“He didn't mind facing the music in most cases, but he wasn't partial to the wedding march.”

“...if loving Case meant going to hell, maybe heaven wasn't for her.”

“In sober moments, it shamed him to think and act like he did. But he wasn't sober now.”

“He snorted and his long face informed her he was still as grumpy as a woodpecker with a headache.”

“He'd seen her pale skin, glowing like a ripe peach in the flickering light of the kerosene lamps, and the sight had left him with a bad case of the horn colic.”

“The worst part was he never did get any of that damned apple pie.”

“Had he forgotten all that had transpired between them in that other hidey-hole?”