This thing was power from the Outside, and I was a grain of sand to its oncoming tide. But you know what? That grain of sand might be the last remnant of what had once been a mountain, but that which...
This is what it look like when it WORKS?
This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.
They were huge, six feet long not including the tail, and as high as my belly at their shoulders. Their entirely human eyes shone, as did their bared fangs.
They ambushed us. But . . . Bridget said. Gwen . . . the fight started when you [shot] into that officer’s face. It is hardly my fault if they did not ambush us more effectively than they did,
These evil freaks, Karrin said. They always pick the most charming places to hang out.Dark energy here, I said. Keeps people from wandering in and randomly interfering. And it feels homey.I know you h...
There’s power in the touch of another person’s hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There’s a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands.
There’s more magic in a baby’s first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don’t let anyone tell you any different. Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You ca...
There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.
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 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 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 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 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 building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault. My
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 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.
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.