Tracie Thoms: Mahandra McGinty

Quotes 

• Aaron Tyler : Why would anybody worship my sister? Is she a cult figure?

  Mahandra McGinty : You're not wearing pants.

  Aaron Tyler : I was about to get some.

  Mahandra McGinty : Well, you're certainly undressed for it.

• Mahandra McGinty : You're using these birds to avoid Eric. Why?

  Jaye Tyler : Because... I'm a snowy owl love killer. I'm a man-eater. I just... I was hoping things would be different with Eric. I thought maybe I could just nibble. But a natural predator can't just nibble.

  Mahandra McGinty : Oh, my God, Jaye. You cannot do this to him. You promised.

  Jaye Tyler : I know. I'm trying to save him... by avoiding him, so I could be with him. But I can't go near him or I'll destroy him. So if I could just manage to stay away from him, then maybe we could be together. Please don't repeat that back to me.

  Mahandra McGinty : Look, you have got to nip this in the bud right now. Just get it over with. Show some mercy. Take him out into the woods and put one painlessly in the back of his head.

  Jaye Tyler : It's such a cute head.

  Mahandra McGinty : Cap him.

• Jaye Tyler : Love killer. Can you believe that?

  Mahandra McGinty : You're not a snowy owl.

  Jaye Tyler : And I'm not a love killer.

  [seeing Mahandra's look] 

  Jaye Tyler : What?

  Mahandra McGinty : Well, actually, the bird lady's kind of right about that. Well, half-right. You don't just kill love. You stalk it, you toy with it, then you kill it. You're the huntress, and love is your prey.

  [indicating Eric] 

  Mahandra McGinty : I mean, look at him.

  Jaye Tyler : I am.

  Mahandra McGinty : Like a wounded gazelle. Run, little gazelle, run. There's danger at the watering hole.

  Jaye Tyler : That's crazy. He's not a gazelle. He's more like a fuzzy bunny. I don't kill fuzzy bunnies.

  Mahandra McGinty : Fuzzy love bunnies. You're in the toying stage. I can almost hear that clicking noise my cat makes.

  Jaye Tyler : It's not serious enough for there to be toying. We've only just found out our saliva's compatible. There's no love to kill yet.

  Mahandra McGinty : What did you just say?

  Jaye Tyler : Saliva?

  Mahandra McGinty : Yet. You said "yet". Three little letters and the most romantic thing I've ever heard fly out of your mouth. And also the most terrifying. It's the sound of a fuse being lit.

  Jaye Tyler : It is not.

  Mahandra McGinty : Better not be. After everything that boy's been through, I don't think his heart can take that... thing you do.

• Aaron Tyler : What is she doing with those birds, anyway? Is she gonna use their babies in a ritual?

  Mahandra McGinty : Only thing that's getting sacrificed tonight is the heart of a certain unsuspecting bartender.

  Aaron Tyler : Oh, right. He did seem like a man marked for heartbreak.

  Mahandra McGinty : You saw it, too?

  Aaron Tyler : Well, I mean, he was with her. Why does she always do that to 'em? You know, that exchange student from Prague still e-mails me about her.

  Mahandra McGinty : She's like a bug zapper. Long as I've known her, guys have been throwing themselves at her. I don't know, maybe if she was more like some of us less magnetic types, she wouldn't be so quick to throw 'em back.

  Aaron Tyler : I think you're magnetic.

  Mahandra McGinty : Yeah, well, for all my innate magnetism, I haven't really been attracting a lot of the brothers in the greater Niagara region lately.

  Aaron Tyler : I'm somebody's brother.

  Mahandra McGinty : Yeah, right. My best friend's brother. Like that's gonna happen.

  Aaron Tyler : [laughing together]  Why not?

  Mahandra McGinty : Well, for one thing, if we ever even tried to kiss, we'd never stop laughing.