Ease off the martyr throttle.

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes.

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

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar