I looked past him to the snack table. It was indeed piled with doughnuts of a number of varieties. Some of them even had sprinkles. My mouth started a quick impression of a minor tributary. But they w...
Guru in the Ukraine,
I love you. Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmother's spell frayed as though the words had been an open flame, I don't know. I haven't found any explanation for it. There aren't any...
Staff cutbacks that meant nurses were working their asses off to cover the basics and, as a result, were barely maintaining a white-knuckled grip on civility. Bottom line: she hated hospitals for the...
There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.
The government isn't the mob, Harry.Aren't they? I asked. Pay them money every year to protect you, and God help you if you don't.
Of course cats [can see ghosts]. As far as I can tell, all cats. But they aren't terribly impressed with the fact that we're dead and still present.
You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!
I told you, Molly said, never looking toward me. It's in the past. Leave it there.You listening to my head, kiddo?Her mouth twitched. Only when I want to hear the roar of the ocean.
That's Doctor Smart-ass. I didn't spend eight years in insult college to be called Mister.
I turned to Grey again. The point is, killing someone is almost never the smart move, long term. Sometimes it’s got to be done if you want to survive—but the more you do it, the more you risk creating...
I used to think I loved it. But now I realize that it’s just dependency.
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...
This block had seen the apocalypse come, grunted, and said, Meh.
I would beat you to crap if you didn’t already look like it,
I'm afraid you made a serious mistake today.Sire?You proved yourself extraordinarily capable, Captain, Albion said. I can hardly let something like that go unremarked.I don't understand, sir, Grimm sa...
Truth does not become untruth simply because its existence upsets the scion of a High House.
The soreness lifted out of my muscles, and my cloudy, cloggy thought processes cleared as though someone had flushed my synapses with jalapeño.
Wow, Bob said, in a perfectly calm, matter-of-fact, conversational tone. That is incredibly unfair.
If I'd realized how rabid he was to catch me slipping, I wouldn't have added more fuel to his fire by hitting him in the mouth.Okay. I probably still would have hit him in the mouth. But I wouldn't ha...
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