“We’ll all have an ice-cream cake to celebrate! Except for we don’t have a freezer!”

“We have loyalty, fidelity, honor--All three are overrated. The only chance you have to demonstrate any of them is to deny yourself something or someone you desire.”

“Call her Betty Fucking Crocker, because the cake was so going to be worth the bake.”

“No ale for the girl, Birgit," Aidan said to the woman. "Do we not have milk?"Regin's face heated. And all the worse, because she would dearly love some milk.”

“Chase:“I don’t have the time or patience for games. Now, tell me, why do you … glow?” Regin:“I touched a radioactive alien cock once.”

“Evie, bed down.” Scanning the dark, he murmured, “You doan have to be scared. I’ve got you.”You do, don’t you? Here we were in the Bagmen’s lair, and I wasn’t terrified for my life. Jackson would killany that strayed too close. In fact, they should fear him.I was with the boy that monsters should fear.”

“Lothaire said, “I have a much better plan.”“Why help him?” Thad asked pointedly. “When you don’t help anybody else?”Lothaire exhaled ruefully. “Incurable romantic.”