“She had done it. O, amazing grace. The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it. No net. No way back. Amazing.”

“The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.”

“Shall we amaze them?” I said, looking out into the crowd.Shane smiled down at me. “Grace, trust me, they were amazed just by you walking in.”

“It was a constant source of amazement to Alexia that the only thing she had ever done in her entire life that pleased her mama was marry a werewolf.”

“Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.”

“It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back.”