Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!

Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear.

Eric,” she said, “maybe someday one of the waitresses will get pregnant, and we can go to a baby shower!” “That would be something to see,” said Eric

There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.