Kat held her head high as she met the King's eye. Her stare was bold, yet sweet, and it would not die. Gansevort looked down into these dark, green pools. And soon his tone softened as he bought her ruse.

— J.Z. Bingham

Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence department. Apply the massive computing technology of the CIA to hiring, along with the naive appeal of the exciting, though perhaps not so lucrative life of a spy, and any headhunter would be jealous of the results.

— Lynn Blackmar

Leather and tattoos, they were his cover, and she wondered what she’d find when she unwrapped him.

— Cindy Skaggs

Life is a sewer, and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you have to have a giggle.)

— Stephen B. Pearl

Like the dark clouds above that promised rain but withheld it, her presence there was a lie. For in truth, this horrific slaughter had already damned the small race; their fate had already come and gone.

— S.J. Pow

Mick was always the right kind of dirty. Windblown, fresh off his bike, wrapped in tattoo and leather. Muscles all the hell over the place. The man was a serious piece of eye candy. Thinking about him losing the leather warmed the chill that had gripped her since the attack.

— Cindy Skaggs

Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.

— T.K. Naliaka

My father and I used to watch a ton of old horror movies when I was growing up. ’The Creature from the Black Lagoon‘ was one of my father’s favorites, and he was very excited for me to see the film. But after the movie was over, I told him that I was kind of bored. I said to him, ‘I’m sorry, Daddy, but I saw the zipper in the back of the monster’s costume. From that point on, I was really never scared at all. The point I’m trying to make is that I don’t believe someone intentionally tipped off the target. And I maintain that no one made some horrendous mistake, which I’m now trying to cover up. I believe what really happened with the operation was that our target ended up seeing the zipper. Oslo Charms realized something around him wasn’t… real. And he was able to avoid the trap we had laid out for him.

— Richard Finney

No I'm not a dream, I'm your worst nightmare

— C.T. Todd

None of us could choose our birth, but we could still choose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.

— Meg Xuemei X