The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold. But in my cor...
The words first. Damned near everything begins with words.I am, I breathed, and suddenly the ice was clear of my mouth.I am Harry... I panted, and the pain redoubled.And I laughed. As if some freak wh...
The vampire’s true appearance was grotesque--but it wasn’t as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a lot worse, and some of the Elder Things could rip your mind apart just...
The phone rang again almost the instant I put it down, making me jump. I peered at it. I don’t trust electronics. Anything manufactured after the forties is suspect—
The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster. Meaning what, precisely? That it reflects a great deal more of y...
The history of the human race demonstrates very convincingly that free speech is the exception to the human condition, not the rule. For millennia, those who spoke out were imprisoned or killed. Hell,...
The force of the blast did not scatter the crystals, as Bridget’s common sense told her it absolutely should have. Instead it just seemed to disperse, spreading out like a wave. Where the wave spread,...
The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight—not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable.
The door is ajar, the dashboard said. It won’t shut up, I explained to him. It gets sort of Zen after a while, Butters said brightly. Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.
The clock has superpowers. It always seems to move too slowly. Look up at it and it will tell you the time. Look up an hour and a half later, and it will tell you two minutes have gone by.
The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice...
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.
That was the entire reason to have battle commanders in the first place—so that one man could balance the advantages of logic and reason against the emotional, insane demands of close battle.
That was me on the staircase to Chicago-Over-Chicago. Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and thro...
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.
Souls, I said. I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence just this body? Is there really something more? Do I really have a soul...
Somewhere along the way, their passion had become bottled anger. The anger had fermented into bitter hatred. Then the hatred had fed upon itself, gnawing away at them over years, even decades, until o...
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...
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...
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.