“ We lay there in the dark for a split second before the beast galumphed toward us. Meabh, always quick with a sword, sprang to her feet and charged the dragon head-on while I mostly just wondered who o… C.E. Murphy
“ At least if Iwas picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever. C.E. Murphy
“ You went back in time, he repeated, and you expect his cell phone to work?Well, no, I just, I mean, I came back and he hasn’t! Shouldn’t he have?Morrison, very steadily, said, Were you together?No! I… C.E. Murphy
“ They're constants, aren't they? ... Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like… C.E. Murphy
“ To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me very often, but I hated it when it did. It was faulty wiring… C.E. Murphy
“ Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old. C.E. Murphy
“ I was bad at relationships. I was bad at reading between lines, at figuring out what people really meant if they didn’t actually say it, and at being charming or flirty or whatever it was, exactly, th… C.E. Murphy
“ He can’t keep this up forever, Joanne. Stop fucking around. Did other people have little voices in their heads that said things like that? C.E. Murphy
“ Why do airline pilots always call passengers folks? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that man encompasses the whole darned race -- bu… C.E. Murphy
“ I opened my eyes to find Gary and my mother sitting cross-legged up against a half-fallen wall, both of them laughing so hard they had tears running down their faces. My mother had Gary’s forearm in o… C.E. Murphy
“ Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. If you’d asked methree months ago I’d have said you were hitting the bottle too hard. But then Igot stabbed and should have died, but instead a… C.E. Murphy
“ In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're . You say of course you're sure, really, you don't… C.E. Murphy
“ What do you suppose we would do, I said conversationally, if we ever had sex? I mean, what would we call each other? Captain and Walker? Morrison and Detective? Or would we just find excuses to not ca… C.E. Murphy
“ Find anything about the Blade? Billy let out an explosive sigh and creaked back in his chair, hands folded behind his head. Comic book references. Stuff about some swordsman named Bob Anderson. Wesley… C.E. Murphy
