“Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish Id gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jam...”

“Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives.”

“I just feel like were starting to interfere on a level thats sort of . . . extreme. But thats what heroes do.”

“I just wasnt sure it was a good idea to approach heroing the way Id always approached detecting. Can you really shake the world until justice falls out?”

“Just thinking about how long its been since Ive managed to wind up covered in blood, I said. Its like a new trend. A blood-free trend.”

“Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I’d gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly ja...”

“She's the kind of girl who brings you to the moon without you even being aware. The kind of girl you trip in love with, The kind of girl you never forget.”

“Not every story is about a girl who dreams of romance, waiting impatiently and dramatically for a tall, handsome, strong man to fall hopelessly in love with, in the foolish hope that he will protec...”

“But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world.”

“She was evil. Couldn't he, who killed demons with his own hands, realize that? And now I had to run for Mardi Gras Queen because of him. Or her. I didn't know whose fault it was but there was no wa...”

“Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies....”

“She didn't do anything at allexcept arrived without warningin the middle of the night(right when I least expected it)She walked by me, with a strut in her stepsmelling like summercausing me to turn...”

“good weatheris likegood womenit doesnt always happenand when it doesit doesntalways last.”

“I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.”

“I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note from the doctor to say I had a cold so I didn't have to go play hockey in bad weather and be miserable.”