Butters, I said, Don't give me statistics on heart failure. 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 c...
Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.
I held my hand up, frowning. Wait a minute. Where did you say this thing was stolen from?The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist. Father Vincent said.In Northern Italy. I said.He nodded.In Turin, to b...
Polka will never die! Butters screamed. I can’t believe I’m hearing this, Thomas muttered.
Pain is there to tell us when we’ve done something badly—it’s a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them.
You, Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you simply go away.
I'm brilliant as well as skilled, he said modestly. It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.
Shiro died. There was nothing pretty about it. There was no dignity to it. He'd been brutalized and savagely murdered - and he'd allowed it to happen to him in my place.But when he died, there was a s...
You know how to use magic? I asked. I prefer calculus.
The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you’re going to go. I
It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stai...
You about done? I asked him. I need the table.What is it with you people? Butters groused. For God’s sake, these are real injuries here.There will be more of them than a thousand reluctant physicians...
Holy shit, I breathed. Hellhounds.Harry, Michael said sternly. You know I hate it when you swear.You're right. Sorry. Holy shit, I breathed, heckhounds.
Lady Aquitaine sighed. Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum.
They're always too strong. There's always more of them, and they're always too strong.
The best magic comes from the inside.
Significance is cumulative—but not always obvious.
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...
—«Ya te lo dije» preventivos —señalé—. Ahora sí que lo he visto todo.
The water near me stirred and then a Sharkface rose up out of it as if on an elevator, slow, his mouth tilted up into a small smile. He stood there on the water perhaps five feet away from me. His eye...
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