I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board

When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.

Your master plan has holes big enough to drive a truck through.

She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.

You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.

A massive beast dashed along the mountain apex. Astamur reached for his rifle. “A demon?” “No, not a demon.” I might have preferred one . “That’s my boyfriend.” Atsany and the shepherd turned to look at me. “Boyfriend?” Astamur said. Curran saw us. He paused on a stone crag and roared. The raw declaration of strength cracked through the mountains, rolling down the cliffs like a rockslide. “Yep. Don’t worry. He’s harmless.

I'm a substitute mom." "You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.