Matson threw up his skinny arms to protect himself as something huge and quick shoved its way between the bars, like a big dog going through a rotten picket fence, and engulfed him.
Magic is a lot like language: it’s all about stringing things together,linking one thing with another, one idea with another.
Like I said, magic comes from life, and especially from emotions. They're a source of the same intangible energy that everyone can feel when an autumn moon rises and fills you with a sudden sense of b...
Life’s easier when you can write off others as monsters, as demons, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared. The thing is, you can’t do that without becoming them, just a little.
Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.
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...
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...
It’s irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don’t care.
It was like a fire in my thoughts, my concentration, burning ever more brightly, more pure, refining my anger, my hate, into something steel-hard, steel-sharp. I could feel it burning, and reached for...
It made me feel better. Mouse might not have been thesmartest creature on earth, but he was steady, kind, loyal, andwas possessed of the uncanny wisdom of beasts for knowingwhom to trust. I might not...
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...
Intentions count for far less than the consequences of the actions born from them.
Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!
If you’re ever in a spooky situation and have a strong instinct that you are being watched, hunted, or followed, I advise you not to treat those instincts lightly.
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...
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...
Id me didn't have to be concerned with long-term consequences. He was my instinctive, primitive self, driven by my most primal impulses. I wondered, briefly, if 'id' and 'idiot' came from the same roo...
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.
I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity.
I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.