On Harpy’s Drive we passed a row of trees, each one with its trunk unnaturally bloated and covered with black fuzz. I had no idea what the fuzz did, but we steered clear of it. The law of navigating p...
On the plus side, if he ever had to fight through a roomful of adolescent girls, he only needed to blink (his velvet brown eyes framed in embarassingly long lashes) a few times, and they would all fai...
One day you’ll have to choose diplomacy or your spouse. I’m telling you now, it’s got to be your wife. Diplomacy doesn’t care if you live or die. Your wife does.
Outside I hopped into our vehicle, the taint of vampiric magic clinging to me like greasy smoke. I feel soiled. Like walking into a room after a day of work, falling into bed, and realizing the sheets...
Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind . . . I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it w...
Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think...
People around me died, usually in horrible and bloody ways.
People get upset over many things. Frustrating jobs, small paychecks, bad hours. People want things; people feel humiliated by others who have the things they want; people feel deprived and powerless....
People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can't be free.
People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can’t be free. A
People never wanted to tell me their life stories. They usually scooted out of my way and said things like, Take whatever you want; just go.
People think I built the Pack, because I'm the guy who has the welfare of all shapeshifters in mind. They're wrong. Everything I built, I did so that when I mate and have children, nobody can touch my...
Perhaps if you were less heavy-handed in your treatment of the guests you claim to honor and protect, your inn would have a higher rating.He did not. Oh yes, yes he did. Perhaps if you trained the kni...
Pretty speech, he said.It’s the only one I’ve got.I know what’s really going on here. You’re scared to step into my world. Afraid you can’t hack it. Much better to hide here and be a big fish in a ver...
Punch any of mine, and I’ll break your arm off and beat you to death with it.
Really, Luther, if I knew you were that hungry, I would’ve picked up some takeout. At the sound of my voice, he turned. You! Me. What is this? He looked at Julie. Mini-you?
Rogan gave him a flat stare. Lesser men would’ve fled for their life, but Augustine was clearly made of sterner stuff.
Say ‘pop.’ Pop?That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass. If you stick it back up there again, there is nothing I can do about it. This is the only lecture you’ll ever get from me.
Scared? Of you? Nah. If you grow claws, I might get my sword, but I’ve fought you in your human shape. It took all my will to shrug. You aren’t that impressive.He cleared the distance between us in a...
She’d been around long enough to know that it was a rare man who fully accepted responsibility for his actions, who didn’t offer any excuses.
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