“It wasn't a conscious decision nor was it only one bad choice that led him here. It was anger, pure unadulterated fury”

“When it came down to it and the life-or-death decision had to be made, then it was made by you, because you were the witch. And sometimes it wasn't a decision between a good thing or a bad thing, but a decision between to bad things: no right choices, just... choices.”

“Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.”

“We may be half-Filipino, but the other half is pure, unadulterated racist.”

“And all Wes could think, before pure, unadulterated lust draggedhim under, was: Hey, which one of us was supposed to be thestarving lion, again?”

“Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason—in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe’s life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.”