Melaka: But Ruebrin's boys showing up on the grab and tossing me off the roof, that was... well... actually, that was kind of fun.

Erin: We're not kids anymore, Mel...
Mel: Which means big sister doesn't get to run my life. I take care of myself.
Erin: Last I checked, you weren't very good at taking care of anyone.

Melaka: Versi. Biggest warren in Haddyn. If you're down on your luck, or looking to hide, this is the place. A lot of drifters - guys in an and out in a week, on their way to somewhere better. As, for example, the grave. Versi is the kind of place the kids in the uppers have never even read about. It isn't safe, and it isn't clean. It's home.

Loo: Mel! We were playing toxo and I caught the bottle three times and Julie said I had a big butt and there was a man came but I said I never heard of you and I had ham for lunch and the man said you got chosen and he had a bald head and Leon pulled my hair... Did you bring me a treat? Mommy said you got drunk last night and had a fight with three men but I was asleep in my bed already then.
Man: Excuse me...
Mel: Folks couldn't afford your meds, huh? Try to focus, Loo, a man came and...
Man: Miss Fray?
Loo: I caught the bottle the most of anyone and that man is there...
Man: Melaka Fray?
Loo: ...but I didn't know who you were is what I told him...

Man: You... are the Chosen... I am not worthy to come before you... you will save us...
Mel: Okay, I think you might maybe have no idea what you're talking about...

Melaka: Guy lights himself on fire. What's that all about?

Urkonn: I am not trying to kill you!
Melaka: You attacked me.
Urkonn: You were fleeing. I tried to stop you.
Melaka: By pushing me though a wall?
Urkonn: You hurt me. I got angry.

Urkonn: How do you explain me?
Melaka: Do I hafta?
Urkonn: I am not of your reality. Is not my visage strange to you?
Melaka: Please. I work for a fish. Take a look at the world, horn-boy. You're not gonna convince me you're special by playing the ugly card.

Melaka: I guess I'm flattered that you want me for this Slayer gig, but for your sake, I hope you've got a back-up plan.
Urkonn: We do. It would not please you.

Urkonn: This is not training.
Melaka: This is nessa. I don't get my grab to Gunther, he's gonna bust a gill. By way of killing my ass.

Urkonn: The elders of several villages met, calling for action. They invoked the strongest and most dangerous magicks they could summon, to create a power. A power that could fight the vampires. A power that lived... in the body of a girl.

Urkonn: You met your Watcher yesterday.
Melaka: I did? I didn't!
Urkonn: Did not one come to you, call you the Chosen One?
Melaka: Nobody ever called me any oh my god you mean that guy that one that set himself on fire!
Urkonn: As I said, fanatics.
Melaka: But he set himself on fire!
Urkonn: Centuries of useless, obsessive waiting makes a human-
Melaka: He set himself on fire!
Urkonn: Maybe he was cold.

Loo: Kettie Rawls called me a freak and he said he was gonna tear off my whole arm and I'd look like a dolphin which I don't know what that is but I got scareded and you said I could stay here any time I got scareded...
Melaka: And the next time I see Kettie Rawls, I'll hang him up to dry. "Freak." Jesu.
Urkonn: Children can be cruel.
Melaka: Kettie Rawls is forty-two. Rutting idiot.

Melaka: I've met you a thousand times. I've killed you a hundred ways - in a rage, cool as ice, giggling like a schoolgirl... never like this. Like I'm frozen, cold frozen and trying not to pee myself. Jesu, Melaka, get up get up get up...

Jove: I'm gonna kill her. Amma, I'm gonna kill her 'cause it's the right thing to do.
Amma: Jove, you know Mel... she's young.
Jove: Still gonna kill her.
Amma: Didn't say you shouldn't.

Loo: Well, who of us was there? You had bedtime and wasn't even. Everything I say is from I saw it. I got the monster guy to help.
Boy: My mom says lurks are people God got sick of.
Loo: Not even. It's a social disease. You get it from making with people, then you want blood and all.

Harth: Before my earliest memories of the world, there were the dreams. There was the girl. She was different every time. But the same. A peasant, a priestess... hundreds of girls, from times we've forgotten, worlds we couldn't picture. She was me. She wasn't me. I loved her. I killed her.

Harth: Oh... oh. Okay. Oops.

Mel: He said everyone I love is gonna die screaming.
Erin: So I guess I'm safe.

Urkonn: They must have been angered not to find you.
Melaka: Yeah. They must have been angered.

Melaka: He said it. He said I couldn't protect anyone. He was right. I'm not even a real Slayer. All I can do is fight. So it's time I started fighting. Time I let them know I'm in this. Urkonn... let's make some war.

Urkonn: I have a gift for you. It is a weapon. Forged eons ago, for the Slayer alone. Lost for centuries. Carry it, for it is your sword and your scepter. Let it proclaim you the hero - and the monster - that you will need to be. Make your war.

Melaka: Buncha brainless lowlife jackheads, everyone of 'em.
Urkonn: It could have gone better.
Melaka: They wouldn't even listen! I probably shouldn't have started hitting people.
Urkonn: I don't think that was helpful, no.

Melaka: Things get clearer. This is how I begin. My hand barely shakes.

Melaka: Whoa-HO! Did you see that? They, that was - the thing is just them going poof!
Woman: Miss...
Melaka: Which is, I get it, Urkonn said there'd be - but, GAH, we're probably breathing them right now!
Woman: Miss!
Melaka: Lurks travel in packs. Urkonn may have mentioned that.

Melaka: My hand. It doesn't shake at all.

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