I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.

Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.

He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.

I was just an okay person.

Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

It's in our blood to start again.

If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.