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We all have skeletons in our closets. Some of us are just better at hiding them behind the hangers filled with clothes." "Yeah, right, you don't seem like the type of guy who has a pile of femur bones stuffed behind your collared shirts and navy blue blazers." Nick and Wilson

So the gods must mean something else,_ said Jix.__od, not gods!_ insisted Johnnie.Nick threw up his hands. __od, gods, or whatever,_ said Nick. __ight now, it doesn__ matter whether it__ Jesus, or Kukulcan, or a dancing bear at the end of the tunnel. What matters is that we have a clue, and we have to figure it out.___hy?_ Johnnie asked again. __hy does God _ excuse me, I mean __he Light of Universal Whatever_- why does it just give us a freakin_ impossible clue? Why can__ it just tell us what we__e supposed to do?___ecause,_ said Mikey. __he Dancing Bear wants us to suffer.

You talk like we're in open warfare." "Aren't we?" The man blew on his tea. "You're pointing a gun at something." "I'm annoyed.

Sometimes I feel better around you. I kind of like your face' -Nick

Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There__ the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there__ the size-doesn__-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem_and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.

[He] carefully put a funky-looking pair of reading glasses on her. "There we go. How are they?"She blinked experimentally, peering around the room. "Good, I think. Thank you.""Wear them the next time we f***. That would be thanking me.""Aww. You say the sweetest things.""Don't I?

Mooooon!_ said the Ogre. __ranquility _ Then he pointed at the full moon. __eil Armstrong walked in a sea of Tranquility._ Then he added, __t__ made of cheese. But you have to take off the plastic before you put it on a burger.__ickey sighed.__hat__ his story?_ the wraith asked.__e__ chocolate,_ Mikey said.

Dude, you're scaring the crap out of me,' said Nick. 'I'm serious, I literally have no crap right now.

you're so full of shit, you ought to be a cow manure

Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world.__oth Nick and Mikey just stared at her.__hat do you mean _ end?_ asked Mikey.__nd means end. Complete and total destruction. She wants to kill everyone and everything. She wants to bring down every building, burn every forest, empty every ocean of life. She wants to turn the earth into a dead planet _

Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?"She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan."Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right?

I came to get you. I knew you'd freak

Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.

You know I'd follow you anywhere. Even if it's straight to Hell.

You're dressed for dancing," she said in her throaty stage voice. "Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn't think Merris would like it.

To my surprise, Nick reached under his shirt and pulled out the half-heart pendant. With his gaze fixed on mine, he slid the chain over my head. __o one should have to go through life with only half a heart,_ he whispered.

This isn__ a church social, Sweetheart. You aren__ going to be able to save me this time.