Quotes from book

Darkfever

“Electric, wild, one foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out. And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was.
(Mac about Barrons)”

“Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.”

“Holy water at my wrists and behind my ears; my version of Eau de Don'tbiteme”

“I never thought there might be one like you out there. Unaware, untrained.
Unbelievable. You have no idea what you are, do you?”
“Crazy?”

“What are you" -Mac

"I don't follow" -Jericho

"You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac

"A man with a rope." -Jericho”

“He'd surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, not born.”

“Being threatened seems to being out the worst in me.”

“You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!”

“Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be
calling pubs poos?"
"Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.”

“I wondered what one wore to visit a vampire. The chic red sweater set didn't go so well with my darker hair, and I was afraid it might be construed as a flirtatious invitation to color me bloodier.”

“I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.”

“He just didn't look like the kind of creep that would messily murder a woman in her hotel room; he looked like the kind of creep that could line her up in the sights of an assassins rifle without a shred of emotion.”

“Mac." He said my name and laughed. "What a name for something like you. Mac.”

“He was on me before my brain processed the fact that he was coming for me.”

“If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies.”

“It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.”

“Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was supple, sinuous. I was one great big come-hither.”

“Will an hour be enough?”
An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. “I’ll see what I can do,” I said coolly. I was ready in twenty minutes.”

“If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control”