You can tell a lot about a man from how he treats his dog,
You can have everything in the world, but if you don't havelove, none of it means crap, he said promptly. Love is patient.Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures.Love never f...
You aren’t explaining it very well. Maybe, I said. Or maybe you aren’t learning it very well.
Yeah, chocolate. Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It’s multipurpose equipment. One
Unfortunately, my head wasn’t getting thoughts through to my mouth. You aren’t . . . I’m not sure if I can . . . Karrin, I want this, but . . . It’s all right, she said quietly. I’m not sure, I said a...
Trite but true—you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. People change. The world changes. And sooner or later you lose people you care about. If you don’t mind some advice from someone who doesn’...
Those were long odds. Really, really long odds. Ridiculously long odds, really. When you have to measure them in astronomical units, it probably isn't a good bet.
Thomas scowled. An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo.
Thomas didn't want to go into the church because he wasn't optimistic that the Almighty and his institutions would smile on him. Like me, he favored maintaining a low profile with regards to matters t...
This is what it looks like when someone's fighting for his soul, she said. He needs his friends to believe in him. The fastest way for us to help make him into a monster is to look at him like he is o...
Think where you are, sir Knight, Nicodemus said, his mouth quirking up into a mocking smile. The Underworld is a prison for souls. Do you think yours is so great as to escape it? I am not great, Micha...
There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, What's up, boss?Evil's afoot.Well, sure, Bob said, because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise...
There are people who love you, Faith. Or who one day will. Even if you can't see them beside you, right here, right now, they're out there. But if you let the dark get into your eyes, you might never...
There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes y...
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.
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,
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...
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...
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...
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...