Darkness will never take me... because I have you. Light of my life, Marissa. That's what you are." -Butch and Marissa

Payne nailing him in the face woke him up. George brought him back his independence. But Beth handed him his crown.

Love can conquer everything but reality. Which will win every stinking time.

How many of them were there?' Her voice wasn't joking around. Eighteen. Hundred.' Four,' Blaylock interjected. 'An honor guard of four.' What did they work you over with? Those bruises on your thighs are severe?' Crowbars. Big, massive-' Blay cut in. 'Clubs. Had to be those ceremonial black clubs.

Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of those two out of his head... of course, it would also turn his brain into scrambled eggs, but really, was that such a bad thing?

Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA.

Phury nodded. "And if she lives with us, we get to keep the cat.