“He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and part wind do not get cold.”

“One might think that a boy who was out in the snow for so long would get cold, but Max was not. He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys who are part wolf and part wind do not get cold.”

“No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?”

“but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.”

“Maybe they had become volcano smoke jumpers, diving into an unknown risk to do a dangerous job because, in part, it was a social good and, in part, because they loved the big show.”

“She had covered herself in frost, so every part of her grew cold and would not feel, because of that single part that longed to hear that word, yet had never known the hope, or expectation, that it would.”