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1 " Normal doesn’t exist. It was a rumor started by McCarthy in the 1950s. "
― Molly Harper , How to Date Your Dragon (Mystic Bayou, #1)
2 " eventually, Jillian’s multitude of questions would make his head explode. She would be the only damsel in history to rescue herself through persistent interviewing. "
3 " If she wasn’t absolutely sure that it would turn out to be an emotional disaster of Pompeii proportions, she would take Sonja’s advice and climb that man like a tree. For science. "
4 " Zed pursed his lips and grabbed a nearby book. He placed Jillian’s hand on it and raised his hand. “Jillian Ramsay, I hereby deputize you as a law enforcement official in the Mystic Parish. Do you swear to follow Sheriff Bael Boone’s orders and uphold the law to the best of your ability?” “This is a copy of The Da Vinci Code,” she noted. “Do you swear?” “Define ‘follow orders,’ because I don’t want to accidentally enter into some sort of sex contract with Bael.” She jerked her thumb toward the sheriff, who bobbled the measuring tape he was holding and dropped it on Ted’s chest. Zed frowned. “You OK, buddy? "
5 " and her mother’s secret recipe spice cookies. “You have feet colder than the Wall, woman.” “You shipped me pryaniki, so I forgive your harsh foot hate, "
6 " Sometimes apathy hurts just as much as cruelty. At least when someone is yelling, you can imagine that they care. "
7 " What the hell happened in there? Did Akako Tomita attack you? I will cut that woman.” “She’s a supernaturally strong ancient creature with nine blades hidden in her invisible tails.” “I would figure something out,” Sonja insisted. "
8 " He tried to call himself Zed Oakendesk, after watching the Hobbit one too many times, but Bael refused because a man shouldn’t come up with his own nickname. "
9 " Bael realized his earlier panic feeling had been replaced by something much warmer and sweeter. And he would never, ever tell Zed about it. "
10 " She winced. “A party?” “There will be pie.” She frowned at him. “Do you think you can lure me to a stranger’s house with baked goods?” “It’s really good pie, "
11 " But that was more than a hundred years ago,” she protested. He didn’t mean to tilt his head and look at her like she was an adorable imbecile, but honestly. “The same creatures who were in charge of the League a hundred years ago are in charge of the League now, Jillian. It’s one of the benefits of being a magie. We live longer than you. "
12 " So it’s better to indebt them to people who have threatened to mass murder you?” “Better the devil that’s far away than the devil who lives in your backyard?” he guessed. "
13 " She grinned at him. “Come on, be a buddy. If you pass out, I’ll carry you back to town!” Bael stopped her mid-swing, lifted her arm, examined her bicep and made a skeptical face. “I would go get Zed and he would carry you back to town,” she conceded. "
14 " She wasn’t prepared for the way the humidity absorbed into her clothes, sealing them to her skin in a thick layer of sweat. She was not prepared for the distraction Bael’s ass would pose, bobbing through the brush ahead of her like a perfect peach wrapped in skin-tight denim. She was staring at it, suffering the oddest craving for peach pie, "
15 " The only problem is the kudzu.” She frowned. “Well, kudzu’s a problem all over the south.” “Yeah, but our kudzu seems to be growing toward town like it’s personal. "
16 " Clarissa apparently believed that if you didn’t have to roll a guest out of your house like the blueberry girl in Willy Wonka, you were a bad hostess. "
17 " More like Sonja told you not to call me because she would gladly set you on fire with the power of her brain. "
18 " Sonja had thoughtfully highlighted the portions that mentioned Jillian by name. This was what happened when you roomed with the child of a Cold War-era spy. "
19 " You know I love you and don’t like to criticize you when you’re going through one of your inevitable existential crises, but it’s just a little self-indulgent to make a murder spree about you. "
20 " Jillian sighed. “Why are our conversations never normal?” “Normal doesn’t exist. It was a rumor started by McCarthy in the 1950s. "