Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.

Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.

I have permission to live off campus.” She didn’t say from whom, because it was primarily herself.

That is disgusting, and I will never kiss you again." "Yes, you will," he said, and proved by pressing his lips to hers. She wanted to squirm away, just to prove the point but God, she loved kissing him.

You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.

The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.

He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.