The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.
That woman, Grimm said quietly, drives me quite insane.Kettle grunted. Why'd you marry her, then?
Tell me something about her. People make fun of her?Some did, she said. I never liked it, but...Crap. I looked at Molly and said, Code Carrie. We're in trouble.
Technically,' I said, I'm not breaking any of the Laws of Magic. I'm not robbing you of your will, so I'm clear of the Fourth Law. And you didn't get loose, so I'm clear of the Seventh Law. The Counci...
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.
Stop, Kincaid said in a calm voice. Unclench.Unclench what? Murphy demanded.Unclench your ass. me?You're going to trip the beam. You need another quarter inch. Relax.I am relaxed, Murphy growled.Oh, K...
Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations. I
Some things just aren't meant to go together. Thinks like oil and Water. Orange juice and toothpaste.Wizards and television....
So there are things stacked against us, I said. What else is new?
So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare somewhere nearby.
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,...
See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.
Righteous. The real deal. He’s honest, loyal, faithful. He lives his ideals. It gives him power.
People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.
Parkour, I panted. Bitch.
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.
Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you...
One thing about intimidation is that people can always think up something worse that you could do to them than you can, if you leave their imagination some room to play.
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.
Ogres were wyldfae--they could work for either Winter or Summer, and they could have a range of personalities and temperaments running the gamut from jovially violent to maliciously violent.