If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything.

"Say the word, Qhuinn. Do it and I'll spend the night with you.""Better yet, why don't you just kiss me..."

Nothing that passes between us will ever be wrong. Come back to me.

All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.

You're so very naked," she whispered against his shoulder. He smiled into her hair. "So are you.

He thought about all the holes in him, the blank places, the voids where others felt things. When it came down to it, he was really just a screen, more empty than solid, his emotions blowing through him, only angry catching and holding.

In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?" "Try a brick wall.