My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.
If brains were glazier’s putty, he couldn’t weatherproof a windowless room.
I had to search a moment before spotting the soft glow advancing along the aisles between enemy divisions. It surrounded a child on a big white horse, bearing a standard of red emblazoned with a white...
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. A...
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. An...
He’d described himself as looking like a child molester waiting for a chance to strike. He wasn’t comfortable with his appearance.
Evil is relative, Annalist. You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.
Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The
Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from?
Best way out, Elmo observed laconically, would be to kill everybody who knows anything, then all of us fall on our swords.Sounds a little extreme, Goblin opined. But if you want to go first, I’m right...
An army without faith in itself is beaten more surely than an army defeated in battle.
About you and me, Croaker and his gang, the Lady, Silent, Darling. About all the things we had in common but still couldn’t get along. I didn’t see all that much you had in common. Not once you got pa...
A guy I worked with and I talked it over about what you do with drunks. His dad was a reformed drunk. He told me you got to stop trying to help them out. You got to stop making excuses for them and no...
Goblin, that was a dumb stunt.- It sure was. Made me feel forty years younger.
Money has no provenance. It’s never dirty, only the people who handle it are.
Troll? I squeaked. Yes. He’s got jaws like a saber-tithed tooger. Soobertoothed teegar. The goddamned growly things with the fangs.
These boys both fell out of the ugly tree at a young age, hitting every damned branch on the way down. Then their mommas whupped them with an ugly stick and fed them ugly soup every day of their lives...
None of us are going to get out of this alive so we might as well grab a laugh while we can.
My equally peerless memory allows as to how she included you in that base canard. Would that be a musical instrument? Might we find it in the orchestra pit? What kind of musician plays the bass canard...
Mistakes that cost lives aren’t easy to understand or forgive, but they happen. Despite what they want us mortals to believe, doctors are human. And where there are human beings, there’s human error....