Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!"

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"If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!"

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are very disappointed you have murdered those orphans."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"If you try to leave me like this, I will haunt you until the end of your days. I will drop out of classes and become a hobo and will leave you little garbage sculptures telling you how much I love you. Every morning. Right at front of your door. You will never be rid of me."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to see again."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls managed to continue to have feminine bodies, so many of these tacky sluts have never heard word one about what fashion entails."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"[T]hese friends were of the female persuasion, and while by and large they were bi and large, they still represented potential threats on [her] feminine radar."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would not stop thanking me."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"He's very good at chaining girls. He can make cold steel feel like silk."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from even having a pet larger than his fist, but it also kept him from being kibble."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"The vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"To a vampire, there is only selfishness."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"No one should ever die alone. Rejoin the love of the goddess who made you. No longer a man, no longer a human, you must go as only your essence back to She who made you, into the womb of the Great Mother. You have again become a seed that will form into other lives in other lands."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

"He kissed her forehead and drifted into an uneasy sleep, listening to the soft snoring of the creature on his chest, one he loved slightly more than he had come to fear."

Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

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