Цитаты из книги The Demon's Covenant

I like the idea that the past and the present are always tangled together, making us who we are.

Jamie turned on his bedside lamp, which revealed that his always-spiky hair had turned into a chaotic blond jungle that tiny explorers could enter, never to be seen again.

"I had this picture of you, you know, all dark and brooding and anguished. Longing for humanity. Listening to piano and violin music. Sometimes you'd stand on top of a tower, feeling impossibly lonely. Then you'd cry a single perfect tear."

• Mae to Nick

“Surprise zombies,” Jamie said faintly. “Fantastic.” “Not really a party until someone brings the surprise zombies,” said Nick.

Being nice isn't the same as being good.

“And speaking of crushes, do I have sunstroke or did Seb just—” “Yeah,” Mae said. Jamie paused, then asked thoughtfully, “Do you think he might have sunstroke?” “Yes, a common effect of sunstroke,” Mae said. “Headaches, hyperventilation, and kissing urges like crazy.”

She was so lost in thought that when her phone rang she almost walked into a tree. “Sorry,” she mumbled automatically. It did not accept her apology, on account of being a tree.

“Do you get embarrassed?” “Do you mean am I worried about people seeing me with my jeans off?” Nick asked. “Sure. Sometimes people are overcome. They fall down. They hit their heads. It's worrying.”

“I came to gaze on your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special.” “Your life is hard.”

“My battle cry would be ‘For blood, vengeance, and my undeniable good looks!’”

“Oh,” Jamie offered in a bright voice. “I could cook some—”

“No!” Mae, Annabel, and Nick all exclaimed as one.

Annabel gave Nick a slightly startled look. He was too busy giving Jamie a forbidding look to notice.

“Look, I am getting better,” Jamie argued.

“I saw you put rice in a toaster once,” said Mae. “I was there when you made that tin of beans explode.”

“It was faulty,” Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. “I am sure of this.”

“You threaten people with words. I prefer swords.”

“You and swords,” he [Jamie] remarked brightly. “Compensating for something?”

The corner of Nick’s mouth curved upward a fraction. “No.”

Jamie: So where did you learn to dance? Mae: I learned to dance in a cowboy bar in the Old West. The boys could shoot the neck off a bottle at a hundred paces, but my moves were too dangerous for them. Eventually the sheriff ran me out of town. Where did you learn to dance, sailor? Jamie: Oh, I learned to dance wearing a lace frock at Madame Mimsy's exclusive seminary for young ladies. They thought I was a good girl. Wrong on both accounts.

"So you took me somewhere that you really didn't want to go and you knew you wouldn't enjoy, and you had a terrible time. You know, that's a lot of guys' definition of a date."

• Mae Crowford

"Make yourself at home. Sorry for being such a shocking host - I can't offer you any refreshments, and I'm probably about to stab you in the liver."

• Nick Ryves

When losing isn`t an option, it doesn`t matter what you have to do to win.