“It's not babysitting,” Adne protested. “I haven't had to spank you once, which is a shame.”

“Your city is under attack," he said. 'The wards are down, adn the streets area full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't called you?"Magnus to Alec”

“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”

“Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on you for tripping me as I run away.”

“So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have read, and there is no health in me -- if by health you mean an inclusive and coherent knowledge of any body of great literature. I can only protest, like all rakes in their shameful senescence, that I have had a good time.”

“Victoria made a violent sound of protest. “I am not repressed!”Seht pinched her nipple and watched her resulting shiver. “You have never been spanked or ass-f**ked. I would say that’s pretty damned repressed.” “Bastard!”