I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn’t be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother.

You're such a cupcake.

Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.' There are some similarities.

they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August

Omygod, I haven’t got years. I’ll have to hide in the Bat Cave.” “Once you go to the Bat Cave it’s forever, babe.” Eeek.

Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy.

Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.