“Love doesn't follow a schedule - it just shows up, usually when you least want it to.”

“There's a fine line between not caring what someone thinks of you and purposefully making a fool of yourself.”

“This is a private home.""And?""And I can't enter without an invitation." She jerked her head up. "You're kidding me?""No.""You don't live in a crypt and you can't turn into a bat, but you have to have an invitation to enter a house?" Abby hissed.A reluctant amusement softened the flat eyes. "You wanted me to be vampirish.""Not when it's inconvenient.”

“I was convinced that there was at least a seventy-three percent chance he was gay. I bumped it up from sixty-eight after our third game. Zack showed up wearing a light pink shirt that was tighter than usual.”

“Mom said that loving art was just as important as being able to create it.”

“I hadn’t been that interested in a hug. I could getthem anytime.Or at least, that’s what I’d thought.”

“Keeping low to avoid the branches that blocked their paths, they scurried through the dark. Dante with his usual elegant silence and Abby crashing behind him like a bull elephant with a tranquilizer stuck in its butt.”