“This isn’t a good idea. This isn’t right.”....“There’s all kinds of right,” he murmured. “On the spectrum, we’re still in the safe zone.”

“I shook my head. “I don’t think so. This isn’t a good idea. This isn’t right.”“There’s all kinds of right,” he murmured. “On the spectrum, we’re still in the safe zone.” ...“Definitely right. Usually right,” Patch continued. “Mostly right. Maybe right.”

“I love you, " he murmured into my hair. "I'm happier right now than I remember being.”

“Well, well,” he said. “Five days a week isn’t enough of me? Had to give me an evening, too?”

“But strength doesn’t always mean brute force. You don’t have to kick ass to be a fighter. Violence doesn’t equal strength. Lead your army by example. There’s a better answer to all this. War isn’t going to solve anything, but it will tear our two worlds apart, and there will be casualties, including humans. There’s nothing heroic about this war. It will lead to a destruction unlike anything you or I have ever seen”

“He was the worst kind of wrong. He was so wrong it felt right, and that made me feel completely out of control.”

“You should shower," I said. "Right now.""I smell that bad?"Actually, he smelled that good.”