“The front door had been secure at some point in time, I suppose, but now it usually hung ajar by a few inches, the gap‐toothed grin of a dirty old man.”

“We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.”

“And he had it all over Octavian, let me tell you. Hung like a Pegasus, he was.”

“Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher”

“All of his life had been about making sure I kept mine.”

“Spartacus," I called, "how's it hanging?" Probably not too well. Once you're dead, had your organs removed, and are resurrected as an undead mummified cat, your testicles probably looked like old raisins that had rolled under the couch. Raisins didn't tend to...hang.”

“All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.”