Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

Better to be screwed physically than financially.