Shane:is your distant cousin jack the ripper dropping in for coffee.eve:screw you collins
You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?-Shane (Glass Houses)
You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do forlove.Myrnin.
You think that because I want to do what’s right, because I want to make things better, I’m weak, Claire said. Or that I’m stupid. But I’m not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world i...
Um… Eve…can I ask…?About what? Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it to do something clever, like try to escape the pot.You and Michael.Oh. A surge of pink to Eve’s cheeks. Between...
This is the biggest damn iPod I've ever seen,' Claire said, which made him choke on his beer.'Kidding. I have seen a jukebox before.''The way you're feeding it, I'm not so sure. You think you picked e...
The second bathroom's downstairs - that's kind of the emergency backup bathroom when Shane's in there moussing his hair for like an hour or something.... Shane yelled from behind the closed door.
So we do nothing? Claire asked.We do the best nothing you’ve ever seen.
She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.
Shane’s dad stopped the van, Claire said. He took Monica as a hostage.For a second, neither one of them moved, and then Eve whooped and held up her hand for a high five. Claire just stared at her, and...
Shane: Bro, he said, in an injured tone, I had to go out with a flamethrower, and you weren't there to see it. Michael: Pics or it didn't happen. Shane: Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing...
Shane settled his flamethrower more comfortably on his shoulders. Ladies? After you.Rude, Claire said.I was being polite!Not when you have a flamethrower.
See? she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either!
Of course, we could all die soon. I'm writing because Michael's patrolling the house and Shane and Claire are asleep. It may be the last chance I have to write anything down. So in case that's true, I...
My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.
Michael held me when I got inside, because I was shaking all over. That felt so good. Warm all the way down. Did I mention Michael’s feet? They’re all the way sexy, and he’s always barefoot – he hates...
Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?
In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me, he whispered. I love you, Claire. She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expres...
In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.
I think—I think it’s a big deal. Bigger for him and Eve than for most people.' Shane kept his eyes down, fixed on the sidewalk and the steps they were taking. 'Look, ask him, okay? This is girl talk....