You could’ve found me. You could’ve demanded an explanation. Instead your bright idea to deal with this mess was not to talk to me. Do you get off having me chase after you like some sixteen-year-old?...
You are not a gentle flower who spends its whole life in a greenhouse. You are a wildfire, Lark. A wildfire.
Yes, sir. I was going to kiss you good night, but now I can’t. It’s against the rules to fraternize with my superior officer.
William glanced at her. Does your sister ground you often? No. She mostly does this. Georgie rolled his eyes in perfect imitation of her and muttered, Why me?
Why can’t you go if you’re so concerned?He sighed. Because certain people aren’t altogether rational at the moment. If I came with you, I’d have to answer uncomfortable questions. I ask questions, I d...
Who the hell would attack the Steel Horse anyway? What was the thinking behind that? Here is a bar full of psychotic killers who grow giant claws and people who pilot the undead for a living. I think...
When visitors came to the fine state of Texas, they expected a dry, rolling plain studded with longhorn cattle, oil derricks, and an occasional cowboy in a huge hat. According to them, that plain had...
When in doubt and in need of information, find a snitch and squeeze him.
When a man takes up arms, he does so for many reasons. Sometimes to punish, sometimes to intimidate or frighten. But when a woman picks up a weapon, she means to kill.
When I come crawling home, bleeding and filthy and exhausted, the house is dark and empty.
What part of no don’t you understand?The part where I don’t get what I want.
We have to stop anyway. I don’t want you to regret this later. And I don’t want your head to explode. Really? You’re so good that my head would explode? It took him a moment. His expression changed fr...
We have to get the Diamond. And Cesare’s head. They looked at me. Why the head? Doolittle asked. Because it’s easy to carry and I can torture it for a long time. And I didn’t just say it out loud, did...
We are family. You will always have a place in my house. I won't abandon you... You have people, Julie. You are not alone.
This wasn’t the world of normal people. Yet somehow I kept getting stuck in it.
This was hell and I was its fury. I raised my sword and killed again, with a smile on my face.
There is nothing you can offer me, she said. Oh, I don’t know. You might change your mind. You’re like me, Victoria. He grinned. You like to do things that make life interesting. We both do so hate to...
There are many different kinds of evil. Some people are evil because they like to cause pain. Some people are evil because they are selfish and care only about themselves. He is the worst kind of evil...
The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered.
The sound of my name in his voice stopped me in midturn. I don't know how the hell he did it, but whenever he said my name, it cut through all other distractions and made me pause, as if he'd clenched...