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"Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?"
"She smiled with the warmth of a penguin."
"They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission."
"Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints."
"See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good."
"You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere."
"The demon had trouble remembering what she was doing, but she was powerful, sort of the crazy Wendy of the lost lord-of-the-flies boys."
"Her tiny hand gripped mine with a surprising warmth, and in a shocking wash of emotion, I felt everything I knew shift. The scent of cinnamon and baby powder hit me, and as my eyes widened, my heart melted, making room for her."
"And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I’ll kill him for you.” From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved. (Ivy and Rachel)"
"I thought Trent should get over his pixy paranoia and admit he had an eerie attraction to them, like every other pure-blood elf I’d met. So he liked pixies. I liked double-crunch ice cream, but you didn’t see me avoiding it in the grocery store."
"Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world."
"Ford put a hand to his head. “Back up. Back up!” he cried. “You’re too close.” Heart pounding, I looked at the eight feet between us and pressed into the fridge. “I think he meant for the ghost to back up,” Jenks said dryly."
"I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin."
"Maybe I could be friends with a ghost. I wouldn’t be able to kill him."
"if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t."
"It was starting to smell really good in here. And if I liked what it smelled like, then they were liking what they were smelling, and ah…that would be me."
"I can think of a lot of things to do," he said, "and none of them involve standing up. - Al"
"Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my breath to make sure I could hear him breathing. I suppose I could have used my magic on him, but this was a lot more satisfying."
"Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of magic-using humans who are sadistic, power hungry, don’t like Inderlanders, and see genocide as an acceptable form of communication."
"Rache,” he said, trying to get into my line of sight. “What more do you need? God to send a telegram?" (Jenks)"