“Why was I mad? Because he'd surprised me with a really nice hotel room. What a bastard.”

“Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?”

“That kiss was really nice you know before you...bit me, but it was still nice.”

“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”

“It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.”

“I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.”

“I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity,like a vicious version of Athena.”