Never walk into a fight when the bad guys are the ones who set it up.
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a cowar...
He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, You are an untidy person.
I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.
Parts of Chicago are wondrous fair, and parts of Chicago look postapocalyptic. This block had seen the apocalypse come, grunted, and said, Meh.
It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.
Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.
A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I w...
Internet, she said sagely. Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.
A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of them made a chittering sound that wasn't very melodic. The other twitched its tail and sp...
That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate.
Polka will never die! Butters screamed. I can’t believe I’m hearing this, Thomas muttered.
The Carpenters had a threshold more solid and extensive than the Great Wall of China. I would not be in the least bit surprised if you could see it from space.
Are you serious? What the hell does a stunt double do in a porno flick?Jake waved a hand vaguely toward his belt. Extreme close-ups.Uh. What?Historically speaking, it doesn't happen often. Especially...
Arrogance, I said. I feel stupid. Good, Michael said. It’s good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.
It isn’t enough to stand up and fight darkness. You’ve got to stand apart from it, too. You’ve got to be different from it.
Mab had the kind of power you had to describe using exponents.
He had no frame of reference, and couldn’t read—most faeries were studiously averse to print.
Mab narrowed her eyes, and a little smile graced her lips. Impudent, she said. It’s sweet on you.
You’re a genuine Greek god. You’re the Lord of the Underworld. And . . . you named your dog Spot?
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