“Stand warned, lovelies. Initiates are encouraged to teach you cruelty. An you should thank them for it. For to understand cruelty is to know strength.”

“You were banging hard enough to wake the dead.""And you're lovely enough to rouse them.”

“Them's wolves, not girls.”

“The world doesn't revolve around you, Drew.""Well, my world does.”

“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.”

“It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.”

“He had dirty-blond good looks to match a dirty-good smile. Yes, dirty. There was just enough twinkle in his smiling brown eyes to suggest there might be all manner of naughty-guy impulses rattling around that cute body of his.”