Empty knight, Harry! Morgan? Morgan? What's wrong with your head? Thomas shrugged.I don't think he did it.Morgan wouldn't cross the street to piss on you if you were on fire! Thomas growled, He's fina...
Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows.That's mostly done already,...
Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike. Most chicks do, I said. Roar of the engine and so on.Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. Pig. You really enjoy dropping al...
Did you shout 'Parkour'? Michael asked. Well, sure, I said. That was kinda Parkour-like.Michael fought to keep a smile off his face. Harry, he said, I'm almost certain one does not 'Parkour.' I belie...
I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specific...
It’s boring.Oh, I said. I rubbed at my jaw. You think I should have gone four-color?Bob stared at me for a second and said, I have nightmares about Hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to ha...
Didn't you read the owner's manual?? See here, missy. I've been an etheric engineer since before you were born. I think I know how to handle a lift crystal.Evidently you aren't bright enough to do so,...
In the void, there is no distinction of east and west.Gwen blinked slightly at that. I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean.
Lady Placida smiled. History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an argument could be made that you very much did earn the title.Many women h...
The water near me stirred and then a Sharkface rose up out of it as if on an elevator, slow, his mouth tilted up into a small smile. He stood there on the water perhaps five feet away from me. His eye...
If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you.
Vanity, thy name is vampire.
The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 451, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.
Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, You're a good man, Harry.I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on...
I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day, I say. But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life....
Birthdays are about families. Whether they're a biological family or one that's come together by choice, it's your family who gathers to celebrate the anniversary of *you*.
Are you always a smartass?'Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.
If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places th...
When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic, I said. When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.
But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness . . . . . . which could obviously be redeemed only by passing through the fiery, cleansing inferno of a wi...
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