“I was looking for a way to be someone else,'I said.”

“I thought it was just a picture of madness. But that wasn't. It was a message, it has to be, those words are too specific.”

“I am sure of nothing except that to believe you know where you are headed is not to understand where one is at the moment.”

“The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.”

“Let's go, Kitten, before you kill someone else. -Bones”

“Oh, I have feelings for him, all right. I'd like to put him in the ground myself, believe me. Still, it would be wrong. Promise me." "Fine. I promise I won't kill him."He said it too easily. My eyes narrowed. "Promise me right here and now that you will also never cripple, maim, dismember, blind, torture, bleed, or otherwise inflict any injury to Danny Milton. Or otherwise stand by while someone else does as you watch." "Blimey, that's not fair!" he protested”

“Drive-ins," Vlad said, his lip curling in a way that said he hadn't been a fan of them even when they were popular. "I suppose that's better than a regular theater. Less people at drive-ins, and if they're anything like I remember, most of the humans there won't be concentrating on anything but fornicating anyway."His disdainful tone almost made me laugh. Who knew the reputated scourge of the underworld looked down his nose at drive-in nookie?"Not everyone had their own castle to go back to when they were young and horny," I said, my lips twitching.The look he threw me was more than cynical. "My youth was spent in constant war, not the pursuit of tender seductions.”