It wasn't that I didn't feel like sharing. Mostly I just figured they couldn't do anything about it, so there was no point in worrying them. I said, 'A wee little bit,' instead, in honor of being in I...
Desert heat or not, the idea that my younger self was facing her last moments was a bucket of cold water in the face. I didn’t like her, but she appeared to have her shit together in a way I hadn’t fo...
I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on top of it. O...
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...
All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit, but a man who can clear his thoughts may survive.
Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.
Behaving never got anybody anywhere fun,
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?...
I could kidnap your mother, he offered. If you need the phone records explained.
I swear on Annie’s grave, Gary repeated to Mel, this ain’t my fault. They were like this when I picked ’em up at the station.
Society dictated foolish amounts of discretion in response to bad behavior, especially for women.
Imagined slights could be more poisonous than real ones.
The dancers were whisked away to the hospital suffering from severe electrolyte imbalances, which my mind insisted on processing as severe acolyte imbalances. Once I’d been assured they’d be okay, I k...
Since I didn't have any world-class fencing skills, I kicked Cernunnos in the nuts again. I didn't have to know how to use a sword to do that, and he was standing there like he was asking for it, so i...
He had a tail. A bear's tail, short and waggily and not at all in keeping with the general size and ferocity of him. Except it was, because bears, after all, were large and ferocious. But they were al...
Friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps
Alban’s eyes widened, palpable shock rolling off him. Daisani’s assistant? That Vanessa Gray? That one. Alban whistled, a long high sound of wind howling through stone, and Margrit looked at him in su...
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...
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind.
I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn’t believe me.
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