“Yes!” she said raising her arms in the air. “Finally! I get to meet the invisible man!”“He’s not invisible,” I said sitting on the edge of her desk.“Oh please,” she said. “I’ve never seen him. Except maybe in a magazine advertising crazy people, or maybe it was rich people? I get the two mixed up.”Lyndi and Sloane”

“I think maybe I know why,' she finally said.'Why?''Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.”

“Maybe I want everything to be as simple as two guys in bed together,” he said.“As simple as pleasing the man I belong to and making him feel better when he’s in pain.”

“Eriko raised me that way," he said, laughing. "If I didn't open the door for her, she'd get mad and refuse to get in the car.""Even though she was a man!" I said, laughing."Right, right, even though she was a man.”

“Claire said. “I might be able to get him to stop.” “Who, crazy dude? Maybe. Or he might pull your head off,” Shane said. “I kind of worry.”She couldn’t help but smile. “Yeah?”“A little bit.”“That’s …nice.”He studied her, and returned the smile. “Yeah,” he said. “Kind of is, actually.”

“She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.''Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said.'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her.”