I was casting everything I had done, everything I believed, everything I had chosen—everything I was—against the will of an ancient being of darkness, terror, and malice, a fundamental power of the wo...
Spear and magic helmet, I said in my best Elmer Fudd voice. Be vewy, vewy quiet. We’re hunting vampires.
Sometimes, being able to use magic was so cool.
I work in grand halls and bedchambers with wine and perfume. Not in dark alleyways with cloaks and knives. I don’t like knives. I don’t even own a knife. And my cloaks are far too expensive to risk bl...
Susan smiled at me, giving Molly the Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup,...
This creature serves you? Sanya asked.This one and about a hundred smaller ones. And five times that many part-timers I can call in once in awhile. I thought about it. It isn't so much that they serve...
With your head, the wall breaks first.
Bite me, faerie fruitcake.
It’s easy to do the right thing when it doesn’t cost you. Not as easy to do the right thing when your back is to the wall. Fitz
Hell's bells, Susan, you don't know what you've done. You've got to get outof here.She snorted. Like hell.I mean it, I said. You're in danger.Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not...
Hell's bells, Morty, I said. Next you'll be telling me that I didn't even meet his shade. That I deluded myself into deluding myself into deluding him into deluding me that I made the whole thing up.
It’s dark, close, cold, and intensely creepy down there. The fact that it was inhabited by things that had no love for mankind and potential radioactivity to boot didn’t do much to boost its tourism i...
Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.
It’s a rational sort of fear that puts a lawn chair down in the front of your thoughts and brings a cooler of drinks along with it.
It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.
She was also mad. Loopy as a crochet convention.
Those who had never seen a tribe of cats at war, or at least playing war games, would look upon what came next as utter chaos.
Bob, I said, louder. Are you saying it… it ate my magic?Bob got a defensive look on his face. Not all of it. I woke you up as quick as I could. Harry, don’t worry about it, you’ll heal. Sure, you migh...
We need to get out, I said. My voice sounded raw to me. Trouble coming.No, said a beautiful Sidhe baritone. Trouble is here.They appeared from behind their veils, one by one, with so much melodrama th...
If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.
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