My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons." I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons.

He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth.

I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.

you have to play it out sometimes.

Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.