Part of winning is a downdeep certainty that, no matter how bad things look, a road to victory will open.
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....
Lightning from a clear sky smote the Necropolitan Hill.
Let’s say the madonnas of the night in Elm were severely disappointed in the Black Company.
It was one of those moments in which I become very uncomfortable. One of those times when nothing you say can be right, and almost anything you do say is wrong. I could see no answer but the classic C...
It is an age lurching along the lip of a dark precipice, peeking fearfully into chaos's empty eyes, enrapt, like a giddy rat trying to stare down a hungry cobra. The gods are restless, tossing and tur...
I was never really a girl, or a woman, or a human being to Raven, Case. Even though he did awful things for me. I was a symbol, an expiation, and when I insisted on becoming a person he did the only t...
I reserve the right to be unreasonable, inconsistent, and arbitrary in an unreasonable, inconsistent, and arbitrary universe.
Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony.
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?
An army without faith in itself is beaten more surely than an army defeated in battle.
Can’t get my people inside. These crackpots are abidingly paranoid. If a man has even a tenth part nonhuman blood, he’s a breed and part of the problem. Never mind he might have been a war hero. The s...
We all have our pasts. I suspect we keep them nebulous not because we are hiding from our yesterdays but because we think we will cut more romantic figures if we roll our eyes and dispense delicate hi...
The first thing I saw was a mottled green face half a yard wide staring through the broken window. I said something intelligent like, Gleep! The face grinned. It was a groll, a hybrid of human, troll,...
Limper flopped violently. The gag flew out of his mouth. His ankle bonds parted. He gained his feet, tried to run, tried to mouth some spell that would protect him. He had gone thirty feet when a thou...
Its front sags against its neighbor to the right, clinging for support like one of its own drunken patrons.
I was my usual charming morning self, threatening blood feud with anyone fool enough to disturb my dreams.
I am a haunted man. I am haunted by the Limper’s screams. I am haunted by the Lady’s laughter.
I am a haunted man. I am haunted by the Limper’s screams. I am haunted by the Lady’s laughter. I am haunted by my suspicion that we are furthering the cause of something that deserves to be scrubbed f...