Angel! I whirled round. 'No! Don't you Angel me, Marcus Cohen! You've treated me like dirt-suspicious ever finds we met. Testing me is the final straw. You've never thought about how your behavior affects me-not once. You never understood that all I wanted was to be allowed to love you.

— Joss Stirling

But I’ve kept first of March as my birthday as I like to tease Zed about dating an older woman. And my parents wouldn’t understand if I told them about the soul finder bond and tried to change it.”“They don’t know?”“Well, I think they’ve picked up that there’s something special between Zed and me, but I’m not sure how I’d even start to explain to non-savants. I was exactly overjoyed when Zed filled me in about it all the first time.”“What did you do?”“Thumped him with a shopping bag and told him he was a jerk.”“Ouch.

— Joss Stirling

Fine, I'll teach you,''Besides, there's only so many times a girl wants to fall on her butt in front of the boy she's out to impress.

— Joss Stirling

Get out of here. Yoda so does not have an English accent!'' Other than that you're saying I'm a dead ringer?'' If the shoe fits.'' Sheesh, I hate tall girls.

— Joss Stirling

Glancing in through the open door to UAV’s room, I saw Zed stretched out on the queen mattress, his arm hugging a pillow as if he felt Sky’s absence at his side.

— Joss Stirling

Hell-on-skis, can you hear me? This is flying cupcake.

— Joss Stirling

If there’s one thing I learned, it is that blood families can sometimes be the pits; it’s the one you make for yourself that really gives you a home and people to love.

— Joss Stirling

I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it.' Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you.

— Joss Stirling

I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling.

— Joss Stirling

I shook my head, folding my arms around my waist. He was wrong; he was the one offering fairy dust, Peter Pan offering to carry me off to the Neverland of soul finders and happily ever after. But he was too late. Last night I had to be grown up, and I now knew that such dreams did not exist; real life was more like living with Captain Hook's mercenary pirates than playing happy families in a treehouse

— Joss Stirling