After that, my whole body felt deliciously warm, monstrously tired, and the sleep that had evaded me seemed, finally, to be within reach.It got dark.It got quiet.And I realized that I was all by mysel...
After all, Bob himself was, essentially, a spiritual creature created from the energy of thought. The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level--...
Aaaaaaaagh! I screamed, emerging from the wards and onto Murphy’s front lawn, chock-full of new insight as to why ghosts are always moaning or wailing when they come popping out of somebody’s wall or...
A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. Get more away. I've been fighting this computer all day long. I swear, if you blow out my hard drive again, I'm ta...
A duel would mean a fair fight, and I hate fair fights. In the words of a murderous Faerie Queen, they’re too easy to lose. Of
She bowed just low enough to draw the young man's [Daniel Carpenter] eyes to her décolletage. He flushed and looked away sternly. After a second.Tough to blame the kid. I've been a young man. Boobs ar...
You can’t go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn’t easy to be sane, smart, and...
What good is magic if it cannot be used to make a delicious cup of a fine beverage?
The border’s been waggling back and forth like a hooker at a dockworker’s convention.
The Female Once-Over--a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides h...
See something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them, I told him. It’s probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.
He doesn’t believe in using surgically altered . . . uh . . . My face heated up. Murphy was probably my best friend, but she was still a girl, and a gentleman just doesn’t say some words in front of a...
Except that Morgan’s face was too pinched and thin to pull off the look. Your point being? I did my best to keep from looking nervous or impressed. Truth be told, I was both. Morgan was my Warden, ass...
You're just going to stand there? I asked.Uriel folded his arms and tapped his chin with one fingertip. Mmmm. It does seem that perhaps she deserves some form of aid. Perhaps if I'd had the presence o...
You will probably find, in life, that successes and victories tend to overshadow the risks you took, while failure will amplify how idiotic they were.
You need some time in a quiet place, boss. Unkink your brain’s do. Mellow your vibe. Thank you, Doctor Fraud,
You may never know a night’s peace again. Knowledge is power, young man. Power to do good and power to do harm. Some knowledge can hurt. Some can kill.
You know he’s not going to honor the truce, I said quietly. He’s going to try to take me out somewhere along the line. He’s going to betray me. Of course, she said. I expect superior, more creative tr...
You destroy buildings, fight monsters openly in the streets of the city, work with the police, show up in newspapers, advertise in the phone book, and ride zombie dinosaurs down Michigan Avenue, and t...
You aren’t angry, he said. That she’s hurt. Like hell I’m not, I said. It’s coming. After we take care of her. When it’s time. Michael grunted. You aren’t more angry than you would be if it was me. Or...