Xav's Quotes

#1. Glancing in through the open door to Xav's room, I saw Zed stretched out on the queen mattress, his arm hugging a pillow as if he felt Sky's absence at his side.

Joss Stirling

#2. I lost interest in being in the public eye.

Phoebe Snow

#3. Yeah, some women have it and some go out with you.' Xav

Joss Stirling

#4. How am I going to help you?"
"You are going to jump."
"Ha."
"You are."
"Have you done this before?"
"Yeah, with fruit." That was Xav.
"And why am I not reassured?

Joss Stirling

#5. I've just had a really evil idea."
"My favourite kind

Joss Stirling

#6. The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Bertrand Russell

#7. From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

#8. Xav!
Got you. Not letting you go.
I realised I wasn't alone in mental deep space; he had always been there and could pilot me home.

Joss Stirling

#9. I wasn't thinking all of them - just Zed and Victor. Zed as the seventh son has a touch of most of our skills and can hold us together when we do a joint investigation. He's a pain in the neck but a useful one.

Joss Stirling

#10. Trace is cooking Nonna's lasagna."
"Wow. I must see this."
"He was wearing her little apron and everything."
"Got a camera?

Joss Stirling

#11. Xav tugged Yves off me and handed me the call button. You'll be needing this, Phee, when my irritating little squirt of a brother bothers you again. Just press and the nurses will come running. One of them looks like a pro-wrestler, so she'll make short work of him.

Joss Stirling

#12. Hell-on-skis, can you hear me? This is flying cupcake.

Joss Stirling

#13. Xav bounded out behind him. Yeah, Phee equals You-She squared. I've been working on that one: like it?

Joss Stirling

#14. He said he needed to unwind. He was furious we all let you go so far. That boy would stop you so much as breaking a nail if he could.

Joss Stirling

#15. Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

John Brady

#16. I happen to be a Republican President ... ah ... the Vice President.

Dan Quayle

#17. Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#18. One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

Al David

#19. Disappointment of various places and trips. Not really comfortable anywhere. Very soon, this cry: I want to go back! (but where? since she is no longer anywhere, who was once where I could go back). I am seeking my place. Sitio.

Roland Barthes

#20. This kid grew up," he threatened in a deep voice, grinding his hard-on between my legs. "And you're gonna fuckin' find out." Oh. My. God.

Penelope Douglas

#21. Awesome. Trace, you're one lucky son of a ... very lovely mother.

Joss Stirling

#22. I'm so pleased you're such a quick judge of character. You've got him tagged."
"Yep, toe-tagged, in the freezer, then buried six feet under.

Joss Stirling

#23. I want you to be as happy as I am."
"Trust me, that wouldn't be the case if I found myself shackled to Xav Benedict by a quirk of fate.

Joss Stirling