It was a loss of identity. I was a wizard. It was more than just a job, more than just a title. Wizardry was at the core of my being. It was my relationship with my magic, the way I used it, the thing...
It was business, I said, enunciating. Morelli can find pushers and pimps anywhere. A decent accountant is invaluable. I sent his bookkeeper back as a gesture of respect.
It's tough to say no to peace, to the comfort of it. All through history, people have traded wealth, children, land, and lives to buy it.But peace can't be bought, can it, chief, prime minister? The o...
It’s another in a long list of things that Martians hardly ever think about: Almost any woman knows that almost any man is stronger than she is. Oh, men know they’re stronger, but they seldom actually...
It’s irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don’t care.
It’s me. Hell’s bells, there isn’t anything that I can think of that would mimic me looking like this. Even demonic fiends from the nether regions of hell have some taste.
It’s what you do with the want that matters.
I’ll give the rat his due—he’s got balls that drag the ground when he walks.
I’m dealing with a lot of scary things, she said. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. Or you become like Martin. Shut off from everything and everyone. Tr...
I’m sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.
I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twidd...
Jealousy is common among lesser men,
Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.
Knight takes Knight, I called into the cloudy night air. Check.
Littlemouse was in danger, doubtless a prisoner, and the humans could not be trusted to handle her rescue with appropriate violence. They might be willing to leave someone alive, and Rowl was not prep...
Magic comes from life, from the energy of our world and from people, from their emotions and their will. That’s what I had always been taught.
Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.
Maybe I should have listened to Murphy. Maybe I should have stayed home and played with some nice, safe, forbidden black magic instead.
No one was standing in the shadows smoking a cigarette or looking about with a shifty-eyed gaze. I couldn't see anyone quickly hiding a bloody knife behind his back or twirling a moustache, either. Th...
She was wearing jeans, a black tank top, and a loose black man’s shirt
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