And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.

Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part.

I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.

Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain . . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That’s a known fact of science.

A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.