Цитаты из книги The Demon's Surrender

He meant something to her, and that meant he could hurt her.

"Listen, I don`t want to hurt you." Sin smiled her most gorgeous smile at him. "That`s wonderful news! Can you tip your head back just so and expose your jugular?"

Sin smiled the sweet smile of a girl with a pocketknife already in her free hand.

"There`s no artistrly to shooting a crossbow," Sin said. "You just need to know how to aim and then put a big bold right through someone." "That," Nick said with conviction, "sounds like my idea of good time."

"Got to go," he said, when Sin slid into the bench opposite him. "Secret girlfriend?" "Secret travelling circus," Nick said. "They`re all very special to me. Particularly the Bearded Lady." "I`m so thrilled you found love at last."

"What if they decide you`re useless and they kill you?" A corner of Alan`s mouth went up. "Then they really won`t have any leverage over Nick at all, will they? He`ll be safe. He won`t do anything terrible, except to them. He`ll be allied with the right people. He`ll be all right." "You, however, will be dead," Sin reminded him. Alan seemed calm, even though he still looked sick and shaky. "I admit the situation is not ideal."

"So I heart you tried to kill a guy with a paintbrush." "Don`t try to stiffle my artistic self-expression."

I would have welcomed you to the Goblin Market. But I can`t— I won`t welcome you into my place.

"So it`s that you don`t like being turned down," Sin said, and smiled deliberately up at Nick. "Well," Nick said, "it`s just that it doesn`t happen to me often. It`s like a whole new world. I`d ask for advice, but I imagine it doesn`t happen to you that often either." He didn`t smile back, but the compliment was enough to keep Sin smiling, side by side in the shadow of a tree. "It never happens to me," Sin told him, her eyes sliding back to Mae and Alan. Unlike a demon, she could lie.

Sin felt like she was chocking, at how the stakes had been raised, how the impossible had now become something that absolutely must be done.

I sprayed it with a fire extinguisher. When it slowed down, I hit it with the fire extinguisher. Then I hit it again. It was a triumph of mind and fire extuinguisher over matter.

"You sent a necromancer`s sharp-edged little plaything into my school! Someone could have been hurt." "I take it nobody was," Merris said. "Well done."

"I didn`t come down here to yell at you." Alan looked slightly alarmed. "Did you come down here to throw things?"

She was never so aware of her body as she was as she danced, of her body as a weapon honed for to a perfect edge and a decoration polished until it was perfectly irresistible. Every pair of eyes resting on her, every breath she took away, was a triumph.

You`re so irresistible to woman, Alan. Pity your charm only works on those over fifty or under five.

The man took a step toward her and she felt a flash of triumph. She had him, like a fish on a line. "What are you doing right now?" he asked. "She`s busy being underage," said the most irritating voice in the world.

"I don`t see what you have against Alan," Mama said predictably. "He's very gifted." <...> "I know. Being so boring and yet so irritating at once, that`s a gift."

That boy`s creepy. I`m saying this as someone personally acquainted with fifteen necromancers.

Nick and Sin weren`t exactly friends. It was hard to be friends with Nick. He was the best dancer she`d ever seen, though, and that made her like him. Sin respected talent, and it was hard to dislike anyone when you loved to watch them move.