Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!" Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.

They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.

He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.

Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough.

Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life." "How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?" Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled.