What do you mean fainted?Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors.

She put her hands over her face. Ah crap. What do I do now? Do I say something, do I not say something? I kept talking, keeping my voice as light as I could manage....

I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

One day I’ll kill him, you know.I glanced at her. She was deadly serious.

Would you like to work here with me?We have no clients and the pay is shit.

Andrea raised her eyebrows. “Look at you, all high-speed.””Yeah, you’d think I was a detective or something.”Andrea held her hand out. “You’ll jinx it.

We don’t need teenage bouda sex fiends as interns.How do you know he is a sex fiend?He is fifteen and he’s a bouda. Hello?

Her face looked like it would shatter any second.

I know you’ll tell me to fuck off, but I think Curran loves you. Truly loves you. And I think you love him, Kate. That’s rare. Think about it–if he really stood you up, why...

What will you do for a dollar?

We can do subtle,” I assured her.”It’s our middle name,” Andrea added.For some odd reason Rene didn’t look convinced.

That’s the thanks I get for trying to keep you alive, Your Highness.

Aha,” Andrea said. “I’m going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as ‘sugar woogums’.

I have a serious question.””I will give a serious answer.””Can a god be killed?”The humor drained from Roman’s face. “Well, that depends on if you’re a pantheist or a Marxist.””What’s the difference?””The first believes that...

Hearts mend, but lost chances are gone forever.

It’s not a loup cage, you know,’ I told her. ‘It’s a holding cell. Or safe room. or secure room. I don’t think Jim ever settled on a term he could live with.”Aha. It’s a...

Don’t worry about being nervous. A lot of vampires have trouble with this from time to time. It happens to everyone.””If I was a forty-year-old man suffering from erectile dysfunction, that would be a great...

Here, you can touch it, since you’re my best friend.

Derek, you just don’t say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you’ll spend your life alone.””Don’t change the subject. Andrea is cool. And she smells nice. It will be okay.”Apparently...

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

Did those nice church ladies come by again?” He nodded. “I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a...

He glued the chair to my ass.”Silence.”Is it still…attached?””I can’t get it off.

And waking, once again, face smudged into Andrea’s couch, the red quilt humped around her shoulders, smelling coffee, while Andrea hummed some Tokyo pop song to herself in the next room, dressing, in a gray...

Thank you,” Andrea said.

Are you happy?When I can get out of my own way.And the rest of the time?The rest of the time I’m in a state of silent panic. I’m afraid it will end. I’ll lose him....