Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.

You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.

Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They were concentrated most densely around her ... well ... She'd been, ah, vajazzled.

If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.