39 Quotes by Ben Reeder

Young vamps had a hard time blending in with people because they forgot the basics. They would spend a long time not breathing, or they’d smile with their mouths open. But older vamps, while they could remember the basics better with years of practice, had a whole different level of creep factor when they weren’t putting on the act. They had a way of just going still that made it hard to forget that you were in the room with a walking corpse. Dead people just don’t fidget or move randomly.

I kicked his butt, Dee,” I said. Me, cocky? Nah!

Big rituals like this usually have nine or thirteen parts, and they don’t go off quietly. They’re messing around with reality, so you get the standard ‘portents of doom’ thing going on as they get closer to being finished.” “Like hordes of locusts and raining fire?” “Yeah, like that. Lots of warning.

The guy was lying next to the neighbor’s house with his limbs pointing in painful-looking directions. I was pretty sure arms and legs weren’t supposed to bend in that many places. And I was also pretty sure I’d have a hard time explaining the vaguely person-shaped crater in the neighbor’s second-story siding. Maybe no one would notice. Like, if the police sent over a blind cop with the IQ of an eggplant.

You lied to me, and you encouraged Chance to continue to lie to me. Enraged doesn’t even begin to describe my feelings right now. For now, it’s best if you didn’t talk to me. In fact, moving out of the country for a few years might not be a bad idea.

Let your host believe that you fear him in his own house.

After learning hundreds of hexes, curses, and spells, all of them having variables that had variables of their own, math was simple. Once you solved for x, it didn’t change if the month was different or if the stars weren’t aligned right.

One of the problems with trying to date a werewolf is the danger of having your face eaten while you’re making out, and that had come damn close to happening.

We need to talk,” Donovan said from behind me. “When a girl says that on TV, it’s usually a break up,” I said without looking at him. “But our relationship hasn’t gotten there yet, so you’re just scaring me now.