But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian

Love and loyalty runs deeper than blood.

Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose.

Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno." "Why Fresno?" "Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.

Mmm. O positive, my favorite.

Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.