A clipboard and a hard hat could get you just about anywhere.

I like the second better, but the first fits with the vampire watching what she can’t have.” I blinked. “What he can’t have,” I amended, flushing.

I'll always be here," he said softly. "You can never fill my need, never drive me away, no matter how much you give me. The good or the bad. I'll always be hungry for emotion, always and forever, and I can feel you hurting. I can turn it to joy. If you'll let me.

Oh for the sweet humpin' love of Tink! ~ Jenks

Do you have a sleeping bag?” I stared at him. “No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of ’06.

A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away.

As the joke goes, you don’t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.