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21 " Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard. "
― Kim Harrison , A Fistful of Charms (The Hollows, #4)
22 " Good God,” I whispered, sitting on the van’s cot and looking at my legs, horrified. They were hairy—not wolf hairy, but an I-couldn’t-find-my-razor-the-last-six-months hairy. Utterly grossed out, I took a peek at my armpit, jerking away. Oh, that’s just…nasty. "
23 " Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it. "
24 " He grinned. “That’s because pixies are ever-after. We’re magic, baby. Just ask Matalina. "
25 " Jenks made a move to follow, probably forgetting he didn’t have wings anymore. He leaned forward and fell to the floor, face first. “Jenks!” I shouted when he hit with a dull smack and started swearing. "
26 " Ah, Jenks? It’s not a lake, it’s a friggin’ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we came into town? The wake from it could tip us. I’m not canoeing it unless your name is Pocahontas. "
27 " And as far as Piscary is concerned, he can burn in hell—if his soul hadn’t already evaporated. "
28 " Ivy had once said that sharing blood was a way to show deep affection, loyalty, and friendship. I felt that way about her, but what she wanted from me was so far from what I understood that I was afraid. She wanted to share with me something so complex and intangible that the shallow emotional vocabulary of human and witch didn’t have the words or cultural background to define it. She was waiting for me to figure it out. And I lumped it all with sex because I didn’t understand. "
29 " Hello-o-o-o-o, Nick,” I said, hitting thek hard. “You’re the world’s biggest jerk for what you did to Jax. You ever show your scrawny face in Cincinnati again, and I’m going to shove a broomstick up your ass and set it on fire. You got that? "
30 " Witches married outside their species all the time, especially before the Turn. There were perfectly acceptable options: adoption, artificial insemination, borrowing your best friend’s boyfriend for a night. Issues of what was morally right and wrong tended not to matter when you found yourself in love with a man you couldn’t tell you weren’t human. It sort of went with the whole hiding-among-humans-for-the-last-five-thousand-years thing. "
31 " Together we made our way from the service entrances in back to the front, Jenks shedding clothes and handing them to me to stuff in my bag every few yards. It was terribly distracting, but I managed to avoid running into the Dumpsters and recycling bins. "
32 " In a smooth, unhurried motion, Jenks reached out and slapped him. “Seems to me you should pull the brains out of your ass. "
33 " I didn’t want to go to jail. Unlike Takata, I looked awful in orange. "
34 " You’re big enough to bite now, mosquito, so shut up. "
35 " What was it with me and organized beatings, anyway? "
36 " Vamps were homebodies—high-maintenance, party-till-you-die, don’t-look-at-me-funny-or-I’ll-kill-you homebodies, but homebodies nevertheless. "
37 " I could not believe this. I was going to be hacked to shreds to the accompaniment of applause. "
38 " And L-M-N-O-P is not one letter, but five. It took me forever to figure that out. "
39 " And I might collapse from the cold anyway. How do you stand it, Rache? Tink’s titties, I think parts of me fell off. "
40 " I snorted, pulling myself in and already knowing what Jenks thought pixies did first best. And it wasn’t saving my ass like he told everyone. "