There are some people who will never understand whatloyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course, but they will never know.They will never see it from the inside. They couldn't imagine a...
There are some basic tenets that ninety-nine percent of all Wiccans follow, but at its core the faith is all about individual freedom. Wiccans believe that as long as you aren't hurting anyone else by...
Then why, Michael asked are you expecting perfection out of yourself? Do you really think you're that much better than the rest of us? That your powers make you a higher quality of human being? That y...
The world always thinks that the destruction of a physical vessel is victory, he said quietly. But the Savior was more than merely cells and tissue and chemical compounds—and Fidelacchius is more than...
The old man’s staff was shorter and thicker than mine, but the carved sigils and formulae on it were noticeably similar, and the texture and color of the wood was identical.
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 moon rose in silver splendor into an October sky strewn with pale clouds and brilliant stars. The clouds churned, a white-foam sea, and the moon was a vast, graceful clipper ship, its sails full o...
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 demon trapped in the summoning circle screamed, slamming its crablike pincers against the unseen barrier, hurling its chitinous shoulders from side to side in an effort to escape the confinement....
The dead don’t need justice. That’s for those of us who are left looking down at the remains.
The curve of her smile promised things that were probably illegal, and bad for you, and would carry warnings from the Surgeon General, but that you’d still want to do over and over again.
The belts do more than make you fuzzy, Denton. They change the way you think. The way you act.
The Winter inside me was torment and agony—but at least when I was immersed in it, I couldn’t feel.
The Legions have a long tradition, boys. You march hard and fast and show up in places where no one expects you—and then you go to work. He grinned. And you do it all carrying a hundred pounds of gear...
The Denarians want to disrupt civilization, and with the Archive under their control, they could do it. Maybe they’d use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they’d crash the world economy. M...
That’s the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse.
That’s the difficult part of being mortal. Of having choice. Much is hidden from you.
That you are young, the cat said. And less wise than one who is old. I am wiser than you, and I say you should go. It is obvious. You should trust a wiser head than your own. You aren’t any older than...
That was silly, to think that they would not love each other—but sometimes humans are slow to figure things out, because they are heart-stupid. You are, too. That’s okay. Just get a dog. Dogs can teac...
That things will unfold as they are meant to, Forthill said. That even in the face of an immediate ugliness, the greater picture will resolve into something all the more beautiful.