“He rubbed his hands up and down, warming her. Then thats all you need to know. I have you. If there are beasties in the dark, they have to get through me.”

“Izzy was utterly convinced. Never mind Arabian horses, African cheetahs. No creature in the world could bolt so quickly as a rake confronted with the word "marriage". They ought to shout it out at ...”

“Why must this be so mortifying? Oh, that's right. Because its my life.”

“Prithee," He protested, "if thou wouldst waiteth a goddamned second-”

“And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn't having nobody caring for you - it was having nobody to care for.”

“Izzy felt as though shed wandered into the third act of a play. She had no idea what was going on, but it was unbearably dramatic.”

“Never Give up, never surrender.”

“Several Terminal Policy readers got together to tell Raker jokes: - Raker CAN piss into the wind. - Raker donates a lot of blood to the Red Cross -- just never his own. - Superman wears Raker paj...”

“There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.”