“Kiara shook her head at his dry wit that he delivered in a perfect deadpan monotone. He was strangely entertaining in a lethal, 'I'll rip out your heat and eat it' kind of way.”

“So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara)No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)”

“Oh my God…How could he do such a thing? What kind of monster is he? (Kiara)You think you’re so unsullied. How dare you sit there like some high queen dispensing her judgment on us. Don’t waste pity on Arast. If he’d been given the chance, he’d have raped you slowly and in ways you can’t even conceive of, then cut you into little pieces and fed you to his dogs. All except your head with your contorted fear permanently twisted on your pretty little face – that he would have sent home to your father as a present, but only after he’d been paid. And that’s nice compared to what he’d have done to Nykyrian. To what he’s done to Nykyrian in the past. (Syn)”

“Youever insult Bride again, I swear I'll rip your throat out and feed you to thegators in the swamp. You understand me?" - Vane”

“Julian dipped his head to her ear where he nuzzled her neck. “I will love you forever,” he whispered.”

“Excuse me?" Jess asked in disbelief. "This is Frozen Zarek I'm talking to, right? Not some weird pod person?"He shook his head at Jess's joking. "It's me, dickless.""Hey, now, that's way too personal. I don't need to know that much about you.”

“Even if he doesn’t eat, he knows the cookies. I’ll bet his mother stuffed him full as a kid. (Tory)Not really. My mom wasn’t the Betty Crocker kind. (Acheron)(Not unless it involved napalm or plagues.)”