"... even though two decades and several years had gone by since [she] first decided to be a fairy, even though Lizabeth Kane now stood five feet six inches tall in her stocking feet, even though she was thirty two years old - she still had aspirations of growing up to be a fairy." p.2

"[Matt] looked at [Lizabeth's] left hand. No ring. He was doomed. How could he refuse a job to a woman who was about to barbecue Spot to keep her kids from starving?" p. 8

"[Lizabeth] wasn't about to be fooled by the crease in [Matt's] jeans. Anyone with eyebrow like that and a tattoo on his arm had to be part barbarian." p. 20

"[Matt] was jealous of [Lizabeth], he realized. She had two kids and a wacky aunt, a dog, a cat, a house she loved. She had a future that was filled to the...