Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. L...
More than anything, I wanted to crawl into a hole and pull it in after me. I wanted to be not.
Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.
Molly was a big believer in shaping the future by way of carrying anything you might need in a backpack.
Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.
Michael half-smiled. The Lord will never give you a burden bigger than your shoulders can bear, Harry. All we can do is face what comes and have faith.I gave him a sour glance. I need to get myself so...
Love you. That should have been simple enough to say. But the words stuck hard in my throat. I’d never said them to anyone I didn’t lose,
I’ve heard that nature abhors a vacuum—though if that’s true, then I can’t figure why about ninety-nine zillion percent of creation is vacuum.
But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness . . . . . . which could obviously be redeemed only by passing through the fiery, cleansing inferno of a wi...
Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.
Killing is not so easy as it seems. Most people are wired to be careful of their fellow human beings. Soldiers and cops both are specifically given training to overcome that instinct, and the criminal...
Screw up my life? He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cl...
There was a click of high heels in the hall behind us, and a young woman appeared. She was pretty enough, I suspected, but in the tight black dress, black hose, and with her hair slicked back like tha...
Life is unfair, uncaring, and painful,
Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see he...
Predator is not property, Grimm said in a calm, level tone. She is not my possession. She is my home. Her crew are not my employees. They are my family. And if you threaten to take my home and destroy...
Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?
Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain...
Look, I said. Me and the island are . . . kind of partners. Oh, right, Thomas said. He looked at Karrin and said, Harry’s a geosexual.
Mathematically, maybe, I said. But trust isn’t one of those things that lends itself well to math. Sure it does, Bob said. You trust somebody, they betray you, you get a negative value. You never trus...
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