I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.
I work in grand halls and bedchambers with wine and perfume. Not in dark alleyways with cloaks and knives. I don’t like knives. I don’t even own a knife. And my cloaks are far too expensive to risk bl...
I tried to take that as a life lesson: never underestimate the little people.
I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.
I told you long ago that being a real wizard means sacrifice. It means knowing things no one else does, he said, still growling. I told you that it meant that you might have to act upon what you knew,...
I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.
I snagged a golden paper crown from one of the bags, and idly joined it into a circle and put it on my head. Susan blinked at me and let out a brief laugh. 'I am' I intoned with an imperious narrowing...
I slip into the archaic at dramatically appropriate moments. So sue me.
I slammed the water off hard enough to make it clack, got out of the shower, dried, and started getting dressed in a fresh set of secondhand clothes.Why do you wear those? asked Lacuna. I jumped, stum...
I serve.Serve who?Heaven. Or the divine in nature. The memory of my fathers past. My fellow man. Myself. All pieces of the same thing.
I rode the dinosaur into the stream of zombies following in the Wardens’ wake and let her go to town. Sue chomped and stomped and smacked zombies fifty feet through the air with swinging blows of her...
I parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots.
I moved my feet in a vague shuffle, and remembered somewhere that when you walked, you moved them alternately. This improved our progress considerably.
I might not have any magic available to me, but that didn't make me any less of a wizard, one of the magi, the wise. That's the true power of a wizard.
I mean, when you think about it, jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane, it defies the gravity of an entire planet by exploiting a loophole with air pressure, and it flies across...
I mean, stars and stones. Two million bucks would buy you a lot of ramen.
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...
I looked from the gadget-readied spear and body armor to my slender staff of plain old wood and leather duster.My dick is better than your dick, I said.
I look around me, man . . . I’m trying to do what I’ve always done, to protect people, to keep them safe from the monsters—only I’m pretty sure I’m one of them. I can’t figure out where I could have ....
I leaned closer and gave her the look I usually save for rampaging demons and those survey people at malls.