“Sure, she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. What could go wrong?Michaels eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.Besides everything, I mean, she said.”

“Shane kissed her one more time, lightly and softly, and fluffed her hair back from her face. To be continued, he said. I hate cliff-hangers. Blame Eve.”

“Me neither, Shane put in. Homie dont play that.I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all, Amelie said.”

“Claire found herself staring at his feet, which were in bunny slippers. Myrnin looked down. "What?" he asked. "They're quite comfortable." He lifted on to look at it, and the ears wobbled in the ai...”

“Some people come to Morganville and collapse, Michael said as he put the car in motion. Ive seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and justbloom. Youre one of those. Claire didnt ...”

“Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create.”

“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.”