If I had nothing else to eat, they'd be great. Anything is better than nothing.

We had a whole bunch of ground meat. When we are through with that, we have venison we'll fry up. And when that is gone, we'll take what fish we got and fry that up.

We are just all so relieved that nobody got hurt, and no real property damage. We feel real lucky. As far as the daily grind and daily business, we are at a standstill.

He would call us every 45 minutes or hour and give us an update. That was the only way we knew the worst wasn't over with.

Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.

Are those paper clips?' I'd seen them in catalogs, but the pictures don't do them justice. They're beautiful, in an industrial sort of way.
Eldric poured a clinking waterfall into my palm. 'Aren't they lovely! I can't keep my hands off them. But I give you fair warning: It was a box of paper clips that got me expelled.'
'Expelled?'
'A box of thousand paper clips,' he said, his long fingers curling, coiling, twisting. 'And a sack of colored glass.'
'Expelled!' I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get expelled. It's far too public.