Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

To my everlasting relief, he’d also stopped with the starch a few years back . The military made him big on spray starch, but I point-blank refused to touch the stuff after a while. He finally gave up doing it himself, and I manfully restrained myself from pointing out that the world didn’t explode when he did. And they say maturity is just for adults.

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

Some of the djamphir are so pretty it almost hurts to look at them. And it was hard to look without feeling rumpled and messy in comparison.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.