Yes, Aquitaine said quietly. The Legions will pay a terrible price so that the residents of Riva can flee. But if they do not, the city will fall into chaos, and the civilians will die. He shook his h...
Wow, Bob said, in a perfectly calm, matter-of-fact, conversational tone. That is incredibly unfair.
Why? I demanded of her. Why bring the child into this? Why not just come straight to me?Does it matter at this point?I shrugged. Not really. I'm curious.She stared at me for a moment and then she smil...
Why do you wear those? asked Lacuna.I jumped, stumbled, and shouted half of a word to a spell, but since I was only halfway done putting on my underwear, I mostly just fell on my naked ass.'' Gah! I s...
Who am I? What have I done with my life? Who can I trust?That last one is a doozy. It haunts you in moments of doubt. Sometimes when you wake up at night, you wonder if you've put your faith in the ri...
Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy.
When the Almighty speaks to men, He always does it in voices they can understand,
Whatever had killed him, it hadn't been human. His face was gone, simply torn away. Something had ripped his lips off. I could see his bloodstained teeth. His nose had been torn all the way up one sid...
What was the point in all the fighting with gauntlets if they were only going to stop fighting the moment the outnumbered fools decided the fight was over? Rowl flicked his tail in exasperation. Human...
What matters is the success or failure of your will. Your will to overcome human weakness. Your will to work. To learn. I will have no shirkers here, boy.
What is teaching but the art of planting and nurturing power? Lea replied. Mortals prattle on about lonely impulses of delight and the gift of knowledge, and think that teaching is a trade like metals...
What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what’s coming around. He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. And sometimes you are what’s coming around. You see what I mean?
What do you do to make up for failing everyone in your life? How do you make it right? How do you apologize for hideous things you never intended to happen?
Well. You've got me cornered, don't you? I'm at your mercy. Her lips quirked. She took a drag of her cigarette. And I like a man who just won't stop.
We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.
We just have to have faith. The good Lord wouldn’t give us more than we could bear.
Uriel smiled. Collin, like the others, is wit me because he is not yet prepared to face what comes next. When he is, he'll take that step. For now, he is not.When you say , what do you mean, exactly?T...
Unfortunately, my head wasn’t getting thoughts through to my mouth. You aren’t . . . I’m not sure if I can . . . Karrin, I want this, but . . . It’s all right, she said quietly. I’m not sure, I said a...
Uh, I said, feeling somewhat off balance. What do I think of gay guys? Yes. Boink and let boink, more or less.
Tragically misunderstood? Hah! I understand you, buddy. You’re such a pompous, arrogant, pretentious, chauvinistic, hopelessly old-fashioned, stupidly pigheaded