"Sam would be perfectly happy living in that old car and being a nerd with her laptop if it weren't for her job." Cassie checked the potatoes and drained them.

Yes, but Nathan was used to hearing 'ow' when he used his teeth. And ow made him cry.

Mary just gave her a cheesy grin and offered her a couple of jelly beans- green and blue. They were Bernie Bott's beans, but she'd sniffed them to make sure that they tasted of nothing worse than onions and minty antacid.