“Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.”
“He hadn’t left, and apparently, Seth was a cuddler.”
“Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.”
“Because trying to think of how to ask a woman you’ve known for exactly two days if she’d be willing to get into a car with you and take a road trip across the country was something I hadn’t quite worked up to yet.”
“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”
“My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn’t transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy?]”