There was little sense in attempting anything like subtlety, so I donned my bottle green spectacles, focused my supernatural senses, and began a slow survey of the entire place. The energy known as ma...
There was a horrible, wrenching sound, a screech of protesting metal, and one of the screams peaked at a shivering, violent point—then dissolved into a strangled mishmash of sounds, of tearing and sna...
There was a click of high heels in the hall behind us, and a young woman appeared. She was pretty enough, I suspected, but in the tight black dress, black hose, and with her hair slicked back like tha...
There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once.
There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.
There are people out there who enjoy hurting and scaring others. They’re going to keep doing it until you make them stop.
There are no words. It was like The Lord of the Rings and All My Children made a baby with the Macho Man Randy Savage and a Whac-A-Mole machine.
There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect. A hundred million things had to happen, to all come together at the same time, for such moments to come into...
There are many things you have never done, Rowl responded. To be frightened of them is of no use to you.
The worst lies are almost always silence—or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.
The world might be vicious and treacherous and deadly, but it couldn’t kill laughter. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.
The soreness lifted out of my muscles, and my cloudy, cloggy thought processes cleared as though someone had flushed my synapses with jalapeño.
The occult community he had in mind was the usual New Age, crystal-gazing, tarot-turning, palm-reading crowd you see in any large city. Most of them were harmless, and many had at least a little abili...
The last thing I had expected to use that cleaning spell for when I had laboriously been forced to learn it was a tide of poisonous scorpion monsters, but any port in a storm.
The hardest lesson a wizard has to learn is that even with so much power, there are some things you can’t control. No matter how much you want to.
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.
The evening had obviously been moving along entirely too smoothly, I thought. Something had gone wrong.
The deepest joys and most terrible wounds were both to be had from family. The
The campus police officer folded his hands and stared at me from across the table. Coffee? What flavor is it? I asked. He was in his forties, a big, solid man with bags under his calm, wary eyes, and...
The best way to keep yourself from doing something grossly self-destructive and stupid is to avoid the temptation to do it. For example, it is far easier to fend off inappropriate amorous desires if o...