So you really could die. Your godmother is right, you know. You are mad as a hatter. Nutty as a fruitcake. Crazy like a fox, I said.
She was, Forthill corrected her, if only for a time. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.
Righteous. The real deal. He’s honest, loyal, faithful. He lives his ideals. It gives him power.
Professional Wizard Incinerates Amateur Vampire. News at ten.
Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed. Araris
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...
Molly was a big believer in shaping the future by way of carrying anything you might need in a backpack.
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...
Make ready to repel boarders.
Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire.
MURPHY’S SATURN HAD gotten a little blown up a couple of years back,
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,
Life? I suggested. She shrugged. Desire. Loneliness. Joy. Pain. Life, I said.
Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.
Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.
Lady Aquitaine sighed. Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum.
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...
Just then, Toot buzzed back into the apartment from somewhere. He zipped in frantic, dizzying circles, starting at the point he'd last seen Lacuna, until his spiral search pattern took him to the kitc...
I’m lost. I know every step I took to get here, and I’m still lost.
I’m a wizard. That means I have power, and power and responsibility go hand in hand.