Strength is the first virtue, Alera said. That is not a pleasant fact. Its distastefulness does not alter the truth that without strength to protect them, all other virtues are ephemeral, ultimately m...
That was me on the staircase to Chicago-Over-Chicago. Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and thro...
The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice...
The Winter inside me was torment and agony—but at least when I was immersed in it, I couldn’t feel.
The belts do more than make you fuzzy, Denton. They change the way you think. The way you act.
The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault. My
The clock has superpowers. It always seems to move too slowly. Look up at it and it will tell you the time. Look up an hour and a half later, and it will tell you two minutes have gone by.
The deepest joys and most terrible wounds were both to be had from family. The
The door is ajar, the dashboard said. It won’t shut up, I explained to him. It gets sort of Zen after a while, Butters said brightly. Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.
The history of the human race demonstrates very convincingly that free speech is the exception to the human condition, not the rule. For millennia, those who spoke out were imprisoned or killed. Hell,...
The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.
The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner.
The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the hell.I DON'T BELIEVE IN FAERIES!
The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster. Meaning what, precisely? That it reflects a great deal more of y...
The only people who never hurt are dead.
The phone rang again almost the instant I put it down, making me jump. I peered at it. I don’t trust electronics. Anything manufactured after the forties is suspect—
The soreness lifted out of my muscles, and my cloudy, cloggy thought processes cleared as though someone had flushed my synapses with jalapeño.
The vampire’s true appearance was grotesque--but it wasn’t as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a lot worse, and some of the Elder Things could rip your mind apart just...
The words first. Damned near everything begins with words.I am, I breathed, and suddenly the ice was clear of my mouth.I am Harry... I panted, and the pain redoubled.And I laughed. As if some freak wh...
Then she turned her head and, before I could react, planted a kiss right on my mouth. I almost fell off the Harley. She drew her head back, flashed me a wicked little smile, and said, For luck. Star W...
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