Extraits

« – Yes, she swore to me, promised me.

– The same say she promised she wouldn’t talk to anyone else about your secret ? he asked.

His eyes were that pale, winter blue now ; it was almost gray. It was the color his eyes went when he was being Edward the assassin. Edward the cold-blooded sociopathic killer had eyes the color of winter skies. Donna went pale.

– Don’t look at me like that, Ted, please.

That meant that she’d seen the look on his face before, but never aimed at her. It also meant she had some idea what that look in his eyes meant. I almost felt sorry for her, but she had brought it on herself. »

« You are being awfully optimistic about the government of our country. It was hard enough to get the United States to allow same-sex marriage. I don’t see multiple partners being legal anytime soon. »

« The upper right side of the man’s body was a mass of writhing snakes. The right side of his face was covered in livid green scales. I expected his eye on that side to be like the snake’s eyes, but it was still a human eye, brown and ordinary, but coming out of the side of his neck and trailing up the edge of his face were more snakes. It was as if his human body was turning into a mass of serpents. »

« – Contract workers, contractors, sounds like temporary office help. What happened to soldier of fortune, mercenary, and all the other cool names I remember from old movies ?

– Try putting soldier of fortune down on your tax return and see how well that works. »

« We hunt rogue vampires and lycanthropes that have murdered people. We keep people safe by killing the things that kill them. »

« It is not power that makes someone evil, it is what they do with that power. »

« Hope is a lying bitch, but sometimes it’s all we have. »

« The difference between paranoia and caution is one simple thing, are they really out to get you ? »