It had been a long time since I’d felt any desire to truly inflict pain upon another person. I tend to take the long view on dealing with irritating people—as in, I’m going to outlive whoever irritate...
I knew it would annoy her. She’d deliberately tried to provoke me, and one cannot sass me with impunity.
I don’t know what it is about Ackbar that tends to quash arguments. He has a kind of moist charisma, I guess, that no one wants to challenge. I know I don’t want to dispute him, anyway.
I am often reminded how a small fire underneath a vast sky can bind people together like nothing else. For all that we are social creatures, we are too often shoved into solitary confinement by circum...
How can one freeze and put their hands above their head at the same time? Do they teach cops to shout contradictory instructions at suspects at the academy for some sinister purpose? If I obeyed one c...
He does that a lot—go in a different direction, I mean. I sometimes think if it weren’t for Oberon, Siodhachan would be the loneliest man alive.
Few things trigger old memories so quickly as authority figures from our youth. I’m not saying those memories are necessarily good ones; they’re simply old and tend to cast us back into roles we thoug...
Failure is rarely a conscious decision and it’s often out of our control, determined by things like physics and circumstance and other people. What we can always control, however, is our reaction to f...
Dude is that was a Shakespeare quote duel, he just kicked your ass. OberonI know, but I slipped in some T.S.Eliot and he didn't even catch it. Hopefully next time I wont be recovering from an assassin...
Douglas Adams was right: There is nothing so massively useful in the universe as a towel.
Don’t mess with me, his boots said, for I am wearing the skin of the world’s deadliest serpent. Or maybe they said, Behold, I’m an arrogant ass.
Does anyone have a gun? The looks I got in response suggested that I’d asked about something profoundly distasteful, like trickle-down economics or the poetry of William Blake.
DENON IS AN ECUMENOPOLIS like Coruscant,
Canine Psychology 101. Seriously don't look at it, (the T bone steak) Look for the dastardly villain. Atticus
But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.
Being immortal did not make me invincible. Look at what the Bacchants did to that poor Orpheus fella.
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of mythology knows that it is suicidal to sexually harass a goddess. Look what Artemis did to that guy who stumbled across her bathing.
And the Morrigan, I noted, had been right about thrice-cursed trickster gods. They were torrential fucksluices spraying their happy juices on the innocent and the damned alike.
A Buddhist wishes to point out that desires are what prevent people from achieving happiness, that materialism is the cause of discord.
When a soul turns as black as Black World, these old spirits find them a comfortin’ touch of home, and if they’re called to move in, they will. That’s what a skinwalker is: a mean asshole with a meane...