“I can wait beyond never.”

“Imagine that it's sugar," Korbyn said. 'You're riding across candy.'"Salt can never be sugar," Fennik said."We should talk about the definition of the word 'imagine'.”

“Fennik growled. "You mock me."Korbyn's face was innocent, like Jidali's after he sneaked a cookie from Aunt Sabisa. "I would never mock such an illustrious personage," Korbyn said.”

“You’ll never make it through life if you let irrational fears freeze you all the time.”

“Tara. I'm a vampire," Pearl said."Yeah, whatever, and I'm queen of the sea.""Your Marine Majesty, I'm a vampire," Pearl said.Concentrating, she slid her fangs out. "Tara. Tara!" She curled back her lips to expose the points. "See"Tara screamed."I won't hurt you," Pearl said. Calm down. Sheesh."Tara continued to scream.Pearl considered biting her merely to shut her up. Regrettably that would be counter productive. Studying her nails, she waited for Tara to quit screaming. She noticed that Tara didn't try to exit the car, which was an interesting choice."You aren't running away," Pearl said."Duh, it's raining outside," Tara said.”

“I hope I haven't hurt your feelings,' he said.'I don't have feelings, at least not the inconvenient ones.”

“Impressive vocabulary," Korbyn said. "I feel as though I should take notes.""I think she's making them up," Liyana said. "Half of them are not anatomically possible.”