He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on the middle class and Thank you for your donation and Honey, could you bring me my sweater with the duck on it?

That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

Shouldn't you be looking at other cars? You know, car shopping usually involves ... shopping." "I don't shop very well", Grace said. "I just see what I need and get it.

In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.

Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.

I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.

I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.