I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.
Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza? Dead pigs and cows, I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. They're vegetarians, I said defensively.
They're always too strong. There's always more of them, and they're always too strong.
Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.
Just remember, Harry, I told you this was a bad idea. Preemptive I-told-you-sos, I said. Now I’ve seen everything.
I gritted my teeth and got out of Butters’s car,
It wasn’t until later that I would realize that I was babbling a chant of Ubriacha, ubrius, ubrium, to the Peanuts theme music.
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...
She looked up at me with a polite smile, her dark hair long and appealing...I liked the smile. Maybe I didn't look like a beaten-up bum. Maybe on me it just looked ruggedly determined.I'm sorry, sir,...
Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts...
It gets sort of Zen after a while, Butters said brightly. Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.
I love you. Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmother's spell frayed as though the words had been an open flame, I don't know. I haven't found any explanation for it. There aren't any...
Gruff, I said, I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.
To whom much is given, much is required.
The best magic comes from the inside.
There is more to the world than what a review board publishes about an officer or aeronaut, Miss Lancaster. Guard. Your. Tongue.
One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.
Significance is cumulative—but not always obvious.
Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.
Tavi grinned. ‘Are you with me?’ ‘The plan is insane,’ Ehren said. ‘You are insane.’ He looked around the inside of the tent. ‘I’ll need some pants.
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