It's like scrying into that weird space. There's so much coming out of him, it shouldn't be possible. Do you remember that woman who came in who was pregnant with quadruplets? It was like that, but worse." "He's pregnant?" Blue asked.

Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.

Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well." "And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?" I teased. Sam turned bright red. "That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

his voice was centuries old

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.

sensitive," I tried. Sam translated, "squishy." "creative." "Dangerously Emo." "thoughtful." Feng shui.

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.