He'd surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, not born.

Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that?

I was about to look away when he reached across the seat, touched my jaw with his long, strong, beautiful fingers, and caressed my face. Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you must be the most special person in the world. It’s like walking up to the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and purrs.

You are what you are. Deal with it or change.

The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hardest ones are.

He looked blank. “He’s the one who’s been doing the magic against us?” “Duh,” I said. “Doona be ‘duh’ing me, lass,” he growled, his burr thickening.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.