In two words,” said Alan quietly, “there is nothing I love half as much as you.

Cheap thrills, mostly,” said Kami.

Oh, Alan Ryves,” she said. “You’re such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.

She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment...

I cook better than you,” Nick corrected absently. “I think monkeys can probably be taught to cook better than you.””I’d like to have a monkey that cooked for me,” said Jamie. ” I would pay...

I did not matter what distant iron city had raised him. He had been made by Sorry-in-the-Vale, his bones as much a part of it as the valley and the woods. It was as if...

Sometimes I want to be human for you.

Done any exciting sums lately?””I don’t just do sums,” Miles told her. “There’s much more to my life than that.””Is there?” Alicia asked, trying to sound interested.”Yes,” said Miles. “Sometimes I draw graphs.

I don’t have deal breakers,” Alan said. “I look on tempests, and am never shaken.

She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.

Oh,” she said, in a very different way. “Well. Thanks for my part in the compliment. Naturally I’d love to be watched and controlled, but I think I may be washing my hair that day.

I can smite you ” Nick grumbled. “Anytime I like.

I’m not sure if I’ll be here when you get back. This place is a little—it’s a little much for me.”She didn’t have to tell him how it was. He had lived here for years,...

quiet place.” He recalled even more vividly being obscenely drunk and unhappy over his heartbreak of that time, and the maudlin thoughts that had recurred to him over the years, like an unwanted guest slipping...

There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep.

Wearing that? Wouldn’t you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays.”Oh, I am planning things,” said Jamie. “Great, great things. I could join a band.””You gave up the guitar after two...

I don’t have your way with words “Sin said. “So I’m just going to go with a quick response. Ha