“I was about to meditate like no one had ever meditated before.”

“Meditate, he’d said. Jingo Jingo was such a joker.”

“So if my ability to meditate was what was going to save the world, or at least save Portland, then I was pretty sure we should all think about moving to Seattle.”

“He'd already put a shirt on each leg and had stacked every shoe I owned into a precarious pyramid. The room looked like a small, overly curious tornado had torn it apart."You have got to be kidding me," I said. "Maybe I should give you to Shamus.”

“He made it sound like he was teaching me the ABC’s and knew there was no way I’d ever make it to Q.”

“Zayvion and I had an agreement that we were going to give this relationship everything we could. And that included trust, faith, and honesty. Not a single one of which was among my strong points.”

“Sex everywhere, all the time…One time during training, I actually had to carrybags of ice around and lob them at the two of them to keep them from spontaneously f*cking.”