“May as well have ox blood running through those veins, I added, Youre as stubborn as one.”

“He might have perfect form and better swordsmanship, but I had one thing on my side that stacked the deck in my favor. I was absolutely crazy.”

“They shot one of ours. The lines deepened around his grey eyes. Id waste the whole army for spilling a drop of my crews blood.”

“Now, now. I placed a hand on his back. Jealousy colors you black, Geoff. If you wanted to be a pretty princess too, I would have bought you a crown. Ill be back soon.”

“So this is how the merchant ship wont follow us, I mumbled, They arent insane enough to join the party.”

“The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of Take to the Sky, but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“No. Ye loved him. I canna hold it against either of you that ye mourn him. And it gives me some comfort to know ..." He hesitated, and I reached up to smooth the rumpled hair off his face."To know ...”

“In his arms Ive finally found the place Ive been looking for, where fear cant touch me, where memories cant reach, where the past is forgotten and the present is enough. Where the present is, in fa...”

“Our relationship with the world can only be better when we know ourselves well!”

“OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND. Naturally, I am crushed. To think, IF ONLY Id co...”