If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.
Why do you wear those? asked Lacuna.I jumped, stumbled, and shouted half of a word to a spell, but since I was only halfway done putting on my underwear, I mostly just fell on my naked ass.'' Gah! I s...
Me and the Blue Beetle kick ass. In a four-cylinder kind of way, but it still gets kicked.
But even with centuries of experience, I doubted any of them had ever been hit with a water balloon. Or with a holy-water balloon, either.
With your head, the wall breaks first.
I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than...
Lady Aquitaine sighed. Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum.
—«Ya te lo dije» preventivos —señalé—. Ahora sí que lo he visto todo.
Kord sees power as something to satisfy his desires, instead of a tool to protect and serve the people beholden to him. It’s a stupid attitude, and it will eventually get him killed—but until then it...
There is more to the world than what a review board publishes about an officer or aeronaut, Miss Lancaster. Guard. Your. Tongue.
I'm afraid you made a serious mistake today.Sire?You proved yourself extraordinarily capable, Captain, Albion said. I can hardly let something like that go unremarked.I don't understand, sir, Grimm sa...
Just like old times, I wheezed. Yeah, just like old times, Elaine. You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous . . . And then a thought hit me. Just like old times. . . . deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If...
We followed him through the wealthy splendor of the house. Hardwood floors. Custom carved woodworking. Statues. Fountains. Suits of armor. Original painting, one of them a van Gogh. Stained-glass wind...
More trouble in Faerie. Bigger trouble in Faerie. And I'd be willing to bet dollars to navel lint that I knew exactly which stupid son of a bitch the Council would expect to start poking his nose arou...
I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me.
I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.
Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.
There’s power in the touch of another person’s hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There’s a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands.
The very sound of Creation still echoes throughout the vast darkness: The universe remembers.
He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.That was, he supposed, human nature.
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