“I didn't trust such general greatness one little bit.”

“This group is known as the watchers. And to be a watcher is a woman's fortune."He said that last bit as though it was the greatest honor girls like us could ever attain. My thoughts turned grim. It was once considered an honor to be a sacrificial lamb, too.”

“I was leaving.Finally.For good.There was only one way I'd ever return to the town of Christmas, Florida, and it involved my dead body.”

“I am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher.”

“I seem to recall Trinity kicking your ass a time or two, Acari Loren. Easy enough with such a wide target."I hated stooping to such ridiculously adolescent taunts, but sometimes you needed to speak the native tongue.”

“I was once a man. As not all men are good, not all vampires are evil.”

“I won't have any paste-related crimes laid on my head.”