“I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you’re along for the ride.”

“I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigaret butt. I picked it up without shame, lit it as I stood with one foot in the gutter, puffed it and exhaled toward the stars. I was an American, and goddamn proud of it.”

“Tell me what I am to you.” …“Oh honey, you’re the man I call when I need a ride.”

“I glanced up to see Liz and smiled. "Thank you." "I just went along for the ride. After that happened-" She waved at Derek. "You know how blind people need Seeing Eye dogs? Well, apparently werewolves could really use Opening Door poltergeists.”

“But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”

“Wherever she looked, she saw fires. They covered the earth like fallen stars, and like the stars there was no end to them.”