That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington’s been doing it like that for decades.
Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard! he shouted, pointing at Doroga. He followed me home! C...
Surely, that is merely a colorful euphemism, rather than a statement of desire.
Suppose I tell you to fuck off.I will no longer be in a playful mood, it purred. I will come for you. I will kill your blood, your friends, your beasts. I will kill the flowers in your home and the tr...
Strategy and tactics, discipline and protocol are necessary, but they’re just the beginning. You have to know people, Byron. How they think, what motivates them. Watch. Learn.
Speed of lightning! Roar of thunder! Fighting all who rob or plunder! Underdog!
Sometimes the things that are good for you, in the long run, hurt for a little while when you first get to them.
Something was trying to dig its way beneath the wall and into the garage, practically right underneath my butt. I felt a chill of fear, followed swiftly by anger at the thing that had added to already...
So really, it was just as well that Godmother had caught up to me, in spite of my best efforts to avoid her. I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk t...
So once again, let me be perfectly clear. If anything happens to Murphy and I even *think* you had a hand in it, fuck right and wrong. If you touch her, I'm declaring war on you.
So many terrible things are done for love, Mab’s voice said. For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, a...
So in addition to a feisty new Black Court partner in the war dance between the Council and the Vampire Courts, I also got angry lust bunny movies stars, deadly curses, and a thoroughly embarrassing j...
She's going to do nothing but try to trick information out of me that I shouldn't be giving her, Mac, I said.Ungh, Mac agreed.Why did I say yes?Mac shrugged.She's pretty, I said. Smart. Sexy.Ungh.Any...
She put her hands on his face, and whispered Death is nothing to me, chala. Not if we are together. Death is not to be feared. She leaned forward and kissed his mouth, very gently. Then she rested her...
She is my child, Charity objected. She was, Forthill corrected her, if only for a time. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.
Sanya, I said. Who did I get cast as? Sam, Sanya said. I blinked at him. Not . . . Oh, for crying out loud, it was perfectly obvious who I should have been. Sanya shrugged. It was no contest. They gav...
Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained.
Rip her dress off! Bob shouted. Bob the Skull takes paperback romances very seriously. The next page turned so quickly that he tore the paper a little. Bob is even harder on books than I am.That’s wha...
Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get d...
Now hear me, brother, I said gently. Cease your attempts to harm my humans. Depart this city. Do not come back. Or else? he asked. There is nothing else, I replied calmly. You will do these things. Th...