I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab’s bed. (My li...
That's arrogance, Harry. he said, gently. On a level so deep, you don't even realize it exists. And do you know why it's there? No? I asked. He smiled again. Because you have set a higher standard fo...
A ship's captain was her master and the right hand of God in Heaven Himself, and concerned with matters of such grave importance that minor issues like food for the mortals in his command were entirel...
There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out hadn’t shown up or spoken to me for more than a year.
Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.Gggrrrr rawf arrrgggrrrrarrrr, I said.Mouse gave me an impatient glance, and somehow--I don't know if it was something in...
Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine.
Please, help me. Young werewolves in love. I turned to walk into the house, moving carefully.I had never much believed in God. Well, that's not quite true. I believed that there was a God, or somethin...
Thank God for imminent doomsday.
I now had two handy shafts of wood with jagged, pointy ends. I stepped between Inari and the nearest vampire and passed her one broken half of the rod. Here, I said. If you get the chance, make like B...
I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago, I said at once. Elvii? Marcone inquired.The plural would be Elvises, I guess, I said. But if I say that too often, I start muttering...
Star Trek? I asked her. Really? What? she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly, I said. Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This i...
Wait. You work for me?I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.
You're supposed to be a spirit of intellect. I don't understand why you're obsessed with sex.Bob's voice got defensive. It's an academic interest, Harry.Oh yeah? Well maybe I don't think it's fair to...
Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.
But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.
Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.
Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean, when you think about it, jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane, it defies the gravity of an entire planet by explo...
It’s boring.Oh, I said. I rubbed at my jaw. You think I should have gone four-color?Bob stared at me for a second and said, I have nightmares about Hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to ha...
I realized then what had happened.She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into great, gaunt, long-legged hounds.Wonderful! Lea said, pirouetting upon one toe, laughing. Come, children! And she...
You already beat yourself up for enough things that aren't your fault. People who care don't want to add to that. He paused, and then added gently, But you assumed it was about you. I finished the bee...