Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when I hadn't.

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

Listen to you sounding all badass. I bet you're just listening to a CD called 'The Sounds of Crime' while you cruise for chicks outside the Old Navy in your Camaro.

That was pretty much all you needed to know about Cole, right there. He saw something he didn't quite understand, liked it, and took it to be his.

Maura whirled towards Blue. "Blue, if you ever see that man again, you just walk the other way." "No," Calla corrected. "Kick him in the nuts. Then run the other way.

Here is another secret: I have no business being fascinated by you.

Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk