood actors and kids playing vampire. You should have checked his membership card before you attacked. Good grief, what if you’d run across a Masquerade group?” – Sundown”

“He flipped the channel to another view of the scorpions swarming over a road downtown toward people who were screaming and running to get away from them.’ “Welcome to the apocalypse. Ain’t she pretty?” – Sundown”

“You are not sacrificing me…to anything.” – Abigail “You started this, babe. The choice is simple. Either you die alone, nobly like a good sport, or the entire world dies with you, which I don’t think they’d appreciate much. So put on your big-girl pants and own up to what you and your stupidity caused. It’s Joe Versus the Volcano time. But in the end, I don’t give a shit what you do. With the exception of the cowboy there and my family, I hate people with a passion that makes your feelings for Jess look like a schoolgirl crush. Lovely thing about my current situation, I’m truly immortal. You annihilate humanity and the world…I’m still good. So whatever you decide, it won’t affect me personally. I would say you’re the one who’ll have to live with the guilt. But either way, you’re dead. Whatever. I delivered my message. My job here is done, and I need to get back to the one that I’m still not sure how I let them talk me into doing – which is even weirder and scarier than the Dark-Hunter gig. Jess, call me if she wusses, and I’ll make sure you survive the holocaust.” – Zarek”

“You’re seriously not joking?” – Sundown“Really? How many more times are you going to ask me that? I could be on a beach right now with my wife, son, and daughter, baking in the sun while they frolic and play. Am I? No. I’m here, and I want nothing more than to yank you around with bullshit ’cause this gets me off more than my wife running in a bikini.” – Zarek”

“You’re telling me that Acheron, my boss, the really tall Atlantean pain in most of our asses, actually authorized the killing of a human?” – Sundown “I can see your confusion. It is highly out of character for him. But since she’s been killing off Hunters…I guess he figures it’s tit for tat. Or maybe he’s just having a really bad day.” – Zarek”

“Why’d he call you?” – Sundown“My charming personality.” – Zarek”

“What are you people talking about?” – Abigail “Nothing important. Just the end of the world as we know it, and for the record, I don’t feel fine. Neither will you when it all comes slamming down on your head.” – Zarek”

“Oh yeah, this was bad. The kind of bad they made horror movies out of. In fact, he’d rather be naked in a zombie flick with no ammo or shelter, coated in brain matter and wearing a sign that said COME GET ME, than face what they were going to have to face now.’ “Honey, let me give you a quick lesson. Just ’cause someone’s a few centuries old and fanged, doesn’t make them a Dark-Hunter.” – Sundown”

“Some fool beheaded him around one A.M.” – Zarek“Are you talking about the Native American Dark-Hunter stationed here?” – Abigail“Say you didn’t.” – Sundown “Kill him? Fine. I didn’t…but I did.” – Abigail”

“Think, bud. Fierce immortal who likes to gamble in Sin’s casino, wear tacky shirts, and watch anime.” – Zarek“Old Bear?” – Sundown“Give that boy a biscuit. He finally got it.” – Zarek”

“It’s not what you think, Z. Turn on those god powers and use them. I am not responsible for her knowledge of nothing.” – Sundown“Impressively screwed-up syntax there, Cowboy. Glad I could follow it…Sort of. As for the powers, don’t really have time to scan her and I really don’t give a shit. Rather kill her and save myself the expended energy for something I might actually enjoy…like picking my pose.” – Zarek‘Ew. Someone was socially awkward.’ – Abigail”

“Yes, sir?” – Sundown“Is there a problem?” – Officer‘Uh, yeah. You people are bugging the shit out of me when I need to be rocketing home.’ – Sundown”

“No one wanted to spontaneously combust into flames, especially not in traffic.’ – Sundown”

“You know it might help if you’d actually told all of us about them before we run across them. Had you not shown up just now, I’d have been locked in a useless game of Whac-a-Mole, trying to kill them with a knife through the heart. I could have been gallu Daimon kibble. Really not cool, Sin.” – Sundown”

“And one bite, and I’m their slave?” – Sundown“Exactly.” – Sin“And who thought this would be a good idea?” – Sundown “Don’t get me started. There are idiots in all pantheons. Some days, I think the Sumerians had more than their fair share, and I only hope the idiocy is congenital and not something contracted later in life. Otherwise, I’m even more screwed.” – Sin”

“They can make more of themselves. That was bad enough. Then the Daimons realized they can feed on the gallu.” – Sin“Why do I have a feeling this is really about to piss me off?” – Sundown”

“You have no idea. I had them contained here for a while. Unfortunately, they escaped.” – Sin‘That figured, and it was just like he feared. Suck City Limits was looming in the headlights. He should have known better than to take a detour from Normality.’ – Sundown”

“Pulling out his daggers, he kept them in his sleeves, just in case he happened upon someone who wouldn’t understand why a tall, dark-haired man wearing really dark sunglasses and unseasonably warm clothing would be armed to his fangs. Really, Officer, I was trying to protect humanity by killing these things that suck human souls out to live past their twenty-seventh birthday just didn’t cut it. Why no one would believe that, he couldn’t imagine. Really, the audacity of modern courts and judges.’ – Sundown”

“You better be glad I like you.” – Ren“I am indeed, for I have seen how you throw a knife and it is truly awe inspiring.” – Sundown”

“And here I thought I was being stealthy.” – Ren“With that girly caw you let out? Did a frog crawl down your throat and die, or what?” – Sundown”

“I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown”

“Sometimes dead wasn’t dead enough.’ – Sundown”

“Fine, but answer me this.” – Andy‘Dang, when had the kid turned into the Riddler? He should have curtailed all those Batman reruns when Andy was a boy.’ – Sundown”