It's a mistake to be too much one of your own as they'll never see you as fully in charge.

It may be you confused undercover with undercovered.

You've played the games. You're a competitive soul." "What's the point of playing if winning isn't the goal?

When you don't know what you can have, you do okay with what you've got.

She strode away, steeling both her heart and her belly against the hurt. It wasn't just the body, she thought, that could shatter. And it wasn't only fists and pipes and bats that could shatter it.

I've eliminated everything else. This is what's left. And when you've eliminated everything else, what's left should be true.

Murder did that. Took lives, crushed others, changed still others forever.

That was another thing about partners, she decided. They knew what would make you laugh, often before you did.

One might be a coincidence." Hands on her hips, she turned back. "Put them together it's a pattern.

Winning can be addictive," Mira agreed. "So can murder.

When someone believes they're smarter, more talented, just plain more right than anyone else, and they harbor this kind of need, they're very, very dangerous.

Did she know, could she know what it meant to him when she turned to him, when she opened herself to him like this? In absolute trust. Her strength, her valor remained a constant wonder to him, as did...

His in-house intercom greeted him with a cheery 'Welcome home, Bart,' and his server droid - custom-made to replicate Princess Leia, classic 'Star Wars,' slave-girl mode {he was a nerd, but he was...

It's Nerd World, Peabody said. Or Geek Galaxy. I can't decide which because it's full of nerds and geeks. It's Nerd World in the Geek Galaxy.

Maybe I just didn't want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it'd be depressing. Who wants to be depressed?Poets, Eve decided. You have to think they must.Okay,...

She wondered why two people who loved each other to the point of stupid managed to aggravate each other as often as they seemed to.

I know love, and what it does to you, for you. I know that it can bloom out of friendship, or that friendship can open out of love. Both are precious. And when you have both, there's little that can't...

A lot of nasty things grow out of love if it isn't ... tended right. Jealousy, hate, resentment, suspicion.

No one's indispensable. Except you to me.

Try to look like Peabody.Sorry?Serious, official, yet approachable.You forgot adorable.Peabody is adorable.She is from my perspective. Besides, I was talking about me.

Maybe they're out doing the tango and drinking tequila shots. He sent Eve a grin. As we will be when we reach their age. After which we'll come home and have mad sex.For God's sake. This is on the...

Officer down. Officer down.""I'm an officer now, am I? That's insult to injury.

Hotter than a fuck in hell.

What's the point of playing if winning isn't the goal?