The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

Over the years, she'd learned not to question him to closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.

There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said.

You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

Do they always flirt with biblical quotes?" Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, "They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We've learned to live with it. Get a room you guys."

Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.

I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia." "Hey, he's not that bad," Warren said. "Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.