“Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.”

“How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.”

“The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.”

“Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.”

“He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.”

“Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.”

“How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.”

“There was a pleasantness to the air and a spirit about the town that did not come from its color, but from some inner, tasty citrus quality. It made Alexia wonder fancifully if cities could have so...”

“Just because history says it isn't possible doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions.”

“Asparagus is in season.”