The water near me stirred and then a Sharkface rose up out of it as if on an elevator, slow, his mouth tilted up into a small smile. He stood there on the water perhaps five feet away from me. His eye...
Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
Mortimer Lindquist seemed to have finally given in to the inevitable. I'd seen him with a bad toupee, and with an even worse comb-over, but this was the first time I'd seen him sporting a full-on Char...
You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, BOO!
Because I know my daughter, she said. And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure that she pursues any given course of action is for me to forbid her to do so.
You already beat yourself up for enough things that aren't your fault. People who care don't want to add to that. He paused, and then added gently, But you assumed it was about you. I finished the bee...
If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it.
Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him. Thwart? Sarissa asked.Thwart. I said. To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy p...
We're all so damned fragile.
I love you, Journeyman said to the lift crystal. He kissed it and spread his arms across its surface in an embrace. I love you, you big, beautiful beast. I want you to marry me. I want you to bear my...
In the void, there is no distinction of east and west.Gwen blinked slightly at that. I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean.
Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They...
That's arrogance, Harry. he said, gently. On a level so deep, you don't even realize it exists. And do you know why it's there? No? I asked. He smiled again. Because you have set a higher standard fo...
I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.
Never again. Tell them that. Never again. Or Hell itself will not hide you from me.
I leaned my head back on the couch and closed my eyes. I'm not sure what to do next. How are you as a sounding board?I can look interested and nod at appropriate moments, he said.Good enough, I said.
BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.
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