Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how..

Rachel knew what she was doing. And when she didn't, she could improvise on the fly, coming up with options that left a lot of collateral damage but ….

I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, drea….

Somehow I found him. Somehow I found Al's sarcastic thoughts, bitter and old. Tired, angry, bored. Alone..

I suddenly realized that a bunch of my friends needed babysitters and vowed to start screening my calls..

No, you just keep crashing my life. Look—" I said, and Al grunted. "Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to….

The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!.

Yes, but . . .” She hesitated, her gaze finally coming to me. “I survived because I fell in love.” With you was unspoken..

Behind the fury, he was tired. He was tired of being hauled around and shoved into a little room. He was tired of trying for me and failing. And to h….

But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds ….

If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that..

I’m not going anywhere with you, you little shoemaker,” I said (Rachel to Trent).

Rachel?” came Ivy’s voice from her room. “Where’s my sword?” “In the foyer where you left it last week when the evangelists were canvassing the neigh….

My office is trashed,” he grumped as he squished across his damp carpet and took the coffee that I was holding out to him. “Why are you smiling? My f….

He grinned. “That’s because pixies are ever-after. We’re magic, baby. Just ask Matalina..

I have to save the world tomorrow, and I don't even know what I'm going to wear yet.--Rachel Morgan.

Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard.” - Al to Rachel.

Shut up," I hissed. Ticked that he was taller than me, I stepped up onto a nearby coffee table. "I'm not in a cage anymore," I said, keeping enough p….

Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better..

Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid..

she had given me a piece of what made her life sane..