“Surely the woman had more important things to do than to teach my sister how to read. I was waiting for cookies, for fuck's sake.”

“they bread the chicken fingers in Cap'n Crunch cereal. Yeah. Take a moment to absorb how incredible that is, because once you do, you're going to be checking yourself and a platter of that shit into t he nearest hourly motel.”

“I've never met a Labradoodle who wasn't an asshole.”

“Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.”

“But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.”

“What we do today is more important than what we plan to do in the future.”

“Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.”