“If theres one thing I learned, it is that blood families can sometimes be the pits; its the one you make for yourself that really gives you a home and people to love.”

“So, Zed, isnt this a killer outfit?Certainly a killer, baby.Good, because Ive bought another five just like it.You horrible, teasing fairy. If you really have more of those fashion disasters in you...”

“Glancing in through the open door to Xavs room, I saw Zed stretched out on the queen mattress, his arm hugging a pillow as if he felt Skys absence at his side.”

“Oh my gosh, dont you both look pretty! We looked like rejects from the auditions for The Sound of Music.I will have to buy them they are meant to be yours! Karla waved her credit card around like ...”

“Sky. Hope mixed with horror as I searched for Zed, quessing he would not have let his soulfinder walk into this situation alone. I finally identified him as the heavily bearded drummer in the flowe...”

“I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling.”

“Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what you are expecting in life.”

“One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others because they are not capable of leading when it is required of them to lead. Benedi...”

“Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter wa...”