I've been learning this kind of thing, Tavi replied. I can show you later. How did you steal all of that without learning how to open a lock?I stole the keys, Katai said. Obviously.
If I was writing during that window, then I imagine that the story was likely late as well and absolutely needed to be finished, so once again I met with inspiration at the corner of Late and Hurry up...
If the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of sma...
If your new boss wanted yo on the island, wouldn't she just have told you to go there? Thomas asked.Seems like, I said. Taking her orders is pretty much my job now.Molly snorted softly.Maybe I'll grow...
Imagine Smaug’s treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste.
In combat situations, your choices can be judged based only against what you knew at the time. To expect anything more of a soldier is to demand that he or she be superhuman. Which seems, to me, unrea...
In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game.
Intentions count for far less than the consequences of the actions born from them.
It gets too hot in there after a long test, he told Ehren. The air gets all squishy. It’s called humidity, Tavi, Ehren said. I haven’t slept in almost two days. It’s squishy.
It has become a custom among the Legions to promise one’s fellows that no matter what happens, they will never lie cold upon the earth.
It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that...
It took a freaking to put this together, Michael.I hefted my staff.Fortunately, I said, and took a two-handed swing at the nearest stand of slender, delicate crystal. It shattered with gratifying eas...
I’m lost. I know every step I took to get here, and I’m still lost.
I’m really not all that interesting. I like reading, staying home, going on walks with my dog—it’s like I’m already a retiree. Who wants to hear about that? Especially when I would have to scream it o...
Just keep the shirt clean, Susan muttered. No problem. I can wipe my fingers on the cummerbund. I can’t take you anywhere, Susan said.
Kincaid rounded the far corner. He was dressed in his customary black clothing again, fatigue pants, and a hunting jacket over body armor, and he had enough guns strapped to his body to outfit a terro...
Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too.It's cute, I whispered to Murphy. He has a teddy Glock.
Kord sees power as something to satisfy his desires, instead of a tool to protect and serve the people beholden to him. It’s a stupid attitude, and it will eventually get him killed—but until then it...
Lacuna peered at my shirt. Aer-O-Smith. Arrowsmith. Does the shirt belong to your weapon dealer?No.Then why do you wear the shirt of someone else's weapon dealer?
Lara [Raith] was gorgeous, brilliant, and sexier than a Swedish bikini team hiking up a mountain of money.
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