Karen Chance citations

“No, Miss Palmer. What is bizarre is that I currently have a.”

“I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me.
I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first." ~Cassandra Palmer”

“He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird”

“Pritkin kissed like he did everything else, straightforward, accepting no prisoners and with an intensity that left me breathless. It was hot and hard and desperate, like he was starving for it, and I opened my mouth and took it, because,.”

“I was alive, they were not. Go Me. (Touch the Dark)”

“How the hell do you think I feel?" I don't want to end up inside a woman!" He paused. "Well, at least not that way”

“He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.”

“We’re going jogging.”
“I don’t run for recreation. I run when someone’s after me with a weapon.”
“That can be arranged”

“Think you can maybe not die for five minutes?"
"I'll try,"I told him seriously.
"You know, if anyone else said that, it would be funny.”

“Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room.”

“No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph.”

“Let me get this straight. First you decide I'm a demon because of a power I didn't ask for and don't even understand. Then when that falls through you label me a fallen sybil and a ho. Am I missing something or do you just not like me”

“You know, dulceata, there are times when I truly believe you are the most frightening person I know.
Thank you?”

“Where. Is. He?" Alphonse repeated, although it sounded more like "Don't make me eat your face.”

“There are things we want, and things we may have…. Sanity lies in knowing the difference.”

“The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.”

“Yes, but knee pants are so much more flattering. You can see my legs."
You want people to see your legs?"
I have very nice legs!" We both paused to admire them for a moment.”

“A legend is merely a history man decided to bugger.”

“Thank you, Captain Obvious."
"I'm on the Senate," he reminded me. "It's Lord Obvious.”

“It's about time! It's supposed to be a ritual, not a marathon.”

“Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it!”

“It's okay. You aren't my type.
What's your type?
Someone who gets into less trouble.”

“You know, I've lived a long time," he told me, massaging my calf more firmly now. "And I met a lot of people. But I ain't never met a woman made me want to beat her to death as often as you.”

“Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.”

“If I'm not supposed to be awake, why are you here?" I mumbled.
"To be the little spoon.”

“Kiss me…. Cassie…. Like you mean it.”

“I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just
disappear, along with everything rich and strange he’d brought into my life.
Vanished, like magic.”

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.
But you’re not dead. I suppose the question must be, are you good?”

“You could say I'm on the troubleshooting squad."
"Troubleshooting?"
He put a hand on the back of his waistband. "I see trouble and I shoot it.”