You can’t photograph anything really supernatural, I pointed out. The energies around things like that will mess up cameras.
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.
Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone el...
My answer came out at once. For me, chivalry isn’t dead; it’s an involuntary reflex. It could have been any woman asking for help, and I’d have said the same thing. It might have taken me a second or...
You go back, Jack said. And you catch the scum who did you. Back? I said. Back to … Earth, yeah, Jack said. Chicago. He closed the folder and dropped it into his out-box. You gotta find out who killed...
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?
Murphy nodded, frowning at the road ahead of her. The reason treachery is so reveiled, she said in a careful tone of voice, is because it usually comes from someone you didn't think could possibly do...
We are as the dead, Sha said. Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And, when it is necessary, to surrender those lives. When we become what we are, we lose our lives - our...
I shook my head, bewildered. They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we’ve got nothing, nothing at all, on women.
That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types, I said. You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.
How long have you been a Wiccan?''A what?''A pagan. A witch.''I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.'Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?''Wizard has a Z'He looked at me bl...
You're in America now, I said. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.
Me and the Blue Beetle kick ass. In a four-cylinder kind of way, but it still gets kicked.
No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.
What did the heroines in dramas and books do in such circumstances?Frequently, it seemed, they would use their feminine wiles upon their male captors, promising them amorous attention and then turning...
One grip shy of a steering column? Grimm suggested. Ten degrees short of a compass? Aviating without goggles?
Not like those Dungeons and Dragons games. The real thing. He bought some of those tarot cards. She pronounced it like carrot. Amateurs.
Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?
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...
It's a tradition, Grimm said. Were traditions rational, they’d be procedures.
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