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...
Sleep is God. Go worship.
Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, How can you live with yourself?The First Lord stared at her for a moment, his eyes cold. Then he spoke in a very quiet, precise, measured voice. I lo...
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...
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...
I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I...
Love will be the downfall of God himself.
Oh, the girl said, shaking her head. Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You know what a monster is, you...
Oh, good grief. The Mickey Mouse Club of werewolves wanted to throw in on my side.
If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment, Murphy interrupted, I will break your arm in eleven places.
It's a shadelight. Some of my men put one up whenever I lose a member of the crew. To light his shade's way back to his bunk, so he can rest.
Like love, hope is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
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.
Murphy, I hissed. Are you absolutely sure about this hair? That it belongs to Kravos? If it didn’t, the doll wouldn’t do diddly to the sorcerer, unless I managed to throw it into his eye.We’re reasona...
Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed. Araris
I held my hand up, frowning. Wait a minute. Where did you say this thing was stolen from?The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist. Father Vincent said.In Northern Italy. I said.He nodded.In Turin, to b...
The world might be vicious and treacherous and deadly, but it couldn’t kill laughter. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.
Kord sees power as something to satisfy his desires, instead of a tool to protect and serve the people beholden to him. It’s a stupid attitude, and it will eventually get him killed—but until then it...
None of us had known the layout to Marcone’s place, so we’d chosen to approach from the rear, on general principles of sneakiness.
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