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...
Martin was alphabetizing my bookshelves. They used to kill men for sacrilege like that.
It’s another in a long list of things that Martians hardly ever think about: Almost any woman knows that almost any man is stronger than she is. Oh, men know they’re stronger, but they seldom actually...
I would beat you to crap if you didn’t already look like it,
Several bulging bookshelves which I really will organize one day.
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...
The dead don’t need justice. That’s for those of us who are left looking down at the remains.
Wow, Bob said, in a perfectly calm, matter-of-fact, conversational tone. That is incredibly unfair.
Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!
There’s a theory making the rounds now that when the meteor hit it only killed off the big stuff. That there were plenty of smaller reptiles running around, about the same size as all the mammals at t...
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...
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...
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.
If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat an...
It took several minutes, and when Butters woke up, Andi and Marci, both naked, both rather pleasant that way, were giving him CPR. They'd kept his body alive in the absence of his soul.Wow, Butters sl...
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.
There are many things you have never done, Rowl responded. To be frightened of them is of no use to you.
To whom much is given, much is required.
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