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At least if Iwas picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever.

C.E. Murphy

At least if Iwas picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever.

Tags: relationship humor

You went back in time, he repeated, and you expect his cell phone to work?Well, no, I just, I mean, I came back and he hasn’t! Shouldn’t he have?Morrison, very steadily, said, Were you together?No! I...

C.E. Murphy

You went back in time, he repeated, and you expect his cell phone to work?Well, no, I just, I mean, I came back and he hasn’t! Shouldn’t he have?Morrison, very steadily, said, Were you together?No! I...

Tags: morrison

About Author
Catherine E. Murphy, writing primarily under the byline C. E. Murphy, (born June 1, 1973) is an American-born author, based in Ireland, who writes in the fantasy and romance genres. She is the author of the Walker Papers series, The Negotiator Trilogy, and the Inheritor's Cycle as well as The Strongbox Chronicles (written under a pseudonym). She has also written the graphic novel Take a Chance.

What mattered, what really mattered, was that I could just maybe save one person. Nobody could save every one, but I could help individuals, and that, when I got right down to it, was a hell of a thin...

C.E. Murphy

What mattered, what really mattered, was that I could just maybe save one person. Nobody could save every one, but I could help individuals, and that, when I got right down to it, was a hell of a thin...

He fell ass over tea Kettle

C.E. Murphy

He fell ass over tea Kettle

He can’t keep this up forever, Joanne. Stop fucking around. Did other people have little voices in their heads that said things like that?

C.E. Murphy

He can’t keep this up forever, Joanne. Stop fucking around. Did other people have little voices in their heads that said things like that?

Find anything about the Blade? Billy let out an explosive sigh and creaked back in his chair, hands folded behind his head. Comic book references. Stuff about some swordsman named Bob Anderson. Wesley...

C.E. Murphy

Find anything about the Blade? Billy let out an explosive sigh and creaked back in his chair, hands folded behind his head. Comic book references. Stuff about some swordsman named Bob Anderson. Wesley...

They're constants, aren't they? ... Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like...

C.E. Murphy

They're constants, aren't they? ... Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like...

What do you suppose we would do, I said conversationally, if we ever had sex? I mean, what would we call each other? Captain and Walker? Morrison and Detective? Or would we just find excuses to not ca...

C.E. Murphy

What do you suppose we would do, I said conversationally, if we ever had sex? I mean, what would we call each other? Captain and Walker? Morrison and Detective? Or would we just find excuses to not ca...

You think you're special? I promise you, you're not! That goddamned piece of stone is supposed to keep you safe while I try to figure out how to fix all the crap I've fucked up. I need you to have tha...

C.E. Murphy

You think you're special? I promise you, you're not! That goddamned piece of stone is supposed to keep you safe while I try to figure out how to fix all the crap I've fucked up. I need you to have tha...

If you’re going to get technical, you’re going to lose all your friends.

C.E. Murphy

If you’re going to get technical, you’re going to lose all your friends.

I opened my eyes to find Gary and my mother sitting cross-legged up against a half-fallen wall, both of them laughing so hard they had tears running down their faces. My mother had Gary’s forearm in o...

C.E. Murphy

I opened my eyes to find Gary and my mother sitting cross-legged up against a half-fallen wall, both of them laughing so hard they had tears running down their faces. My mother had Gary’s forearm in o...

Why do airline pilots always call passengers folks? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that man encompasses the whole darned race -- bu...

C.E. Murphy

Why do airline pilots always call passengers folks? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that man encompasses the whole darned race -- bu...

Tags: humor, urban shaman

I had come to regard pride as the defining characteristic of a gentleman, when indeed I should think the word itself, gentleman, should impress upon me what aspect I ought to have settled on as the de...

C.E. Murphy

I had come to regard pride as the defining characteristic of a gentleman, when indeed I should think the word itself, gentleman, should impress upon me what aspect I ought to have settled on as the de...

She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

C.E. Murphy

She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn’t believe me.

C.E. Murphy

I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn’t believe me.

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

C.E. Murphy

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

You ever get the feeling your life is a string festooned with bells and tie4d to hundreds of others you don't know anything about? And that sometimes somebody pulls their string, and your bells ring?...

C.E. Murphy

You ever get the feeling your life is a string festooned with bells and tie4d to hundreds of others you don't know anything about? And that sometimes somebody pulls their string, and your bells ring?...

All I've got is a pocketful of attitude.

C.E. Murphy

All I've got is a pocketful of attitude.

He rallied a little. Who are you? What do you know about this? Disease control is our job, not yours. Who are you?My name, I said, mostly uner my breath, is Siobhan Grainne MacNamarra Walkingstick, an...

C.E. Murphy

He rallied a little. Who are you? What do you know about this? Disease control is our job, not yours. Who are you?My name, I said, mostly uner my breath, is Siobhan Grainne MacNamarra Walkingstick, an...

I can tell the difference between a Corvette and a Mustang. It was the woman sitting on the hood that got me flustered.

C.E. Murphy

I can tell the difference between a Corvette and a Mustang. It was the woman sitting on the hood that got me flustered.