All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

I love him," I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it.

Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.

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

It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.