All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.

Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.

Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets.

Barrons, Jericho: I haven't the faintest fecking clue. He keeps saving my life. I suppose that's something.

If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies.

If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given.

He made a lousy passenger, barking instructions I ignored