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Zee said, grumpily, Liebling, this is not a good idea. Zee, I told him, I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.

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If you could just see your face, she told me. You look like a cat in a bathtub.

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Yes, well," said his da with a hint of a grow that told him just how worried Bran had been about him, "that'll teach you to dodge a bit quicker next time." "Sorry," he apologized meekly as he sat in the passenger seat. "Good," said Bran, shutting the door gently. "Don't let it happen again." -Bran and Charles

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Obstreperous, 'huh, said Tad. I see you've been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas. That is irrefragable, I told him solemnly.

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His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

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Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him.

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There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick's car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.

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You are a sick, sick man, I told him. Thank you, Ben replied, looking modest.

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Do you have any idea how much I love you? he asked. Enough to accept my apologies? I suggested in a small voice. Heck no, he said, and pushed off from the wall, stalking forward. When he reached me, he put his hands up and touched the sides of my neck with the tips of his fingers – as if I were something fragile. No apologies from you, he told me, his voice soft enough to melt my knees and most of my other parts.

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Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot.

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Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been happier if he hadn't sounded scared. "Easy, Warren," Adam told him. "You're safe here. "If you die on us, you won't be," said Kyle with a growl that would have done credit to any of the werewolves in the room.

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His voice was soft and sweet as molasses; but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.

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Are you going to tell me what that was about? Adam asked as we went back upstairs. Sometime, I told him. When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

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I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

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That's a pretty lame superhero name, I told him. Scooby-Doo is already taken, he said with dignity. Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

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His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.

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Mercy? Just a minute, I told Adam. I'm in the middle of a revelation.

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Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kidnapping." "I forgot about that." And I was appalled because I knew better. "Bran and Samuel are probably more of a danger than any of the fae," I told him. "Someday, I'll tell you about some of the more spectaculare wedding antics Samuel's told me about." Some of them made kidnapping look mild.

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C'est moi, c'est moi,'tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn't know if he'd catch the reference. I shouldn't have worried. Unexpectedly, he laughed. Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.

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My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but I underestimated how badly hurt I was." "Stupid," she said tartly. He looked up at her, and whatever he saw in her face made him smile, though his voice was serious when he answered her charge. "Yes. You throw my judgement off." -Charles and Anna when he thought she was leaving him and Changed when he was injured

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