Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.

Molly was committing dinner. . .

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

Pansy," Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.