She was wearing jeans, a black tank top, and a loose black man’s shirt
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...
Shame, child, is for those who fail to live up to the ideal of what they believe they should be.
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.
Patiently, more gentle than rain, she made me clean, while I drifted, my eyes closed.
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.
My own aches and bruises and cuts and wounds pained me, but it was an honest, stretchy pain, something that was healing.
My mouth kept running without checking in with my brain. My heart maybe, but not my brain.
My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him. By contrast, I could barely talk to a woman, at least about anyt...
Mister didn't come with me on cases, being above such trivial matters, but he found me pleasant company when I was at home and not moving around too much, except when he didn't, in which case he went...
Mister Hendricks [was] manning a rotating-barreled minigun fixed to the deck of the helicopter--completely illegally, of course.But then, I suppose that's really one major advantage to working with cr...
Mister Dresden, he said. And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector. I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago, I said at once. Elvii? Marcone i...
Michael titled his head. But . . . Uriel, if I were to misuse it . . . I would Fall, Uriel said quietly. I choked on the air. Holy crap. The last time an archangel Fell, I’m pretty sure there were ext...
Martin was alphabetizing my bookshelves. They used to kill men for sacrilege like that.
Magic comes from life, from the energy of our world and from people, from their emotions and their will. That’s what I had always been taught.
Mac folded his arms on the bar and looked at me intently and said, in a resonant baritone, You've got to be very careful, Harry.I looked at him, shocked. He'd...used grammar.
Littlemouse was in danger, doubtless a prisoner, and the humans could not be trusted to handle her rescue with appropriate violence. They might be willing to leave someone alive, and Rowl was not prep...
Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.
Lean forward a little, my lord, Toot said instantly, and shouted, Hey, Kernal Purpleweed! Come watch the Za Winter Lord Knight's back!I fought not to smile. No, that's a metaphor, I said.Toot frowned...
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found...That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in...