"I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men."
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"His eyes met mine at the soft touch, and a chime seemed to shake the ley line, realigning the universe. He was mine."
"What are you doing now?" Al questioned "Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is. My expression went blank, and Trent hesitated. He looked at me, and I put a hand to my mouth, face flaming. "Oh. My. God. Trent. I'm sorry" "Um" Trent said, clearly at a loss. "Call me tomorrow," Al said seriously, "I've got a curse that will take care of that. Unless you like the snake in a turtleneck look"
"You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen?"
"But I knew Nick. He was too ugly to die."
"Al's voice was faint but resolute. "Stand up. Try to look sexy." "In a bedsheet?" I complained, running my hands down it. "How can I look sexy in a bedsheet?" He cleared his throat, and I grimaced. "Never mind."
"[Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone. I'll call him if you both explode in a flash of black underwear and money so I won't have to fly all the way home."
"Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all."
"Have you been sniffing fairy farts?"
"Anything worth having is going to be hard"
"I didn’t mean now,” he protested. “I’m not going to raise the child. I’m having enough trouble with Rachel."
"And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!” “It’s the same difference!"
"I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there."
"Of course I’m shielding her, you broken feather!"
"I want one thing I can point to and say, 'that is good, and it's a part of me.'"
"My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and her triumphs over pain and her aching need to find her place. He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful."
"Your hair is a tangled mess,"he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane."
"He froze as the scent of her hair met him. It was touching his cheek,tickling him. I cant afford this, he thought, but he didnt move, watching her finger trace the new line. "He cracked my mirror,"she said, clearly angry."
"Men,” she said as she took my arm and led me to the brightly lit room. “They forget we need to see the outcome of pain before we willingly put ourselves through it. How else would we suffer nine months to have a beautiful child? We already know we have guts."
"Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again."