“Come, fruit of my loins, we’re going for a walk.”

“When I walk my dog, people always ask if we’re twins.”

“I’m not afraid. Despite the searing between my eyes andthe knowledge that something is coming for me, somethingthat could easily rip out my spleen and pop it like a waterballoon, I am not afraid. She’s with me. She’s my purposeand we’re going to save each other. We’re going to saveeveryone. And then I’m going to convince her that she’ssupposed to stay here. With me.”

“We’re going to go in the back room as two singles, copulate back there, and come out a couple. Somebody go tell my clone where I am so he doesn’t go file a missing person’s report on himself.”

“We learn to walk when we’re babies and never forget unless we’re drunk.”

“If you don’t send Edward out,” Emmett—still invisible in the night—hissed menacingly,“we’re coming in after him!”“Go,” I laughed. “Before they break my house.”