“You'll see. She can be nice sometimes.”

“Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore. It’s hard, but it’s true.”

“Nice dress Zoey. It looks just like mine. Oh, wait! It used to be mine.Aphrodite laughed a throaty, I'm-so-grown-and-you're-just-a-kid laugh. I really hate it when girls do that.I mean, yes, she's older, but I have boobs, too.”

“Did you just curse? Isn't 'hell' - she air quoted - "a cursed word?""How 'bout you go straight there and see?”

“Over Kyle's shoulder she could see grandpa, looking like a cross between a grizzly bear and a giant pissed-off blowfish.”

“I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.”

“But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don’t want to do.”