Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.


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I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. RACHEL CAINE I'll do it!"
"No, you won't," Shane and Michael said, at virtually the same time. Shane contin...
RACHEL CAINE
Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.
LYNN CAINE
Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves
LYNN CAINE
Shane said, "Don't worry. I'll protect you."
Claire hit him in the shoulder. "I don't need you ...
RACHEL CAINE
Boys. I'd turn gay if they weren't so sexy.
RACHEL CAINE
Claire said. “I might be able to get him to stop.”
“Who, crazy dude? Maybe. Or he might ...
RACHEL CAINE
How'd you get to be so good at this?"
"I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin...
RACHEL CAINE
Yeah, I get it; you're a vampire," she said. "Creepy. And okay, a little hot, I admit."
"You d...
RACHEL CAINE
Shane, in case we don’t … don’t come out of this, I wanted to say…”
He glanced over a...
RACHEL CAINE
Bite me, Goth princess,” Shane called from the back. “Not literally or anything.”
“Mayb...
RACHEL CAINE
Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.”
RACHEL CAINE
She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you...
RACHEL CAINE
You okay?"
"Fine."
"Your heart's beating really fast."
"Gee, thanks. That's very comf...
RACHEL CAINE
He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?"
"Like what?"
"Like hitting on you....
RACHEL CAINE
Doorman: Good morning Mr. Peaknis

Mr. P.: Go to hell
RACHEL CAINE
So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.
RACHEL CAINE
But why can't we just order what we need? Or buy it?"
Myrnin flicked the silver ring on his rig...
RACHEL CAINE
Two more of the gamers Claire had gifted with the invitation stumbled by; one grabbed Claire's arm a...
RACHEL CAINE
You are not trapped in the box forever," Myrnin said, "as you well know. But I still need you, so yo...
RACHEL CAINE
Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore." Eve
RACHEL CAINE
I never forget,” Myrnin said in a choked whisper. “Certainly not with your nails in my throat. T...
RACHEL CAINE
Stay where I am? Jesus Christ, what choice do I have? This house is twenty-five hundred squ...
RACHEL CAINE
Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anym...
RACHEL CAINE
There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of informa...
RACHEL CAINE
[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]
"Don't they teac...
RACHEL CAINE
Claire stretched out against the wall and kissed it. "Glad to see you, too," she whispered, and pres...
RACHEL CAINE
Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped.
RACHEL CAINE
Michael patted him on the shoulder. “I like this plan,” he said. “You and Eve, picking up cake...
RACHEL CAINE
Jason talking about Michael -

"Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped.
RACHEL CAINE
You're seriously going to worry about what people think right now?"
"No, I'm worrying about peo...
RACHEL CAINE
Hey, Mikey? You get her hurt and I'll end you."
"You let anything happen to Eve and I'll do the...
RACHEL CAINE
I’d kiss you, too, if I was closer.”(claire)
“I wouldn’t,” Michael said. “I don’t...
RACHEL CAINE
No,” Shane said. “I’m not leaving you two here alone. We stick together.”
“I’m stil...
RACHEL CAINE
Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.
RACHEL CAINE
The universe explodes, hell freezes, and Shane does something resonable.
RACHEL CAINE
What about Myrnin?'
Eve swallowed, almost choked, and Michael patted her kindly on the back. Sh...
RACHEL CAINE
That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna ...
RACHEL CAINE
At the very leadt, we can grab Monica and hustle her skanky ass back to her dad wile you brave, stro...
RACHEL CAINE
Does it give you deja voodoo how alike the houses are?"
"That's deja vu, and I hate you right n...
RACHEL CAINE
Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway."
"Says the kid who came back....
RACHEL CAINE
Funny how physics didn't go away when you were murdered.
RACHEL CAINE
Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality show...
RACHEL CAINE
He looked down at himself and laughed softly. ‘‘My dark side dresses better than I do.’’ He ...
RACHEL CAINE
Clumsiness would be just as deadly an opponent.
RACHEL CAINE
The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the su...
MARK CAINE
See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more o...
RACHEL CAINE
You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.
RACHEL CAINE
Are you in the car that's almost caused three accidents on North Vance?" Hannah asked. "Because I'm ...
RACHEL CAINE