It wasn’t until later that I would realize that I was babbling a chant of Ubriacha, ubrius, ubrium, to the Peanuts theme music.
It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the ph...
There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predi...
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...
I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles
Just then, Toot buzzed back into the apartment from somewhere. He zipped in frantic, dizzying circles, starting at the point he'd last seen Lacuna, until his spiral search pattern took him to the kitc...
If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.
Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.
The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, he said, and turned for the door.
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.
HOW CAN YOU KNOW THIS? the Voice demanded.I look at things and think about them, Folly replied. And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical m...
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.
Oh, dear. Oh dear? Bernard asked. She reached up and touched her throat, where Bernard’s ring still hung by its chain. Oh, dear. We’ve survived. We’re alive. And . . . and we’re wed. Bernard blinked a...
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,...
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.
When a mortal dreams, all kinds of strange things can happen. When a wizard dreams, it can be even weirder. Sometimes, dreams can be intense enough to create a little, temporary world of their own.
I had to maintain a fine balance between going in ready for trouble and going in asking for trouble.
I’m a wizard. That means I have power, and power and responsibility go hand in hand.
Just remember, Harry, I told you this was a bad idea. Preemptive I-told-you-sos, I said. Now I’ve seen everything.
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