Her look dared me to make some kind of chivalrous commentary. I didn’t, and she didn’t break my nose, by way of fair exchange.
It—I was pretty much equipped, by experience and inclination, for mayhem.
Life isn’t simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you’re in the thick of things, sometimes it’s hard for us to tell. You didn’t do what you did for your own benefi...
Purple is my favorite color that isn’t black, and
Several bulging bookshelves which I really will organize one day.
She had that kind of matronly plumpness that comes with age, pasta, and a comfortable life.
Staff cutbacks that meant nurses were working their asses off to cover the basics and, as a result, were barely maintaining a white-knuckled grip on civility. Bottom line: she hated hospitals for the...
That growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you’re just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.
The blow made her see stars. There was no time for astronomy in ground fighting, she thought,
What happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money.
When they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.
Wildcat. I found him in a Dumpster one day when he was a kitten and he promptly adopted me. Despite my struggles, Mister had been an understanding soul, and I eventually came to realize that I was a p...
Wizards don’t use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.
She bowed just low enough to draw the young man's [Daniel Carpenter] eyes to her décolletage. He flushed and looked away sternly. After a second.Tough to blame the kid. I've been a young man. Boobs ar...
As nervous as a bird in a coal mine.
If you go exploring, you might find something that could hurt you.If one doesn't , one is not truly exploring
The Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.
You look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.
A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me in a while if I don’t deal with it, oh, and the island’s blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lo...
A good man, almost by definition, would seriously question any decisions he made that led to such terrible consequences for others. Especially if those others trusted him.
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