Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later.

If you could do me a favor and not tell anyone I, uh, threw myself at you, that would be very kind as well.

I've been watching you ever since you came into town, and you never gave a single sign that you were interested in her. That's why I made a move. If I couldn't tell, neither can she.""I'm very bad at communi-"I know", said Calix firmly. "I am very quickly becoming an expert in how bad at communicating you are. We've established that, and we're moving past it.

You crossed the entire continent together, and yet neither of you made a move?"She huffed another short hollow laugh."No wonder you don't have any children.

Hello, Bradley,' said Mom. She'd regained her composure after my outburst, and now raised her camera. 'Stand close.''No, Mom,' I said. 'No pictures.''But you're friend's here now,' she said, waving us together. 'Smile!''I don't need a picture with-' the flash snapped '-another guy. That's great, Mom, thank you. Send that one to Dad and tell him we're going steady.

Finally Marcus stepped forward. "If you insist on going through me to get him, it's your call. But I warn you, I will probably cry when you hurt me, and you'll fell bad about it later."Vinci looked at him. "That's your defiant speech?""Get used to it," said Marcus. "There's a lot more useless heroics where that came from.

How can it be hard and easy at the same time?” asked Omar.“It's like a really tall wall,” said Anja. “It might be hard to climb, but there's no flying crocodiles to fight off while you do it.

Quiet down," said Falin. "Didn't you say something about an ambush and a murderer?""Crap, yes," said Marcus, and pulled Kira down behind the escalator. "Also: murderess. Don't be sexist, women can murder people too.

And we're more valuable to you alive," said Marcus. Delarosa cocked her head to the side. "How?""Because, um..." Marcus grimaced. "I don't actually know, I just assumed because that's what people typically say at this point.