Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.

Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.