“The terminals were so corroded it looked like some kind of alien had taken a dump on the battery and then decided to play with it.”
“Adam looked at Them. They were his kind of people, too.You just had to decide who your friends really were.”
“I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included. So I had to buy them again.”
“It was, she had to admit, some kind of wonderful to be kissed so deliciously by the only mand who had dared play with her cat with the intention of winning.”
“I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.”
“Laney felt the pills he'd taken, the ones that were supposed to cushion the jet lag, drop out from under him like some kind of rotten pharmacological scaffolding.”