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He Looked Down At Her. "have You Found That Peace?" Yes, She Had. But It Was So Corny And Cliched That She Couldn't Bring Herself To Admit It. "a Wise Man Once Told Me That Peace Has To Come From Within. We Have To Learn To Like Ourselves Before We Can Find Our Place In The World.

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He Looked Down At Her. "have You Found That Peace?" Yes, She Had. But It Was So Corny And Cliched That She Couldn't Bring Herself To Admit It. "a Wise Man Once Told Me That Peace Has To Come From Within. We Have To Learn To Like Ourselves Before We Can Find Our Place In The World.

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Talon Glanced Around The Loft. It Looked As If A Bottle Of Pepto-bismol Had Exploded, Or The Cat In The Hat Had Come For A Visit.’ (talon)

You Like Rock? Little Boy, I’m Not Your Friend. I’m Not Your Dark-hunter And I’m Not Your Friggin’ Date. You Only Speak To Me When I Ask You A Question. Otherwise You Keep Your Mouth Shut, Your Eyes Off Me, And You Might Live Long Enough To Get Me To The French Quarter. (zarek)

So, What’s Your Style Preference? (grace) For What I Have In Mind, Nudity Works Best. (julian)

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It Was A Typical Day Of Suckage And Blowage.’ (chris)

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The Simi Has Needs. Lots Of Needs. I Need Akri’s Plastic Card, For One Thing. It Very Nice. People Give Me Lots Of Stuff When I Hand It To Them. Ooo, I Really Like The New Plastic Card He Gave Me With My Own Name On It. It Blue And All Sparkly And It Says Simi Parthenopaeus. Doesn’t That Have A Nice Ring To It? I Have To Say It Again. Simi Parthenopaeus. I Like That A Lot. It Even Has My Picture In The Corner And I Am A Very Attractive Demon If I Do Say So Myself. Akri Says It, Too. ‘simi, You Are Beautiful.’ I Like It When He Tells Me That. (simi)

I Don’t Need Friends. All They Do Is Eat Your Food, Drink Your Beer, Then Spew Your Secrets The First Time You Do Something That Displeases Them. No Offense, But When You Have As Many Enemies As I Do, You Keep Your Secrets Under Lock And Key. (solin)

I Know You Were Just Trying To Help. But I Passed The Point Of Help A Long Time Ago. Look, I Know About Your People And Customs, And I Know You Were Raised Inside A Cage. The Last Thing You Need Is To Be Saddled With A Man Who Can Barely Walk. Why Don't You Just Go And Get Your Own Place And Live? I'll Be Happy To Put You On All My Accounts. You'll Never Want For Anything. (adron)i Can't Do That. (livia)why Not? (adron)because I Love You. (livia)

Sway Says You’ve Been Taking Really Good Care Of Him For Me. (claria) Well, His Mom Did A Great Job Housebreaking Him, So He Doesn’t Require Too Much Work. Not To Mention Vik Doesn’t Mind Walking Him Once A Day. It’s All Good. (devyn) You’re Such A Smartass. (claria)

Yeah, I’m Thinking It’s A Reunion Or, Since It Is Our Classmates, A Collection Of Idiots. Let’s Call It A Meese. Like Geese, Only With Morons. (caleb)

What Are You Doing Here? (jericho) Do My Accommodations Offend You? I’ve Grown Quite Used To Them. Though A View Of Something Other Than Mangled Bodies Might Be Nice For A Change. (jaden)

This Isn’t A Game, Human. Listen To The Skotos And Go. We’re Not Bound By The Laws Of The Oneroi. Killing Humans Is Nothing For Us. (dolophoni) Well, Aren’t You All Scary In Black. Ooo. What Are You Two Masquerading As? Evil Man And His Trusty Sidekick Bad Boy? (geary)

I’m A Professional Bodyguard. (leta) Yeah, Right. (aiden) Nope. All True. I Know Seventy-two Ways To Kill A Man And Sixty-nine Of Them Look Like An Accident. (leta)

Has Anyone Ever Won An Argument With You? (syd) Just Tee, And I Was Drunk And Wounded At The Time. (joe)

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You Know, I Keep Having This Really Weird Feeling That You’re Going To Take Me Someplace Later And Tie Me Up So That Your Friends Can Come Laugh At Me. (channon) Does That Happen To You Often? (sebastian) No, Never, But This Night Has The Makings For A Twilight Zone Episode. (channon)

Rocking Her Gently In His Arms, Wulf Wondered Which Of Them Had It Worse. The Mother Who Wouldn’t Live To See The Baby Grow, Or The Father Who Was Damned To Watch The Baby And All Those After Him Die.’ (wulf)

If They Can’t Survive Alone For Four Days Once A Year, They Deserve To Die. (acheron) That’s Harsh, For You. (dante) Harsh? Tell You What, You Take My Phone And Skim Through The Three Thousand Phone Calls I Get Every Day And Night And See How Harsh I Am. I Truly Hate Modern Technology And Phones In Particular. I Haven’t Had A Full Four Hours Of Sleep In Over Fifty Years. ‘ash, I Broke A Toenail, Help Me. Ash, My Head Hurts, What Should I Do?’ (acheron)

Oh, Sheez, What’s Syd Vicious Doing Back In Town? (payne) How’d The Testicle Retrieval Go, Payne? You Still Limping?...thought So. I Got The Thank-you Card From Planned Parenthood Last Week. Seems They Want To Honor Me For Saving The Gene Pool. (syd)

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Keep Your Shirt On," She Said With A Laugh At Her Bad Joke. "your Clothes Are At The Laundry. They'll Deliver Them As Soon As They're Ready." "and In The Meantime?" "looks Like You're Naked." His Jaw Worked As If He Couldn't Believe What He Was Hearing. "i Beg Your Pardon?" "beg All You Want, You're Still Going To Be Naked." Tabitha Paused At The Wicked Image In Her Mind. "come To Think Of It, A Gorgeous, Begging, Naked Man… That's The Stuff Of Fantasies. Begging Won't Get You Your Clothes, But It Could Get You Something Else." She Wiggled Her Eyebrows At Him.

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The Personality Is Defined By Its Inconsistencies, Not Its Consistencies. It's What Makes Us Unique And Who We Are.

These Atlantikoinonia. They’re Human? (acheron) What Else Would They Be? Turnips? (tory)

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He Walks In Daylight. But, Like A Demon, He’s Weaker Then. He Seems To Have The Powers Of A God, But No Followers. What Would You Call Him? (xypher) I Wouldn’t Call Him Anything That Didn’t Make Him Deliriously Happy. (simone)

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The One Thing I Try To Do With Everything I Write Is Open People's Eyes To Those They Normally Ignore Or Dismiss. To Make People Aware Of The "other" Side Of Things. That Someone's Circumstances May Not Be What You Think They Are Or What They Show To The World.

Oh God, I Just Kissed A Vampire!" Oh Gods, I Just Kissed A Human!

Don’t Play That Game With Me, Acheron. Tell Me What I Need To Know! (xypher) Nice Tone. We Should Rent You Out To Record Halloween Albums. (acheron)

Don’t Worry, Chris. The Day That Sony Playstation Attacks The World And Threatens To Destroy It, We’ll Give You A Call. (katra)

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Life Is Serious. (valerius) No, Life Is An Adventure. It's Thrilling And Scary. Sometimes It's Even A Bit Boring, But It Should Never Be Serious. (tabitha)

(unsure If She Should Laugh Or Groan, Astrid Held Fast To The Tank Before Her As Zarek Pushed The Snowmachine To The Limits. It Vibrated So Badly That She Half-expected It To Disintegrate Underneath Them.) Cap’n, I Don’t Think She’ll Hold. The Warp Engines Can’t Take Any More. It’s Going To Blow Apart. (astrid)

I Don’t Want Your Lying Kindness. Sure, You’ll Smile And Be So Sweet To Me That I’ll Trust You, But The Minute I Don’t Give You Everything You Want The Instant You Demand It, You’ll Turn On Me And Try To Crush Me. You’re Just Like Everyone Else In The World. No One Matters But You. (aiden)

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Fine. Sit Around Being Inconsiderate Asses…and You Wonder Why None Of You Are Married. (zarina) (sway Cleared His Throat Meaningfully.) Oh, Shush. You Don’t Count. You Had An Arranged Marriage. These Losers Can’t Get A Girl For More Than Three And Half Minutes It Takes Them To Embarrass Themselves With Their Feeble Gropings That Always Disappoint. (zarina)

I Need Dating Advice. Fast.” Ash Arched A Single Brow At That. “i’m Useless. I’ve Never Been On One.” The Three Human Men Turned To Gape At Him. “what?” Ash Asked Them Defensively. Nick Started Laughing. “oh Man, This Is Priceless. Don’t Tell Me The Great Acheron Is A Virgin?” Ash Gave Him A Droll Look. “yeah, Nick. I’m Lily-white.

It Would Have Really Cramped My Future Plans Had I Died. (nick)

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You Were Impaled? (delphine) You Know The Worst Part About Impalement? You Don’t Die Immediately. You Hang On Bleeding And Aching As The Spike Works Its Way Slowly Through Your Body Until It Pierces Some Major Organ. Pray To The Gods You Worship That You Never Know What That Feels Like. (jericho)

Nick Rubbed His Hand Across His Face As He Tried To Make Sense Of Her Prattle. But That Was The Thing About Simi. She Seldom Made Sense.

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What An Alliance, Huh? A Dark-hunter And A Spathi United To Guard An Apollite. Who Would Have Ever Imagined? (wulf) Love Makes Strange Bedfellows. (acheron) I Thought That Was Politics. (wulf) It’s Both. (acheron)

Julian Was The Son Of Diokles Of Sparta, Also Known As Diokles The Butcher. That Man Made The Marquis De Sade Look Like Ronald Mcdonald. (ben)

Simi? What Was It You Told Me Once About Families? We Have Three Kinds Of Family. Those We Are Born To, Those Who Are Born To Us, And Those We Let Into Our Hearts.

You Live Your Life Like It’s A Rare Treasure To Be Savored. You Take Pleasure From The Simplest Of Things And You Never Take Them For Granted. I Saw The Joy On Your Face And The Life In Your Eyes When You Cradled The Permits To Your Chest. I’ve Never Seen Anything Lovelier. I Actually Thought You Would Cry Just From The Joy Of Touching Them. I’ve Been Numb All My Life, Megeara, But You…you Feel On A Level That I Can’t Even Imagine, And For A Little While I Wanted To Feel That, Too. (arik)

I Want The Tigard. (varyk) And I Want You To Leave. Guess Who’s Going To Win This Argument? And In Case You’re Even Denser Than You Appear, It’s Not You. (dev)

Look! You Got Sparklies Like Akri. He Gives All Of His To Me. He Say I Look Beautiful In Sparklies, ‘specially Them Red Ones That Match My Eyes. Here, Astrid. I Know You Can’t See It, Astrid, But It’s Very Lovely, Like You. You Need To Wear That And Then You Have Sparklies, Too. But Still No Hornays. We Need To Fix You Up With Hornays One Day So You Can Be A Demon, Too. It’s Fun Being A Demon – Except When People Try To Exercise You…wait, That’s Not The Right Word. I Forget, But You Know What I Mean. (simi)

Redemption Is Never Where You Expect To Find It.

Take Care Of Him, Soteria. And Remember It Takes Great Courage And Heart For A Man Who Knows No Kindness To Show It To Another. Even The Wildest Of Beasts Can Be Tamed By A Patient And Gentle Hand. (takeshi)

Man, I'm Messed Up Right Now. My Best Friend Is My Father? The Man I Idolized As A Kid... Whose Tattoo Is On My Arm... And He's Younger Than Me. Yeah, I Don't Think I Can Handle This. Mindwipe Me, Somebody... Please! Where's That Dragon From Sanctuary? Simi, Go Get Max. I Need Him.

You Asked My Opinion And I Gave It. Of Course You Have To Remember That If I’d Been On The Island With Gilligan, He’d Have Been Killed Ten Minutes Into The First Episode. Where I Come From, Incompetence And Stupidity Are Reasons For Justifiable Homicide. (varyk)

It’s A Gift. (artemis) Nothing Is Ever Freely Given. (acheron)

Yeah, I Wish I Could Have Stayed Awake Long Enough To See Your Face When I Changed Over. (wren) No, You Don’t. I Assure You, It Wasn’t Pretty. (maggie) There’s Never Anything About You That Isn’t Pretty, Maggie. You’re The Most Beautiful Woman I’ve Ever Seen. (wren)

Vengeance Only Destroys The One Who Seeks It. (theo- Geary’s Grandfather/acheron)

I Love Him. (artemis) How Can You Say That? You Don’t Even Understand What Love Means. Love Isn’t Being Ashamed To Be Seen With The One You Care About. It Isn’t About Punishment Or Hurt. Love Is What Gives You The Strength You Need To Face Anything No Matter How Brutal Or Frightening. It’s What Allowed Ash To Be Beaten Rather Than Tell His Father About You. It’s What Allowed Him To Be Gutted On The Floor At Your Feet Rather Than Publicly Shame You. And You Spat On Him For That Love And Tore Him Apart. For A Goddess, You’re Pathetic. (tory)

No Problem, But Just Know That No One Steals From Nero. He Knows Who You Are And He Will Hunt You Down And Make You Pay In Ways You Can’t Imagine – Including This Whole Brain Squeeze Thing He Does That Will Leave You With A Migraine So Bad, You’ll Wish You Could Bleed Out Your Eyes To Stop The Pain. He’s Nasty That Way. (syn)

You'll Never See The Moments Coming That Will For Ever Mutilate Your Life-at Least Not Until After They've Mowed You Down. -savitar

Cassandra Sat On The Floor With Chris And Kat, Playing Life. They Had Tried To Play Trivial Pursuit Earlier Only To Learn That A Dark-hunter And An Immortal Handmaiden To A Goddess Had A Decidedly Unfair Advantage Over Cassandra And Chris. In Life, The Only Thing That Mattered Was Luck.’ (cassandra)

And I’m Calling In A Favor. (savitar) Sav, You Can’t Keep Doing This. I’m Running Out Of Places To Put The Bodies. (takeshi)

Intentions Don't Matter. It's The End Result We're All Judged By. Evil In The Name Of Good Is Still Evil. And When You Dance With The Devil, You Seldom Get To Pick The Tune.

So I Take It You Guys Are Going To Stay Inside My Flat And Not Out In The Hallway Like My Father’s Guards? (kiara) You Know That’s The Most Pathetic Way To Guard Someone. (in A Falsetto He Added.) Please Protect My Life By Being Outside So That When They Come In And Kill Me You Can’t Hear It. (syn)

Yes, He’s Like A Rash For Which There’s No Cure. It Only Goes Away For A Bit Before Returning Unexpectedly To Ruin Every Pleasurable Experience. He Should Have Been Named Herpes Rather Than Zt. Or Maybe Just Herpes Z, Since He’s A Very Special Irritant. (arik)

What Is That Smell? (nick) (it Was Like Three-day-old Cat Vomit Mixed With Rotten Asparagus.) Duck Urine. It Keeps The Zombies From Thinking I’m Human. (mark) Yeah, Well It Keeps Me From Thinking You’re Sane. (nick)

What Are You Doing Here? (artemis) I Wanted To Thank You For What You Did Tonight, But As I Considered That, It Dawned On Me That You Have Never Once In Eleven Thousand Years Done Anything For Me For Free. The Sheer Fear Factor Of That Realization Alone Has Made Me Come Seeking You. So What Gives? (acheron)

The Slightest Stirring In The Air Can Set A Hurricane In Motion A Thousand Miles Off. (acheron)

Relax, Medea. We’ve Come To See Your Mother. (tory) Your Funeral. (medea) It’s Always So Good To See You, Too. You’re Just Such A Ray Of Happy Sunshine. I So Look Forward To All Our Interactions. (tory)

You Of All Beings Know How Fate Works. What Happened To You As A Human Happened Because Everyone From Your Parents On Down Tried To Circumvent What Was Supposed To Be – Which Ultimately Was The Destruction Of The Atlantean Pantheon. There Was No Changing That Prophecy. But The Way You Suffered Was Completely Unnecessary. Had Your Parents Embraced Their True Destiny, You Would Have Been Saved Years Of Torment. Fate Will Not Be Denied. We Can Sculpt It, But In The End We’re All Pawns To Our Final Destinies. Good, Bad, Or Indifferent. (savitar)

Where Am I? (nick) Hospital. (kyrian) Really? No Kidding? And Here I Thought I Was At Mcdonald’s. (nick)

You Ever Think About Having Kids?” “all The Time.i´d Love To Have A Houseful. Then One Of My Nieces Or Nephews Turns Exorsist On Me And Spews The Most Discusting Things Imaginable Out Both Ends — Things That Make The Demon Snot Feel Like A Bubble Bath. That Usually Cures Me Of That Stupidity For At Least A Day Or Two.” (sam & Dev)

I Assure You, Princess, If You Saw The Real Me, You’d Run For Cover. (zarek) Only If I Knew You’d Be Waiting Under That Cover For Me. (astrid)

It’s Not Manly To Hurt Others Or Belittle Them. Respect And Kindness Require More Courage Because People Take Advantage Of Those.

Tabitha Was Always Trying Unorthodox Ways To Set Her Up With Guys. Although, To Be Fair To Her Sister, Tabitha Didn't Usually Knock The Guy Unconscious Before She Forced Them Together. Still, With Tabitha There Was A First Time For Just About Anything. And Extreme Blind-dating Was Very Vintage T.

Should I Be Offended? (livia) Please Don’t Be. I Pride Myself On Being Socially Inept. But The Only People I Ever Intentionally Offend Are My Bevy Of Brothers. And Speaking Of, Where’s Big Bad Angry One? (zarina)

You Were Right. My Whole Crew. Gone. Arrested. Perfect. Shoot Me Now And Save Me The Expense Of A Bullet Later. (tory)

Tell Me Of A Happy Memory, Zarek. One Thing In Your Life That Was Good. (astrid) You. (zarek)

Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious And Magical. There Are Those Who Claim That It Never Was. But Then There Are Also Those Who Think They Are Safe In This Modern World Of Technology And Weapons. Safe From All The Ancient Evils. They Even Believe That Wizards, Warriors, And Dragons Are Long Dead. They Are Fools Clinging To Their Science And Logic While Thinking It Will Save Them. (thrylos)

We All Have Regrets, Urian. Nothing That Lives Is Immune From That Nasty Emotion. (acheron) So What? You Want Me To Go Kiss And Make Up? (urian) Hardly. But I Want You To Set Aside Your Own Hurt And Anger To See Clearly For A Minute. This Isn’t About You And Your Father Anymore Than It’s About Me And Nick Hating Each Other Over Something We Can’t Change. This Is About Saving The Lives Of A Million Innocent People. People Like Phoebe Who Don’t Deserve To Be Hunted And Killed. If I Can Stand At The Side Of My Enemies For The Greater Good, So Can You. (acheron)

Hearts Can Never Be Stolen, Cy. They Can Only Be Given.” – Ren

Know What? (wulf) If Halflings Live Past Twenty-seven. But Then Anything Is Possible. I Say In A Few Months We Should Pop Us Some Orville Redenbacher’s, Then Sit Back And Enjoy The Show. (spawn)

Have You Ever Wanted Something That You Knew Was Bad For You? Something That You Ached For So Much You Could Think Of Nothing Else? [wren]

Are You Mad? (artemis) Yes, I Am. Mad At This World Where We Are Nothing To The Gods. Mad At The Fates Who Put Us Here For No Purpose Except To Toy With Us For Their Petty Amusement. I Wish All Of The Gods Were Dead And Gone. (acheron)

I Like That Zarek. He Quality People! He Even Gave Me A Can Opener So I Don’t Have To Use My Fangs. I Like That. Metal Is Hard On The Teeth. Pork And Beans Popsicle. Yummy! My Favorite! (simi)

Man, He Deserves A Hero Cookie. (selena)

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Oh, Gross! Zombie Goo. (caleb) Ooo, I Wonder If It Tastes Like Chicken? What Do You Think? (simi) I Think I’m Never Eating Guacamole Again As Long As I Live. (caleb)

By The Way, You Guys Seriously Screwed Up Just Now. (nero) We Know. (they Said In Unison.) Yeah, Well, What You Don’t Know Is How Grateful Your Girl Is To You. I Just Thought You Should Know That You Guys Are A Hero To Her…and She Thinks We’re All Idiots. (nero)

I Can Tell We’re Going To Get Along Like Batman And The Joker. (fang) Just Remember One Thing, World. I’m The Best Friend You’ll Ever Have Or The Last Enemy You’ll Ever Make. (thorn)

Life Isn't Finding Shelter In The Storm. It's About Learning To Dance In The Rain.

Then He Will Be Called Acheron For The River Of Woe. Like The River Of The Underworld, His Journey Shall Be Dark, Long And Enduring. He Will Be Able To Give Life And To Take It. He Will Walk Through His Life Alone And Abandoned – Ever Seeking Kindness And Ever Finding Cruelty. May The Gods Have Mercy On You, Little One. No One Else Ever Will. (oracle)

For The Record, We’re Not Friends. (stryker) For The Record, I Don’t Care. (savitar)

I Warn You Now. Anything Happens To My Mate Or My Son, We Will Hunt You Down And Rip You Into So Many Pieces They’ll Never Find All Of You. (vane)

I Never Lied To You. (kiara) Of Course You Did –you Said You Could See The Real Us– That We Weren’t As Bad As We Claimed. But You Didn’t And, Just Like Everyone Else, So Long As We Risk Our Lives To Protect And Save You, We’re Okay. But The Moment We Have To Make A Choice Not Ours, The Moment You See What Our Pasts Have Made Us, You’re Horrified By The Truth And Hate Us For It Like We Had Some Kind Of Choice In What We Are. (syn)

I Will Fear No Evil For I Am The Baddest Beast In The Land. (nick)

Where Are My Guards? (wulf) Oh, One Is Right Here, But He’s Not Feeling Very Talkative. Death Has A Way Of Making Even The Chattiest Of People Rather Quite. As For The Other…he’s…oh, Wait, Dead Now. (stryker)

But It’s Like Cherise Says, The Hardest Ones To Love Are Always The Ones Who Need It Most. (aimee)

Death Is Just A New Beginning…at Least In My Religion. And Extreme Inebriation Seriously Helps. (syn)

How Did You Escape? (syd) I Fought My Way Out In A Manner That Would Have Made Rambo Proud. And When I Got Home Without His Body Because I Couldn’t Pull Him Out Without Getting Myself Killed, I Got Slapped In My Face By Everyone Around Me. So Don’t Talk To Me About Death, Little Girl. I Wrote The Book On It. (steele)

I Know I’m Charonte And We Defer To Our Females, But You Have To Respect The Fact That I’m Charonte And We Protect Our Females To The End. You Be My Female. I Be Protecting. (xedrix)

You Know The Beauty Of Driving One Of These? (wulf) No. (cassandra) You Can Swat A Daimon Like A Mosquito. (wulf) Well, Since They’re Both Bloodsucking Insects, I Say Go For It. (cassandra)

You Have To Sleep Sometime. (xypher) So Do You. (julian) Down, Boys, Down. Please, I Just Want To Be Free Before I Get Testosterone Poisoning. (simone)

There Are Certain Irregularities Which Are Not The Subject Of Criminal Law. But When The Criminal Law Happens To Be Auxiliary To The Law Of Morality, I Do Not Feel Any Inclination To Explain It Away.

Oh, No. We Can’t Have That. Where You Going, Mr. Meanie-pants? You Don’t Hurt People Then Run. That’s Just Rude. Can The Simi Barbecue Him, Or Is He On The ‘no Simi’ Eat List?” – Simi

Was It Like This? (jesse) (jesse Made An Inhuman Ghost Noise.) That Sounds Like Darth Vader Choking On A Chicken Bone. (gloria)

I Don’t Even Know What To Say To You. (acheron) Me, Either. I Guess We’ll Just Stand Here And Cry At Each Other, Huh? (kat)

I Waited Two Thousand Years For You, Grace Alexander,” He Whispered In Her Ear. “and You Were Worth Every Second Of It.

See How Exciting Anthropology Is? He’s A Leading Expert In Ancient Greece. Now You Should All Change Your Majors So That You Can Ogle Men Like Him All Day Long. Or Better Yet, Uncover Naked Male Statues. (tory) Was That Necessary? (acheron) Hey, I Live To Recruit Students For The Department. If I Can Make You Good For Something, Then By Golly I’m Going To Do It. (tory)

Ninety Percent Of Intelligence Was Knowing When To Shut Up.’ – Cherise

How Long Till Our Powers Are Back? (kat) A Few Hours According To Last Time. (sin) Sweet, And We Have How Long Till The Bitches Awake? (kat) Less Than Two. (sin) Can You Say Screwed, Boys And Girls? Yes, I Thought You Could. (kat)

I Find You Irritating. (kat) I Haven’t Even Begun To Irritate You Yet. Imagine What I Could Do If I Applied Myself? (solin) I Can Imagine. I Can Also Imagine Ripping Your Throat Out And Tying My Shoes With Your Larynx. (kat)

You Must Be Pain In The Nick.” – Dev “huh?” – Nick “don’t Wet Your Pets. Just A Figure Of Speech. Your Mom’s Been Talking About You All Day, Boy. You Are Her Favorite Topic.” – Dev “well, I Try Hard Not To Be Her Favorite Hemorrhoid.” – Nick

It's Easy To Make Mistakes. It's Living With The Consequences Of Them That's The Hardest.

Your Father Wasn’t A Positive Influence On You, Was He? (simone) Being The God Of Nightmares, He Wasn’t A Warm Fuzzy Bunny. Unless You Count Happy Bunny. Amazingly The Two Of Them Have A Lot In Common…and I Have To Say That I’ve Developed A Fondness For That Pissy Rodent. (xypher)

Glad To See You’re Still Breathing.” – Caleb “glad To Be Breathing.” – Nick

So What’s On The Agenda For Tonight? (danger) Migraine, Futility, Possible Death. Same As Every Night, I Guess. (alexion)

Familiarity Breeds Contempt. By Bringing Them In Close, They Realize That You’re Just As Human As They Are. That’s When The Madness Sets In. They Can’t Understand Why You Have More Than They Do When You’re Just A Regular Human Being The Same As Them. Then They Hate You For It. (leta)

You Have Twenty-four Hours, Horseguy, To Kill Your Betrayer Any Way You See Fit And To Take Your Revenge. Make Them Count. Oh, And Know That You Can’t Let Daylight Touch You. If You Do…well, You Don’t Want To Die Without Your Soul. It’s Highly Unpleasant. Sometime In The Next Few Days, A Man Named Acheron Parthenopaeus Will Find You And Teach You Everything You Need To Know About Being A Dark-hunter. If You’re Smart, You’ll Listen To Him. Welcome To The Madness.” – Artemis

So You Guys Fought Some Daimons, Huh? Wish I Could. Wulf Goes Nuts If I Even Pick Up A Butter Knife. (chris)

Daimons, Vampires, Ghouls, Whatever You Want To Call Them. They Suck Your Blood And Your Soul And Leave You With Nothing. Kind Of Like Lawyers. (selena)

Technical Advisor. Since You Know Our Enemies So Well, We’re Going To Pick Your Brain. (jericho) I’ll Tell You What You Want To Know. There's No Need To Torture Me For It. (asmodeus) Pick Your Brain Is An Idiomatic Expression, Asmodeus. It Means We’ll Have You Tell Us Things. We’re Not Actually Going In There To Mess With Your Head. (delphine) Oh, Thank The Source. I Can’t Stand It When Someone Opens My Skull. It Really Hurts. (asmodeus)

Three Out Of Four Demons Prefer Barbeque Sauce Over Hemoglobin

Oh, Goodie! I Get To Make The Redheaded Goddess Mad! (simi)

In A Dream I Cannot See Tangled Abstract Phallacy Random Turmoil Builds In Me I'm A Addicted To Chaos -megadeth, Addicted To Chaos

I, For One, Am Exhausted. I’ve Been Threatened, Beaten, Bitten And Killed, And That Was Just In The Last Hour. (jericho)

Akri Infallible. Well, Except For A Couple Of Things, And We Don’t Talk About Those ‘cause It Makes Akri Cranky. I Like That Word ‘infallible.’ It Just Like Me. Infallible. (simi)

Humans Aren’t A Protected Class. (acheron) Really? (jaden) Yeah. Savitar Shares Your ‘all Humans Are Vermin’ Mind Set. (savitar)

I Learned The Bad Guys Are Not Always Bad, The Good Guys Are Not Always Good.

There’s An Old Ritadarion Saying. You’re Never More Alive Than When You Walk Hand In Hand With Death. (syn)

I Can'tdo It Again,nick. I Can't. And I Would Rather Give My Life For You Than Have You Give Yours For Me.

It Is A Maxim In Our Law That A Plaintiff Must Shew That He Stands On A Fair Ground When He Calls On A Court Of Justice To Administer Relief To Him.

Oh No, Hon We Were Too Late. Tiger-boy Done Pissed Down The Wrong Honey Tree And Got All The Bees, Or In This Case, Bears, Going Wild. (fury)

To Make An Omelet You Must First Break Some Eggs.

How Frail You Are. I Don’t Want To Hurt You By Accident. (nykyrian) I’m Not As Frail As I Appear. I Know From Lots Of Experience That I Bounce Really Well. (kiara) I Would Kill Anyone Who Hurt You. (nykyrian)

I Don’t Know. There Are Times When I Get The Feeling He Can’t Tell Me From Nynia. I Think He Loves Her More Than Me. (sunshine) No Offense, But That’s Stupid. You And Talon Are Soulmates. He Will Always Love You No Matter Who Or What You Are. You, My Friend, Could Come Back As A Humpback Whale And He Would Love You. He Can’t Help It. The Two Of You Are Destined For Each Other. (psyche)

Why Do I Constantly Feel As If All Of You Are Speaking A Foreign Language? What Is ‘grabbing A Burger At The Hard Rock’ Supposed To Mean? (julian) The Hard Rock Café Is A Restaurant. (grace) You Eat At A Place That Advertises Its Food Is Hard As A Rock? (julian)

Ewwww-eee-wwww. Hey Ash, You Vant To Suck My Blud? (fang) No, Thanks. The Last Thing I Want Is To Catch Parvo From You, Or Some Other Freaky Dog Disease That Makes Me Lift My Leg Around Hydrants. (acheron)

Interested In Some ‘undercover’ Work? And To Think, I Was Actually Having A Tender Thought About You. Do Yourself A Favor, Steele…become Mute.

Yeah, Right. I Don’t Believe That One For A Minute. What Do You Think? I Fell Off A Turnip Truck? (simone) Honestly? All I Was Thinking About Was How Beautiful You Are. How Much I Wanted To Feel Your Skin Against Mine And How I’ve Never Been This Attracted To A Woman Before. (xypher)

We Have Certain Demons Who Are Motivated By The Smell Of Food. They Tend To Get Rather Violent Whenever They Smell It. I Personally Wouldn’t Be Caught Eating Anything Because I Would End Up Dead. You Might Not. But You’d Still Have To Fight Them, And Since Some Of Them Are Rather Ugly And Really, Really Smelly, It Might Spoil Your Appetite. Then Again, Maybe Not. Doesn’t Spoil Noir’s. I Think It Makes Him Hungrier, Especially When He Guts Them. Sick, But True. (asmodeus)

The Use Of Cases Is To Establish Principles; If The Cases Decide Different From The Principles, I Must Follow The Principles, Not The Decisions.

I’m Not A Child. Don’t Talk To Me Like I Am. (kiara) No, You’re Worse. You’re An Adult Who Still Thinks The World Is A Beautiful Place, Filled With People Who Will Help You Just For The Sake Of Being Nice. Wake Up And Smell The Bloodbath And Humility The Rest Of Us Have To Cope With. (syn)

I Know, Baby. I Feel The Same Way About You. Those Words Never Convey What Goes Through My Mind And Heart Every Time I Look Up And See You Sitting In My House. Funny Thing Is, I Always Thought My House Was Full And That There Was Nothing Missing In My Life. I Had A Job I Loved. Family Who Loved Me. Good Friends To Keep Me Sane. Everything A Human Could Want. And Then I Met An Infuriating, Impossible Man Who Added The One Thing I Didn’t Know Wasn’t There.” – Tory “dirty Socks On The Floor?” – Acheron

Pulling Out His Daggers, He Kept Them In His Sleeves, Just In Case He Happened Upon Someone Who Wouldn’t Understand Why A Tall, Dark-haired Man Wearing Really Dark Sunglasses And Unseasonably Warm Clothing Would Be Armed To His Fangs. Really, Officer, I Was Trying To Protect Humanity By Killing These Things That Suck Human Souls Out To Live Past Their Twenty-seventh Birthday Just Didn’t Cut It. Why No One Would Believe That, He Couldn’t Imagine. Really, The Audacity Of Modern Courts And Judges.’ – Sundown

Lydia: Strange How You Always Remember The Pain Someone Gave You, But Seldom The Hurt You Caused Them.

Thank You. (nykyrian) For What? (kiara) For Giving Me A Life Worth Living. I Know I’m Not Worth It, And That I Don’t Deserve It, But I Swear To The Gods I Finally Believe In That I Will Spend Every Moment I Have Left Making You Happy And Trying To Be Worthy Of You. (nykyrian)

About A Hundred Or So Years Before You Were Born, A Dark-hunter Made The Mistake Of Falling In Love With His Talpina. Unfortunately For The Rest Of Us, She Didn’t Pass Artemis’s Test. Artemis Was So Angry, She Stepped In And Banished The Talpinas From Us, And Implemented The Oh So Wonderful You’re-only-supposed-to-sleep-with-them-once Rule. As Further Backlash, Acheron Came Up With The Never-touch-your-squire Law. I Tell You, You Haven’t Lived Until You’ve Tried To Find A Decent One-night Stand In Seventh-century Britain. (talon)

Falling In Love

(the Tree Bend Over. Suddenly, A Hiss And A Meow Sounded An Instant Before Two Cats Darted Off Across The Backyard.) Look, Lanie, It’s Mr. Tomcat Come To Save Me From My Celibacy. Oh, Help Me, Moon Mistress. Whatever Am I To Do With The Attentions Of Such An Unwanted Suitor! Help Me Quick, Before He Kills Me With My Allergies. (grace)

In My Day We Let The Wolfswans Incapable Of Birthing Our Young Die. (markus) Then It’s A Good Thing We’re In The Twenty-first Century And Not The Dark Ages, Isn’t It? (fang)

For A Woman Who Can Handle Herself So Well In A Fight, I Can’t Believe You Got Taken Out By A Defenseless Doorjamb. (ravyn) Given The Size Of My Goose Egg, I Would Argue The Defenseless Part. That Doorjamb Has A Mean Left Hook.(susan)

Now There’s A Sight You Don’t See Every Day, Huh? Two Punked-out Goths Throwing A Christmas Party For Sick Children. (doctor)

Start Walking. When You Hit A Spot Where You’re Gasping For Breath, That Should Tell Us Our Limitations. (xypher) Oh, Joy. I Can’t Wait To Be The Guppy. (simone) Glub, Glub, Little Fishy. Start Walking. (xypher)

Hey, Vader, Keep Your Jedi Mind Tricks To Yourself. That Hurt! (jesse)

Laugh It Up, Asshole. But She Who Laughs Last Laughs Longest, And I Intend To Belly Roll Tonight ~tabitha

I Can't. At Least Not For A While. I Need Time To Get Past This And I Can't Guarantee That I Won't Hurt Him Again. God Knows, Nick Has A True Gift For Saying The Wrong Thing In Any Given Situation. (acheron) You Know He Loves You, Right? (amanda) Yeah, But Emotions Don't Have Brains. (acheron)

Yeah, Well, I Guess I Feel Like All Of Us Misfits Need To Hang Together. At Least That Way We Don't Swing Along. (tabitha)

Simple. Atlantis Can't Be Found." He Scoffed At Her. " You're The Second Person To Tell Me That In Less Than An Hour.

Greek Mythology

Why Would You Train An Instrument Of Destruction? (jericho) We All Choose Our Destinies. Our Birth Doesn’t Dictate Our Future Unless We Allow It. (acheron)

Are You Up? Dressing? (astrid) No. I’m Pissing On Your Rug. What Do You Think I’m Doing? (zarek) I’m Blind. For All I Know You Really Are Peeing On My Rug, Which Is A Very Nice Rug Incidentally, So I Hope You’re Kidding. (astrid)

So…that’s Like Your Pet Monkey?” – Nick (the Tiny Horse Snorted Flames And Whinnied At Him.) “easy, Girl. You’d Do Well To Show Her Respect. She Can Understand You, And She Doesn’t Take Well To Insults.” – Death “sorry, Flicka. Didn’t Mean To Rattle Your Bridle.” – Nick

Since When Does A Dog Care About What It Humps? (dev) I Could Go So Low With That That Even The Gutter Would Envy Us, But…i Know What You’re Trying To Do. You’re Trying To Provoke A Fight With Me So That You Can Legally Turn Me Away. I Really, Really Want To Give You That Fight, Too, But I Have To See Sasha And It Can’t Wait. Sorry. We’ll Have To Hump And Fight Later. (fury)

(his Heart Clenched As She Made A Kissing Noise To Him Then Handed The Phone Back To Vane. Gods, How He Loved That Woman.) Ahh, Tally, Me Lub You Too. (vane) Shut Up, Crotch-sniffer. You’re Not Allowed To Make Lovey Noises At Me, Only My Honey Is. (talon)

Everyone Wants Someone They Can Hold And Love. Someone Who Will Be There To Help Pick Up The Pieces When Everything Falls Apart. (acheron)

See, Sway, That’s What You Get For Flunking Your Pilot’s Test Six Times…which I’m Pretty Sure Is A Record Of Some Sort. If Not For The Actual Flunking, Definitely For The Persistence In Pursuing That Which You Obviously Have No Talent For. Personally, I Wouldn’t Let You Fly A Remote-control Kid’s Plane. (vik) Shut Up Before I Find A Can Opener. (sway)

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