Veronica Wolff

“The world doesn't revolve around you, Drew.""Well, my world does.”

“I wouldn't let him distract me. "Your accent gets thicker when you're being...improper.""Improper, is it?""Inappropriate.""Indelicate?" He waggled his brows just before her rounded a corner, disappearing into shadows.”

“You were banging hard enough to wake the dead.""And you're lovely enough to rouse them.”

“I was once a man. As not all men are good, not all vampires are evil.”

“I seem to recall Trinity kicking your ass a time or two, Acari Loren. Easy enough with such a wide target."I hated stooping to such ridiculously adolescent taunts, but sometimes you needed to speak the native tongue.”

“He had dirty-blond good looks to match a dirty-good smile. Yes, dirty. There was just enough twinkle in his smiling brown eyes to suggest there might be all manner of naughty-guy impulses rattling around that cute body of his.”

“Teenage hormones plus a few hot guys equals Barbie blood bath.”

“Them's wolves, not girls.”

“Stand warned, lovelies. Initiates are encouraged to teach you cruelty. An you should thank them for it. For to understand cruelty is to know strength.”

“It appeared that spending my formative years getting smacked around by my dad may have earned me the privileged of getting smacked around by a bunch of vampires.”

“This group is known as the watchers. And to be a watcher is a woman's fortune."He said that last bit as though it was the greatest honor girls like us could ever attain. My thoughts turned grim. It was once considered an honor to be a sacrificial lamb, too.”

“His eyes were slitted and intense, like he might need to have sex at any moment.”

“The faint bruise on the side of her cheek had paled to a sickly yellow.Imagine that. She'd fallen in the shower. Again.Just ask Daddy.”

“I was leaving.Finally.For good.There was only one way I'd ever return to the town of Christmas, Florida, and it involved my dead body.”

“I am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher.”

“I didn't trust such general greatness one little bit.”

“I won't have any paste-related crimes laid on my head.”

“Maybe we'll have vampire prom."He shot me an appalled look. "What is this, Twilight?”