Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy with shrieking birds, and already hot.

I hate it when she tabs a line," Ivy whispered to Kisten in the corner. "You ever see anything freakier than that?" "You should see the face she makes when she—" "Shut up, Kist!" I exclaimed, my eyes flashing open to find him grinning at me.

And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I’d found out long ago that I couldn’t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.

Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble? (Glenn)

Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard.” - Al to Rachel

I didn’t mean now,” he protested. “I’m not going to raise the child. I’m having enough trouble with Rachel.

Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.