Night, G'rard. 'Night, mouse.
He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.
That's good, Hunter said, panting. Keep grinning at your attacker like that and they'll think you're way creepy. And mental.I grinned wider. I totally love this. Who can I punch next?
You look like you belong in a bad comic book, I told him cheerfully.----------------------What did the Drakes do that’s got you all pissy?Pissy? Did you just call me pissy?
Stop hiding condoms in my stuff. It's like some twisted Easter egg hunt in there.
She heard him close the door. I was going to impress you with my romantic eloquence, of course. I’d thought to wax philosophical about the beauty of your brow.Lucy blinked. My brow?Mmm. Have I told yo...
My darling Lucy. He panted against her ear, and then his teeth scraped her earlobe. I love you, he whispered. Don’t ever leave me.
I’m sorry.She bit the inside of her cheek, trying not to cry. At the same time, she was oddly touched by his apology.I’m sorry, he said again.Something tore quite explicitly, and she inhaled but didn’...
Lucy's Sabbath was generally of this amphibious nature. She kept it without hypocrisy in the morning, and broke it without reluctance in the afternoon.
I nodded. Where’s your hunter? She flinched. He went home. We thought it would be best. Her eyes went from worried to warning. He’s under Drake protection. So am I, or so I’ve been led to understand.O...
Who are you? Her eyes snapped open, and her voice held a hysterical edge. Do I even know who you are?He stepped over Walker’s battered corpse and grabbed her by the shoulders, leaned downso that his n...
It might’ve been my fichu.-Patricia to Lucy about her engagement to vicar Penweeble.
Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon must have done this. He’d destroyed his fairyland conservatory. Why? She sank to her...
And your people tried to kill my best friend, so you'll forgive me if I'm not overly keen on learning the secret handshake.She shook her head sadly. You should be going on dates and hanging out at the...
Her eyes went so wide they nearly bulged. It was probably wrong of me to find that amusing. Or to want to take a photo of Nicholas with his fangs out and wearing a black cape lined with red satin and...
I’m leaving. Her cold lips barely moved as she mouthed the words.Horror fisted around his vitals. No.For the first time she met his eyes. Hers were red-rimmed but dry. I have to leave,Simon.No. He was...
All right. Lucy shouldered her way to my side and made a waving motion as if they were annoying flies. Shoo! She narrowed her eyes. I said shoo.They dispersed, mostly startled into moving. Only Logan...
You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears.So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m af...
Now that it's over, I just wanna hold herI'd give up all the world to see That little piece of heaven looking back at me.Now that it's over, I just wanna hold her.I've gotta live with the choices I've...