I’ll give the rat his due—he’s got balls that drag the ground when he walks.
It’s one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour? And that’s how I knew that Mort was telling the whole truth when he said he wasn’t a hero. Heroes know better than to hand the unive...
It. Wasn't. Right. No, it wasn't. But the world wasn't a fair place, was it? And I had more reason to know that than most people twice my age. The world wasn't nice, and it wasn't fair. People who did...
It was worse than murder. It was twisted, wretched perversion, as though someone had bludgeoned another person to death with a Botticelli, turned something of beauty to an act of utter destruction.
It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and th...
It seemed like people could go one of two ways: Either freak out and start rioting, or they actually act like human beings in trouble out to, and look out for one another. When LA blacked out, there h...
It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .
It isn’t that simple, Harry. No matter where you go, there you are. Look, I’ve had a long night. I know, my double said. Believe me, I know. That’s why it’s important to get some of this out now, befo...
It isn't a club, I said calmly. It's a walking stick.Six feet long.It's traditional Ozark folk art.With dents and nicks all over it.I thought about it for a second. I'm insecure?Get a blanket. He held...
It is the nature of the universe that things remain. Nothing ever disappears completely. The very sound of Creation still echoes throughout the vast darkness: The universe remembers.
It is going to work, I told her, keeping my tone confident. We’ll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us. Justine glanced at me with an arched eyebrow. The Rack? The Rack is more than just boobs, J...
It hurts! bellowed Ramirez drunkenly, flinging a last pair of bolts at a fleeing ghoul. Ow! Ow, it hurts! It hurts to be this *good*!
In my judgment, my buildings are considerably less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.
If I'd realized how rabid he was to catch me slipping, I wouldn't have added more fuel to his fire by hitting him in the mouth.Okay. I probably still would have hit him in the mouth. But I wouldn't ha...
I... briefly wondered why I kept running into repeat uses of various locations around town. This wasn't the first time I'd dealt with the bad guys choosing to reuse a location different bad guys had u...
I've got blisters and muscle cramps in places not meant for the touch of anything but a beautiful woman, Max spat back sullenly. I've bitten my tongue so many times in the past three days that I whist...
I was sitting in my lab, my hand spread open on the table, while the skull examined my palm.I'd worn a mark there for years--an unblemished patch of skin amidst all the burn scars, in the perfect shap...
I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser.
I snorted. They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations? Yeah. You can stay at home and hide if you want—and wind up like Miss Havisham, I said. Watching life through a window and ob...
I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, The only people who never hurt are dead.