Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to

Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

I think I’ll just go take a shower,” I said. It wasn’t until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I’d just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal.

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don’t. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don’t want to talk