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1 " Plans are what you make when you are starting your life, Martin. Life is what happens when you’re making your plans.” Tino "
― Amy Lane , The Virgin Manny (The Mannies, #1)
2 " No,” Sammy said, shrugging. “It makes sense. Cierra has two moms, so it’s got to balance somewhere. I’m sorry you can’t eat dinner with us. "
3 " He was unprepared—woefully, dismally unprepared—for the god who opened the door instead. Six foot five if he was an inch, blond, with brilliantly white teeth, stormy gray eyes, "
4 " Are you the child of divorce, Tino? Did anybody you know die? Did you ever, once, not have enough to eat?” “No, sir,” Tino said, shamed. "
5 " She said I made it to the papers as your domestic partner.” Channing threw back his head and grimaced. “Oh God. I’m sorry, Tino. I don’t know where they got that impression.” Tino wrinkled his nose. “From two guys running around in their underwear, smelling like come, and from the fact that I wasn’t in the room that was supposed to be mine. Don’t be dense, Channing. And she wasn’t mad. There were no offers—no serious offers—to come down and defend my reputation.” Channing cocked his head and regarded Tino skeptically. “Doesn’t living in a domestic partnership with me reduce the number of cows your father can get for you in marriage?” Tino crossed his eyes and stuck out his tongue. “The only way he gets cows in that exchange is for someone to check my maidenhead. If some town elder tries to stick a finger up my butt to see if it’s still tight, I’m borrowing your old Dell and taking off his head. "
6 " Plans are what you make when you are starting your life, Martin. Life is what happens when you’re making your plans. "
7 " Doesn’t living in a domestic partnership with me reduce the number of cows your father can get for you in marriage? "