You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake

He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and he’d watched a house consume a man and spit him out, he figured a drag or two were appropriate.

I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.

Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.

I look at you, and I see the most beautiful woman on the face of the earth. Inside and out you are beautiful. I know you better than anyone else could ever know you, because I can see into your thoughts and read your memories. The very light in you, our tremendous capacity for loving, humbles me.

Don't cater to stupidity.

Here's to many more firsts and many more great memories.