You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.
Harry, Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, what you know about women, I could juggle.
It's a shadelight, Grimm said quietly. Some of my men put one up whenever I lose a member of the crew. To light his shade's way back to his bunk, so he can rest.A bit heathen of them, I suppose, Bened...
So there are things stacked against us, I said. What else is new?
Harry, she said quietly, I know you must be angry.I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry, I said. I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.
I can't believe I'm about to say this, I said. So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?
Sometimes you wake up, and there's a little voice inside your head that tells you that today is a special day. For a lot of kids, it sometimes happens on their birthday, and always on Christmas mornin...
With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.
I... drew out the gun I kept at home, a great big old Dirty Harry Callahan number that weighed about seventy-five thousand pounds.
It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong. He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. And this was wrong.
I'm not a philosopher, Harry, [Michael] said. But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around. He paused for a moment,...
Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out of crepe paper and duct tape and boasted a computer system that looked like it co...
Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadn't learned, thoug...
There is more to the world than what a review board publishes about an officer or aeronaut, Miss Lancaster. Guard. Your. Tongue.
Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.
Thank God for wisecracks.
Finally, I said, very quietly, 'I don't know if I'm one of the good guys anymore.
Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.
Kestus idly added theoretical torture to the theoretical murder, because done right, it might be funny.
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