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I Wronged Him, Katra. Greatly. I Had The Entire World In My Hand At One Time And I Didn’t Know It. I Let Stupidity Blind Me And I Lost Him Because Of That. (artemis) Then Tell Him You’re Sorry. (kat) As Your Father Would Say, There Are Some Things ‘sorry’ Can’t Repair. Some Pains Run Too Deep To Ever Be Healed By Something As Simple As Words, No Matter How Much You Mean Them. (artemis)

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I Wronged Him, Katra.

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I Wronged Him, Katra. Greatly. I Had The Entire World In My Hand At One Time And I Didn’t Know It. I Let Stupidity Blind Me And I Lost Him Because Of That. (artemis) Then Tell Him You’re Sorry. (kat) As Your Father Would Say, There Are Some Things ‘sorry’ Can’t Repair. Some Pains Run Too Deep To Ever Be Healed By Something As Simple As Words, No Matter How Much You Mean Them. (artemis)

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It's Not Fair To Show Someone The Sun And Then Banish Him From It. Even The Devil May Cry When He Looks Around Hell And Realizes That He's There Alone. -acheron

(she Grabbed Him For A Bear Hug.) Stop Sexually Harassing Me, Mom. (nick)

Would You Leave Me Alone, You Walking Pair Of Boots! Let Go Of My Easel, You Refugee From A Luggage Factory. If You Need Some Wood For A Toothpick, There’s A Bunch Of It On The Porch. (sunshine) Beth. What Are You Doing?...she Says She Was Forcing You Inside Before It Got Dark And Something Decided To Eat You. (talon) Tell Swamp Breath I Was Headed This Way. Why Was She…oh Jeez, Am I Really Have A Conversation With A Gator? (sunshine)

Life Has A Way Of Breaking Even The Strongest Among Us.

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You Punk Asshole. What Was This? A Game For You? This Is My Life’s Work You Just Annihilated And For What? Shits And Giggles? Or Was This Nothing More Than A Fraternity Prank? Please Tell Me That You Didn’t Just Ruin My Integrity To Get Some Kind Of Drinking Points. This Is Something I’ve Been Working For Since Before You Were Born. How Dare You Make A Mockery Of Me. I Hope To God That One Day Someone Degrades You Like This So That You’ll Know, Just Once In Your Spoiled Pompous Life, What Humiliation Feels Like! (tory)

You Should Try Them, Nick. They’re Delicious. No One Makes Cookies That Taste Like This.” – Kara ‘probably Because Arsenic Was A Key Ingredient.’ “have To Watch My Girlish Figure. ‘cause If I Don’t, No One Will.” – Nick

Fetch Constantine, Or I’ll Make Boots Out Of Your Hide, Bear. (arcadian Sentinel) Don’t Touch Me, Or I’ll Mount Your Jewels To The Wall Over Your Head. (aimee)

(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)

When Someone Is Drowning And You Try To Save Them, They're More Likely To Drown You Before You Pull Them Out.

Thank You, Shay. (syn) For What? (shahara) For Looking Into The Eyes Of Nothing And Seeing A Man You Could Love. (syn)

Have Any Of You Taken A Look Out At Greece In The Last, Say, Hour Or So? (hermes) What? Are They Reacting To The Fact I Cursed The Apollites? (apollo) I Don’t Think That Bothers Them Nearly As Much As The Fact The Island Of Atlantis Is Now Gone And The Atlantean Goddess Apollymi Is Cutting A Swathe Through Our Country, Laying Waste To Everyone And Everything She Comes Into Contact With. And In Case You’re Curious, She’s Headed Straight For Us. I Could Be Really Wrong Here, But I’m Guessing The Woman’s Extremely Pissed. (hermes)

Desi, Desi, Desi What Am I Going To Do With You? (kyrian) Don't You Dare Take That Flippant Tone With Me! (desiderius) Why Ever Not? (kyrian) Because I Am Not Some Scared Little Daimon To Run Cringing From You. I Am Your Worst Nightmare. (desiderius) Must You Resort To Cliches? C'mon, Desidisastrous, Couldn't You Think Of Anything More Original Than That B-movie Dialogue Staple? (kyrian)

Worst Nightmares

Just Out Of Curiosity, How Many Weapons Are In That Thing? (kiara) Enough To Make Me Happy. (nykyrian)

Do You Know What Happened To The Last Person Who Took That Tone With Me? (xypher) Let Me Guess…disembowelment. Probably Painful. Definitely Slow. (simone)

If Apollo Caught Sight Of Him Outside Or Near A Window During The Light Of Day, Talon Would Be Nothing More Than A Strip Of Fried Bacon On The Sidewalk. Extra-crispy Celt Didn’t Appeal To Him In The Least.’ (talon)

This Is Getting Ugly.” – Abigail “like My Great-aunt’s Underpants.” – Sundown

I’m Going To Make The Wildly Unfounded Assumption That Satara’s Dead By Your Hand And Not Tory’s. Now, Stay With Me On This, Cajun. My Father Slit My Throat And Murdered My Wife Because He Thought I’d Betrayed Him By Getting Married. Before That, He Loved Me More Than His Life And I Was His Last Surviving Child. His Second In Command. Now What Do You Think He’s Going To Do To You Once He Sees Her Body? I Can Assure You, It Won’t Be A Fun-filled Trip To Chuck E. Cheese. (urian)

I Can’t Believe This Night. I Was Supposed To Be Applauded And Instead, I’m Ruined. I Swear To God In Heaven If I Ever See That Man Again, I Will Commit Murder. (tory) Well, If You Need Help Moving The Body, You Know Where Kim And I Live. (pam)

Let Him Go, Julian. His Entire Body Isn’t Worth One Molecule Of Yours. (grace) (to Paul) Where I Come From, We Butchered Worthless Cowards Like You Just For Practice. (julian)

I Might Have Lost Some Skin, But I Got Kissed By A Beautiful Woman Who Was Happy To See Me. I Gotta Say That’s Pretty Epic In My Book. Definitely Not A Worst-case Day Here.” – Sundown

So Who Was She? (vane) Why Do You Assume It Was A Female? (fang) Didn’t Know You Were Fond Of Men. I’ll File That Under My Special Fang Folder. (vane)

Now Don’t You Be Covering For Him, Ash. (she Wagged Her Finger At Nick.) Are You Driving? (cherise) No, Mom. I’m Sitting. (nick)

You Know, Vik, You’re Amazingly Human At Times. (alix) I Know. But I Wonder If The Feelings I Have Are Real Or Just Electrical Stimulations In My Cortex That Simulate Human Emotion. I Wish I Knew If They Were Real Or Imagined. (vik) And That Makes You Completely Human, Sweetie. We All Have Those Doubts. (alix)

Now That I Think About It, You’d Have To Be A Glutton For Punishment To Keep Coming Near Me Given My Acerbic Personality Where You’re Concerned. (tory)

What’s The Gun For? (leta) I Would Lie And Say It’s For Bears Or Snakes, But Mostly I Use It For Trespassers. (aiden) Wow, Dexter, I’m Impressed. Since We’re Not In Miami And You Haven’t A Boat To Hide The Hacked-up Bodies At Sea, Where Are You Keeping Them? (leta)

We Come From A Long Line Of People Who Live To Read Boring Texts – I Think It May Be Why We All Die Young. Complete Boredom. (geary)

We’re Not That Strong Anymore. (hades) Oops, Guess I Screwed Up. Inability To See The Consequences Of Our Thoughtless Acts Must Run In The Family. So Much For My Father Being A God Of Prophecy, Huh? (stryker)

What Do You Mean You Live Someplace Where There Aren’t Any Humans? (danger) In A Realm Far Away From Here. (alexion) Is That Like In Star Wars? A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away? Want To Tell Me Where Your Tatooine Is Located? Is It Anywhere In This Universe? Near Toledo Maybe? The One In Ohio Or Spain? I’m Not Picky. Can I Mapquest It? (danger)

How Did You Know Cassandra Was The Mother? (wulf) I Know Lots Of Things When I Apply Myself. (acheron)

C’mon, Friend. It’s Two On One. You Sure Don’t Look Like You’re Up To Those Odds. (stranger) You Can’t Be Talking To Me. I Don’t Have Prokas For Friends. And I Assure You I Could Gut You Both Before Your Stench Had Time To Catch Up To Your Fall. (syn)

Don't Cross Me Scooby-doo. I'm Not An Old Man In A Mask Waiting To Be Thwarted By You Meddling Kids.

You Know, I’ve Had A Really Wonderful Night Tonight. I Got To Tell Kyrian And Julian That Valerius Is In Town And Spent, Oh I Don’t Know, Three, Four Hours Trying To Keep Them From Going After The Roman. Then, Just When I Could Relax And Do My Job, I Find Out There Are Daimons In The Swamp And No Talon To Kill Them. And Why Wasn’t Talon Here? Because Tarzan Was Swinging Off A Balcony To Save Jane From Cheetah. Now All I Can Do Is Stand Here And Say, Next Fiasco, Please, Right This Way. (acheron)

I Wish I Had Left Him As He Was. I Wish You Had Told Me This Would Happen. (amanda) Told You What, Amanda? That The Two Of You Would Spend The Rest Of Your Lives Loving Each Other? Raising Your Kis? Neither One Of You Have Any Idea How Miraculous Your Life Is. How Many People Would Gladly Sell Their Souls For What You Have. Forget Artemis And Immortality. What You Have Is Infinitely More Previous And Rare. (acheron)

Contrary To What You Think, Not All Preternatural Beings Hang Out At The Local Supernatural Pub Looking For Humans And Dates.

(zarek Attacks Valerius.) Cease! I Know It’s Been A Long Time Since You Were Around Another Dark-hunter, Z, But Remember, Whatever You Do To Him, You Will Feel It Tenfold. (acheron) Pain I Can Take, It’s Him I Can’t. (zarek)

Oh Yeah, Scooby, It Does. You And I Have Gone Round Many A Day. I’m The Reason You Keep Thinking You’ve Had Alien Abductions. (caleb)

Tell Me, Acheron, Is There Anyone You Will Ever Trust Enough To Release Your Soul? (artemis) You Know Better. You’ve Tutored Me Too Well On How Vicious Women Are. On How Much Love Ruins And Destroys. Thank You For The Lesson, Artemis. It Was Just What I Needed. And I Assure You, It’s One I’ll Never Forget. (acheron)

Um, Dr. Alexander, There’s A Couple Out Here Who Say They’re Related To You. They…um…they’re Biker People. (nurse) Hey, Julian. Tell Attila The Hun Here That We’re Okay So We Can Come And Ooh And Aah Over The Babies. (eros)

What Do You Mean I Have A Predetermined Death?” – Nick “did I Stutter?” – Death “no.” – Nick “do I Look Like Webster’s?” – Death “no.” – Nick “then You Should Understand What I Said, Since I Didn’t Speak In Code. Every Mortal Creature Is Born With An Expiration Date. Some Immortals, Too. Set By The Big Clockmaker. But Excessive Stupidity And Moronic Tendencies Can Shorten It. Pissing Me Off Is One Really Good Way To Cut Yours Down To Three Seconds From Now.” – Death

I Just Don’t See How Anyone Can Be So Cold. (kiara) And You Should Be Grateful, Little Girl, To Whatever God You Worship, That You Can Say That. In The World We Come From, I Don’t Understand How Anyone Can Be Anything But Cold. (syn)

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)

What Happened To Cause The Jail Fight? (maggie) They Thought It Would Be Fun To Knock Around The ‘kid’ And Show Off Their Manhood. I Thought It Would Be Fun To Knock A Couple Of Them Unconscious. (wren)

Tell Me Something, Adron. Sometime You’ve Never Shared With Anyone Else. Not Even Thia. (livia) I’m The One Who Glued Zarina To The Toilet Seat When She Was Seven. (adron)

You Will Fail And I’ll Dance On Your Grave. (apollymi)

You Taste So Good. I Could Kiss You Forever. (adron) You’re Not So Bad Yourself In A Lethal, I’ll-kill-you-if-you-look-at-me-wrong Kind Of Way. (livia)

You’ve No Idea...my Tongue Has Been Known To Let Blood On Four Continents. (geary)

Nice Knees, Bud, But The Hairy Legs Could Use A Bush Hog. (kyrian)

You Should Be More Careful. You Could Have Broken Your Neck Or As Big As You Are Landed On Someone And Killed Them. (tory)

I Have A Computer, A Vibrator, And Pizza Delivery. Why Should I Leave The House? " - Tabitha

Courts Of Equity Make Their Decrees So As To Arrive At The Justice Of The Case Without Violating The Rules Of Law.

You Know, I've Walked This Earth For Over Eleven Thousand Years, My Lady. I Have Seen Things In My Life That Are Unimaginable To You, And You Ask Me If I Doubt You? Lady, I Doubt The Very Air You Breathe. (acheron)

What Happened To Darling’s Face? (kiara) It Got His. Repeatedly. (syn)

I Don't Suffer From My Insanity -- I Enjoy Every Minute Of It.

What Do You Want Exactly? (fang) An End To The Mistreatment Of Small, Fluffy Dust Bunnies. (thorn)

You Know, I Really Hate Romans, But I Have To Say Their Descendants Make One Fine Automobile. (kyrian)

Jess:"sasha? I Need Some Tissue To Pack My Nose With." Sasha:"is That Hygienically Sound?" Jess:"sasha..." Sasha:"fine, But If You Get Toxic Shock Up Your Nose, Buddy, Remember I Warned You." Jess Pulled A Couple Out And Wedged Them Into His Nostrils. He Gave Abigail A Sheepish Smile. "sexy, Right?" Abby: "oh Yeah, Baby. You're So Hot Right Now, If I Was A Chicken I'd Lay Hard-boiled Eggs.

Yeah, But You’re A God Of Fate. Can’t You Change That? (kat) You’re Thinking Like A Child, Katra. Things That Appear Simple Very Seldom Are. It’s Like The Mechanic Who Goes To Fix The Carburetor And In Doing So Accidentally Puts A Hole In The Radiator And Causes Even More Damage. Every Person On This Planet Is Connected. Sometimes Those Lines Are Easy To See, And Others Are More Complex. You Change One Insignificant Thing And You Change The Very Core Of Humanity. (acheron)

It Is Of Great Importance That The Laws By Which The Contracts Of So Numerous And So Useful A Body Of Men As The Sailors Are Supposed To Be Guided, Should Not Be Overturned.

What Made You So Unforgiving? (simone) Be Grateful That You Have The Luxury Of Asking Me That Question. Pray To Whatever God You Worship That You’ll Always Be Ignorant. (xypher)

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)

What Would You Like? (maggie) I Don’t Care. I’ll Eat Anything Not Tylenol Or Chocolate. (wren)

Notwithstanding All The Care And Anxiety Of The Persons Who Frame Acts Of Parliament To Guard Against Every Event, It Frequently Turns Out That Certain Cases Were Not Foreseen.

Is The Life You Seek To Take Worth The One You Could One Day Create? (savitar)

Things Are Always Given To Us When We Need Them... You Just Have To Decide If You're Strong Enough, Brave Enough, To Seize It And Make It Yours. (acheron)

It Can’t Eat Him. I Forbid It. (artemis) She Can Do As She Pleases. I Taught Her To Waste Not, Want Not. (acheron)

You Don’t Know About Travis Fimmel? Oh, Sister, You Are Deprived. He The Finest Man Alive. (simi) You Lust For Men? (xirena) Well, I Certainly Don’t Lust For Women. (simi) No, I Mean You Lust For Humans? (xirena) Well, Don’t You? (simi) Ew! What Have You Don’t To Her? You Have Corrupted A Good Demon! (xirena)

That's Right. Uh-huh. Uh-huh," Nick Said Arrogantly. "you Might Know Karate, Boy, But I Know Gorilla, And I'm A Level 40 Champion In It. Let's Hear It For Diddy Kong! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew!" He Mimicked The Sound Of A Gorilla As He Held On For Dear Life.

No, Simi. No Food. (acheron) No, Simi. No Food. The Simi Don’t Like This, Akri. Katoteros Is Boring. There’s Nothing Fun There. Only Old Dead People Who Want To Come Back Here. Bleh! (simi) Simi...(acheron) I Hear And Obey, Akri. The Simi Just Never Said She Would Do So Quietly. (simi)

(talon Pulled Another Beignet From The Sack And Held It Up For Her To Eat.) That Stuff Is Hazardous To Your Health. (sunshine) Baby, Life Is Hazardous To Your Health. (talon)

I Give You Points For Persistence, But You Lose A Few For Being Slow On The Uptake. (rae)

We Never Let Our People Just Go. (joe) What Are You? Wolfram And Hart? (steele) Oh, No, Sweetie, They Just Take Your Soul For Service. We Intend To Take Even More Than That. (tee)

Don’t Be Stupid, Katra. Never Speak In Anger And Never Try To Force Your Will Onto Someone Else. You’ll Never Find Peace In That. (acheron)

My Demon Ate Them. (nick) What Happened To The Jocks? (acheron) Riiiight. And I Suppose The Big Bad Wolf Will Be Coming In Right Behind You To Finish Up? Or Is It The Gingerbread Man I Need To Fear? (nick)

Look, Bud. I’m Trained. Ticked Off. And I Have A Loaded Weapon. You Should Take Particular Note Of The Loaded Weapon Part When Annoying Me. (terri)

It's The Lack Of Humanity In The Human Psyche That Haunts Me. The Hypocrisy. How People As A Group Can Take Something Like Tolerance And Contort It Into A New Form Of Intolerance And Conformity. The Way Humanity Can Justify Any Kind Of Evil.

Alright, Macho Babe Boy, I'm Not Some Little Ditz To Bat My Eyelashes At The Buff Stud In Black Leather. Don't Try Your He-man Tactics With Me. I'll Have You Know, In My Office, I'm Known As The Ball-breaker. (amanda)

Save Me, Shahara. Save Me From The Lonely Nights That Never End. (syn)

Patience To The Spider

Precedent Goes In Support Of Justice.

Where I Come From, Family’s Defined As Those Who Don’t Screw You Over A Pay Check. Blood Makes No Difference. If You Can Trust Them With Your Life And Know That They’ll Be There Come Whatever Hell Rains Down, Then They’re Your Family.

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)

So Would You Like To Join Me For Something To Eat? (jericho) As Long As It Doesn’t Involve The Entrails Of Demons, I Might Be Persuaded. (delphine) Demon Entrails Have No Appeal For Me, Either. Zeus’s Are Another Matter. (jericho)

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)

Man, Wren. I’m Impressed. No Woman Ever Sent Flowers To Thank Me. (serre) Don’t Be That Impressed. I’m Thinking She Didn’t Send Flowers To Thank Him. One Flower Says Thank You. This Many Says She Thought He Was Dead. Or That She Killed Him. Hmm...i’m Thinking, Put A Tiger In Her Tank And That Didn’t Quit Rev Her Up. What She Needs Is To Go Hunting For Bear. (dev)

Kid?” – Kyrian “i’m Not Worthy.” – Nick “what?” – Kyrian “dude, That’s A Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, And Bentley. And I’m Not Talking The Cheap Models. Those Are The Top Of The Top Of The Top Of The Line, Fully Loaded. I Swear, That’s Real Gold Trim In The Bugatti. There’s More Money In Metal In Here Than My Brain Can Even Tabulate. Oh My God! I Shouldn’t Even Be Breathing The Same Air.” – Nick

So Let Me See If I Got Everything Straight … This … Means That We Are Somehow Meant To Be Husband And Wife. But If I Refuse You, You Spend The Rest Of Your Life Impotent And Alone? But I, On The Other Hand, Am Free To Live My Life However I See Fit?” He Nodded. “it Really Sucks To Be You, Doesn’t It?

So How Many Women Have You Visited In Their Dreams? (geary) Is This One Of Those Questions That If I Don’t Answer It Correctly, You Get Angry At Me? (arik)

I Take It That Didn’t Go Well. (cassandra) About Like Walking Into A Bear Cave Covered In Honey. (wulf)

God Forbid I Should Bleed To Death, Eh? Then You'd Have To Cart Around My Rotting Corpse. (kyrian) Could You Be Any More Morbid? Jeez, Who Was Your Idol Growing Up? Boris Karloff? (amanda) Hannibal, Actually. (kyrian) You're Trying To Scare Me, Aren't You? Well, It Won't Work. I Grew Up In A House With An Angry Poltergeist And Two Sisters Who Used To Conjure Demons Just To Fight Them. Buster, I've Seen It All And Your Gallows Humor Isn't Working On Me. (amanda)

But Don’t You Find The Concept Of Love Unusual? (alix) Not At All. Love I Understand Completely. It’s Hatred That Puzzles Me. I Don’t Comprehend Finding Pleasure In Cruelty. (vik)

You Know, There Are Just Some Things You Never Expect To Face Even On This Job. A Flying Primate That Shoots Fire Out Its Nose Is One Of Them.

No One Should Have To Pay For Love In Flesh Or Blood. (acheron)

We Are Coming Up On The Sumerian Apokalypsi–. (artemis) I Don’t Think They Use That Word. (kat) Who Cares What Word They Use? End Of The World Is End Of The World Regardless Of Whatever Term You Use For It! (artemis)

I Admire Anyone Who Can Walk Across A Stage To The Mic And Not Trip.

Now, If You Don’t Mind, I’m Going To Sit Over Here With My Throbbing Feet And Bleed In Silence Until We Get To Our Destination. (syn)

And They Choose Our Mates. (ravyn) So What Do They Do? Jump Here On Earth, Tap You On The Shoulder, And Say, ‘hey, Bub, Marry Her’? (susan)

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

Oh, This I Have To See. I Love It When You Go For The Vernacular. Jugular.

Trust Me, Little One. Everyone Makes Mistakes. Even The Gods, And Ours Are Much Worse Than Those Of Humans. Unlike Humans, We Don’t Suffer Alone. Rather, We Share The Pain With Thousands. That’s Why You Must Learn To Be Like Your Father. To Hold In Your Tears And Anger. Try Not To Punish What You Love. (artemis)

Well, Isn’t That Interesting. (bubba) I Ain’t Your Science Experiment, Bubba. I Don’t Want To Be Interesting And I Definitely Don’t Want To Be A Nubby Treat For The Zombies. (nick)

I Can’t Believe I Was Ever Stupid Enough To Trust Noir. Come To The Dark Side. We Have Cookies. (zeth)

The Hardest Part Of Living Is Making Peace With Your Past. Most Of All, It’s Making Peace With Yourself.

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