She had never gotten it through her gentle head that there was a time for a soft paw and a time for red claws.
She is my child, Charity objected. She was, Forthill corrected her, if only for a time. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.
She studied my face for a long minute. Are you going to help my mom? It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple an...
She was a complex woman, Anastasia said. Brilliant, erratic, passionate, committed, idealistic, talented, charming, insulting, bold, incautious, arrogant—and short-sighted, yes.
She was furious that I had seen her true form, horrified and embarrassed that I had stripped her disguise away and seen the creature beneath. And she was afraid that I could take away even her mask, f...
She was wearing jeans, a black tank top, and a loose black man’s shirt
She was, Forthill corrected her, if only for a time. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.
She's going to do nothing but try to trick information out of me that I shouldn't be giving her, Mac, I said.Ungh, Mac agreed.Why did I say yes?Mac shrugged.She's pretty, I said. Smart. Sexy.Ungh.Any...
So in addition to a feisty new Black Court partner in the war dance between the Council and the Vampire Courts, I also got angry lust bunny movies stars, deadly curses, and a thoroughly embarrassing j...
So, ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless...
So, Murphy said. All we need to do is get you up to the top of the pit, and then you’re going to go one-on-four with a bunch of armed FBI agents-cum-werewolves and beat them in time to go up against t...
Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. They resound in the heart and mind, they live long after the sounds of them have died away, they echo in the heart and the soul...
Someone is out there, I said. Someone who has been manipulating the events. Playing puppet master, stirring the pot, stacking the deck - Mixing metaphors? Thomas suggested.
Something was trying to dig its way beneath the wall and into the garage, practically right underneath my butt. I felt a chill of fear, followed swiftly by anger at the thing that had added to already...
Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.
Sometimes I think that’s where most of us are, I said. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It’s that second bit that’s important.
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.
Sometimes, Hoss, he said very gently, you lose. Sometimes the darkness takes everyone. Sometimes the monster escapes to kill again another day. He shook his head and looked down. Sometimes, Hoss, the...
You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.
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