Not even his father would assert that it was practical to manage five humans. It was a well-known fact that humans became more addled than usual when running in herds.
Now that I’ve got this to keep me safe off the island, I said very quietly, what’s to stop me from having Alfred drop you into a cell right this second, and solving my problems myself? I am, Mab said....
Now, Lily said, her burning voice bitter. Now you give me a choice. The ministar flared to life in her palm again. Thus do I choose, you son of a bitch. Knight of Winter, burn and die.
Patiently, more gentle than rain, she made me clean, while I drifted, my eyes closed.
Politics is the purview of scoundrels, tyrants, and fools.
Reason. Reason was my next line of defense. Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.
Shame, child, is for those who fail to live up to the ideal of what they believe they should be.
She frowned. God, that’s sad. You want to be with her but the sex part— I shuddered. Ewg. You are far too young to say that word. The girl’s eyes shone. What word? Sex? I put my hands over my ears. Ga...
She was furious that I had seen her true form, horrified and embarrassed that I had stripped her disguise away and seen the creature beneath. And she was afraid that I could take away even her mask, f...
So, Murphy said. All we need to do is get you up to the top of the pit, and then you’re going to go one-on-four with a bunch of armed FBI agents-cum-werewolves and beat them in time to go up against t...
Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. They resound in the heart and mind, they live long after the sounds of them have died away, they echo in the heart and the soul...
Sometimes, Hoss, he said very gently, you lose. Sometimes the darkness takes everyone. Sometimes the monster escapes to kill again another day. He shook his head and looked down. Sometimes, Hoss, the...
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.
Tavi grinned. Are you with me?The plan is insane, Ehren said. YOU are insane. He looked around the inside of the tent. I'll need some pants.
That was the damnedest thing about these demonic collaborator types. Even though they didn't work out and practice, they still got to run faster than we dedicated roadsters who actually sweated and st...
That, I said, is an awfully lovely woman. I thought I should let you know, kid, in case your inexperience had blinded you to the fact.Lying, Ramirez stated, blushing. Evil.
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 desk sergeant wasn’t the usual mustached old warhorse who I had run into before, but a greying matron with steely eyes who disapproved of me and my lifestyle in a single glance,
The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight—not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable.
The important things don't need to be said.
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