I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly.

Slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.

If someone had asked who could stage the best intervention with a crazy woman who had formerly been an undead monster, Sydney Sage would have been my last guess.

Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake." "The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

ʺThe contractʹs null and void, by the way.ʺ

Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.

You’ll have your own superhero club before you know it.