Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters.Run away.
I parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots.
You have enemies enough without tearing open your own wounds over things you could not have prevented.
The Faerie Courts are duking it out up there, and it’s probably going to be very hairy. The Summer Lady is our baddie, and the Winter Knight is her bitch. She has a magic hankie. She’s going to use it...
I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.
Just like old times, I wheezed. Yeah, just like old times, Elaine. You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous . . . And then a thought hit me. Just like old times. . . . deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If...
One rather thick volume was titled Means of Execution Through the Ages, and was placed with an elegant balance of nonchalance and availability at the eye level of anyone entering the room. As threats...
One grip shy of a steering column? Grimm suggested. Ten degrees short of a compass? Aviating without goggles?
These creatures have destroyed our lands. Murdered our people. Isana lifted her chin. Pay them for it.When Antillus Raucus looked up, his eyes were hard, cold, and clear. Watch me.
Karrin smiled faintly and shook her head. He always said you knew ghosts. You're sure it was really him?Mort eyed her. Me and everyone else, yeah.Karrin scowled and stared into the middle distance.Mor...
Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.
One day, I told myself, one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool. I
You’ve got it backward, Harry, he said. You are a soul. You have a body.
One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight - Gard
Once you begin to mass-manufacture anything, by the very nature of the process, you lose the sense of personal attachment you might have to something made by hand.
You’re unconscious, moron, my double said to me. We can finally talk to one another.
Olympian, I should think, from the colors and the fur trim of his coat, Master Ferus put in. Olympian and, it would seem, possessed of a fury. Which is funny, if you know enough history.
The Queen smiled with the tiniest twitch of a single corner of her mouth. Why should I do that?Because I'm coming, Octavian's image said, very quietly, for you.
You humans have the potential to be the most wonderful beings there are—if you can get past all these enormous stupid spots you seem to have in your hearts. It’s not your fault. You just don’t know ho...
The worst lies are almost always silence—or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.
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