“Hell, yeah, Ryland. Man up and carpe girl.”

“What the hell is wrong with me? And who is Nibbles?”

“The girl might be gorgeous under normal circumstances, but she was an ugly crier.”

“I was falling for Elyssa and my track record with girls looked like a zombie apocalypse.”

“I might be short, chubby, and require a B-cup manzier, but I was still a man.”

“Bryan helped me up.  "How can you be so good one minute then clumsy the next?"I shrugged.  "I've never been very athletic.  Not unless you count fencing.""You made fences?”

“My eyelids felt like had tiny but chubby sleep faeries hanging on the lashes and pulling them closed”