Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.

And I'm full aware of how much you don't like me at this moment" Can't be a new thing for you" Jim said

Next time you think of me like that , say my name when you come. It'll get you off even better.

Good? No, that didn't go far enough. She'd made him feel… alive. Awakened.

But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself

In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse at all. This moment was the culmination of countless daydreams and innumerable fantasies, his secret desire made manifest.

Oh my God..." Xhex's heart stopped as she looked at him in the mirror. Across his upper back, in a glorious spread of black ink...in a declaration that didn't whisper but shouted...in a billboard-size front with flourishes... Her name in the Old Language.