Something like this will test you like nothing else, Mac said. You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you...
One grip shy of a steering column? Grimm suggested. Ten degrees short of a compass? Aviating without goggles?
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.
It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient ster...
It's a tradition, Grimm said. Were traditions rational, they’d be procedures.
People are likely to do the most ridiculously illogical things for the most incomprehensible of reasons.
I'm not exactly a useless cream puff.
I was doing the new Summer Lady a favor, running down a roguestorm sylph. Got to go all over the place in those tornado-chasergeekmobiles. You should have seen the look on the driver's face when herea...
Life is unfair, uncaring, and painful,
I’d fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.
I shook my head, bewildered. They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we’ve got nothing, nothing at all, on women.
Wizardry aside, it’s tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats.
Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed. Araris
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.
They're always too strong. There's always more of them, and they're always too strong.
So we get a plan, I said. Any suggestions?Blow up the building, Kincaid said without looking up. That works good for vampires. Then soak what's left in gasoline. Set it on fire. Then blow it all up ag...
Okay, Kincaid said. Anyone have any questions? Why do they sell hot dogs in packages of ten but hot dog buns in packages of eight?
Merlin had, according to legend, created the White Council of Wizards from the chaos of the fall of the Roman Empire. He plunged into the flames of the burning Library of Alexandria to save the most c...
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's hard to think when someone's trying to kill you. We human beings aren't wired to be rational and creative when we know our lives are in danger of a swift and violent end. The body has definite id...
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