“I was speechless. Elodie Parris, defending me? Maybe in all this chaos, hell actually had frozen over.”

“Hell had frozen over and I was lost in its endless labyrinth.”

“I really had no control over my cat. Hell, who actually had control over any cat?”

“what I am after in this dispute is to me something serious, necessary, and indeed eternal, something of such a kind and such importance that it ought to be asserted and defended to the death, even if the whole world had not only to be thrown into strife and confusion, but actually to return to total chaos and be reduced to nothingness.”

“Will speechless for once, a glass of water frozen halfway to his lips”

“Nash Hudson. Holy crap. I almost looked down to see if ice had anchored my feet to the floor, since hell had surely frozen over. Somehow I’d stepped off the dance floor and into some weird warp zone where irises swam with color and Nash Hudson smiled at me, and me alone.”