Morganville Vampires Myrnin Quotes

#1. Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.

Rachel Caine

#2. Don't worry ... Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming.

Rachel Caine

#3. What was your name again?"
"Still Eve."
"No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.

Rachel Caine

#4. Do be careful. I can't replace you as easily as all that.

Rachel Caine

#5. I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often.

Rachel Caine

#6. She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not ... you know, better."
"Define BETTER with that guy."
"Not all fangs and raaaaar.

Rachel Caine

#7. Clarity confused me. I was far less forgiving and kind than the general state of disconnection in which I liked to live.

Rachel Caine

#8. Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say,
Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

Rachel Caine

#9. You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab.
"Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!

Rachel Caine

#10. Best to flee now, before the pitchforks and torches and scientists come calling.

Rachel Caine

#11. Oh, Claire," he said. "You think me a far better man than I am. That's kind, and flattering."
"Are you saying that you -"
"Doughnuts!" Myrnin interrupted her and darted away, to zip back in seconds with an open box.

Rachel Caine

#12. See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often."
"No. Trust me, you shouldn't," Eve said. "Think of all the little old people and the children.

Rachel Caine

#13. What about Myrnin?'
Eve swallowed, almost choked, and Michael patted her kindly on the back. She beamed at him. 'Myrnin? Oh yeah. He did a Batman and took off into the night. What is with that guy, Claire? If he was a superhero, he'd be Bipolar Man.

Rachel Caine

#14. I think so," she [Claire] said. "Just watch your back, okay?"
"Nah, Michael's got mine." He [Shane] looked straight into her eyes.
"I've got yours.

Rachel Caine

#15. Who's your daddy?'
Myrnin stared at him as if he'd gone completely mental. 'Excuse me?

Rachel Caine

#16. How'd you get to be so good at this?"
"I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass."
"I mean you, dummy."
"Oh.

Rachel Caine

#17. You're always caring about strays and outcasts among us, myself included. You really are a very odd girl, you know; so little sense of what is good for you.

Rachel Caine

#18. Must we argue word choice? Now?

Rachel Caine

#19. Are the two of you quite done with your sweet nothings? Because I might vomit.

Rachel Caine

#20. My, if I didn't loathe her so much, I'd admire her.

Rachel Caine

#21. That's very rude," Myrnin said. "I haven't brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway.

Rachel Caine

#22. Here, you are exceptional ... There, who knows? They might not value you as much as we do.

Rachel Caine

#23. You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.

Rachel Caine

#24. You can't go around ... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just ... unsanitary.

Rachel Caine

#25. I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

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#26. Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.

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#27. I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass."
"I mean you, dummy.

Rachel Caine

#28. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

Rachel Caine

#29. There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days.

Rachel Caine

#30. You've been the least useless apprentice I've ever had.

Rachel Caine

#31. It's dreadfully unfair to say things like that when this is likely the last time we will speak and we both know you don't mean what you say. It's pure selfishness that you want to keep me here.

Rachel Caine

#32. Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!

Rachel Caine

#33. People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers ... strangers are always at risk.

Rachel Caine

#34. I don't see a way in," Eve whispered.
Why are you whispering?" Myrnin whispered back. "Vampires can hear us, anyway.

Rachel Caine

#35. Myrnin said softly. And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

Rachel Caine

#36. Goodness,' Myrnin said quietly. 'I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.

Rachel Caine

#37. Welcome to Morganville.You'll never want to leave.And even if you do ... well, you can't. Sorry about that.

Rachel Caine

#38. Bite me, Goth princess," Shane called from the back. "Not literally or anything."
"Maybe you should say that to Michael."
"Not funny, Eve," Michael said.
Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. "Little bit," she said.

Rachel Caine

#39. I never meant it," he was saying.
"Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it,
seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something ... What do I do? What can I do ... ?

Rachel Caine

#40. Just because he's a spider doesn't mean he deserves any less concern!

Rachel Caine

#41. When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.

Rachel Caine

#42. Promise me, Amelie, that you'll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love."
"I hardly think there's any chance of that," Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.

Rachel Caine

#43. Dear girls, I can let anyone get hurt because in my world, my safety and well-being come first.

Rachel Caine