“Real life isn't made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.”

“There’s a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she kills me. Not that I totally believe she’s nefarious. Real life isn’t made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.”

“On my first day of kindergarten, I bit a kid. Hard. In my defense, he deserved it.”

“Among wilderness survival tips, punching a wild animal in the face probably isn’t on a checklist.”

“I'm some sort of guinea pig in a home economics crash course for werewolves.”

“To them he’s the slightly less frightening alternative to the grim reaper.”

“She inches closer so we’re practically sharing the same air. Maybe we are, because I’m light-headed.”