“Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.”

“I don't need a mate, she muttered, staring up at the bright circle of the early autumn moon. But can't you send me a nice, sexy, strongmale to dance with? Pretty please? She hadn't had a lover for ...”

“I have something for you.Yeah? What? Is it shiny?They both waited until Indigo had jogged away before resuming their conversation. So, Riley asked, what have you got for me? Taking his hand, she pl...”

“Mercy laughed. You have to excuse themboys suffer from an incurable disability. What? Testosterone.”

“You trying to make me crazy? Everyone needs a hobby.”

“Don't pull any shit because you want to show off. Wait a second. She looked down then back up. Nope, I haven't grown a cock in the last few minutes. I have no need to prove whose is bigger.”

“Distance is meaningless, as is time, when minds and souls intertwine.-Gerome in CHANGELING-”

“Protect me from the fairies wild, Or exchange thee for a stolen child. A debt be paid more than a few, Tempting hunger with fairy stew. A mothers distraction used as bait, To steal unchristen babes...”

“He sniffed her. The rubbery black nose inhaled deeply as it passed back and forth over her face, along her throat, her ears. Jeez, it was like being vacuumed-only most Hoovers didn't have the poten...”

“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.”