“I like plain old you.”
“Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I’m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.”“Dorian who?”I sighed. “Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know.”“Sure thing, Gumdrop.”I grimaced. “I take that back. Let’s stick with Grey.”
“The case called for plain, old-fashioned police leg work!”
“What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”
“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”
“Before you knew it, a wonder could mix with the plain old earth beneath your feet until you could no longer tell the difference at all.”