It finally happened, he thought as he burrowed under his shirt and took hold of his heavy cross. All his life he’d wondered why he’d never fallen in love, and now he knew: He’d been waiting for this moment, this woman, this time. The female is mine, he thought. - Manny

You know you were with the lessers, true?" Butch lifted one of his busted-up hands. "And here I thought I'd been to Elizabeth Arden.

Well, duh. He was six feet, six inches tall and built like a brick shithouse.

I love you." Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella.

Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.

For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other

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