I like her, Sanya rumbled in his deep, half-swallowed accent. She is so tiny and fierce. I don’t suppose she knows how to— Sanya, Michael said, his voice very firm. We have talked about this. The dark...
I leaned into Karrin a little and said, next to her ear, You ready for this?Only a lunatic is ready for this, she said. I could hear her smile as she spoke. Then she turned her head and, before I coul...
I kind of felt bad for them. Getting punched out by a dame was not going to pad their goon résumés.
I kicked the door open, staff held ready to fight, and shouted, And I'm all outta bubble gum!
I hurled my fear and my loneliness, my love and my respect, my rage and my pain. I made of my thoughts a hammer, infused with the fires of creation and tempered in the icy power of the darkest guardia...
I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness. Then a young woman's voice said, in a passable British accent, The Little People are easily st...
I have, in general, not had fun during my service as a Warden of the White Council. I have taken no enjoyment whatsoever in becoming a soldier in the war with the Vampire Courts. Doing battle with the...
I have fought long and hard against horrors even you would respect. I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I’m not going to start yielding now.
I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I’m not going to start yielding now.
I hadn’t realized, until I actually heard his voice, how much I’d missed the demented little perv.
I had this teacher who kept telling me that if I was ever in a fair fight, someone had made a mistake, she said
I followed him through the halls of the enormous church until we got to the staff's kitchen. He went to the fridge, opened it, and came out with a bottle of bourbon. He poured some into a coffee cup,...
I feel stupid. Good, Michael said. It’s good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.
I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish.
I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.
I didn’t look up, occupied as I was with brooding, a famous pastime of wizards everywhere.
I didn’t follow her right away. She didn’t look back. Stab. Twist. God, I love being a wizard.
I dealt with the White Council my whole life, so I’m used to being treated like a mushroom— Eh? Ascher asked. Kept in the dark and fed bullshit, Binder reported calmly. Ah.
I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.
I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.