You cry, you get angry, then you do something about it.
You can’t forget anything, I said, watching the words vanish into nothing. And even if you do, it always comes back to bitch-slap you in the morning.
You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee.
You all think that security and peace are born from destroying everything stronger than you? There is no safety. There is no peace but what you make, every day, every second, with every choice.
Witches married outside their species all the time, especially before the Turn. There were perfectly acceptable options: adoption, artificial insemination, borrowing your best friend’s boyfriend for a...
Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of magic-using humans who are sadistic, power hungry, don’t like Inderlanders, and see...
What was it with me and organized beatings, anyway?
What did I care what some guy in brown shorts thought? Even if he wore the uniform very well. Damn, where did they go to hire these guys? The gym?
What are you doing now? Al questioned, listing heavily as he tucked another one of those bottles under his arm and staggered for the cot half hidden behind a curtain. Seeing if your circumcision is go...
We’re going to swim it. I flipped forward a few pages. Underwater. Jenks blinked. Rache, you gotta stop using that sugar substitute.Under the water? Do you know how cold it is?
We could've done this anywhere, but I wanted you to see me, to see this, he said, gesturing at the room. I wanted you to know where I come from, what I am under the choices I make.
Was using dead-man’s-toe morally okay if the man’s relatives had knowingly sold him for parts?
Wait until the sun sets tonight, and if we are both here to see it, then my heart will break knowing you are safe and yet not to be mine. If you are gone, then my heart will break knowing that God has...
Uh, guys? Jenks said, hovering at the window. Fountain Square is on fire. What? I jumped to my feet and turned in one motion. Al rushed to the window, and we pressed our foreheads to the glass, lookin...
Two grande lattes, double espresso, Italian blend, he said to the clerk. Light on the froth, extra cinnamon. Use whole milk. Not two percent or half-and-half. Put a shot of raspberry in one for my itc...
Trent’s expression became empty, and I pulled away, hating myself.Please don’t close up, I begged, but his hands had fallen away, and I took them in my own. Talk to me.
To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them?
This is about Ku’Sox, isn’t it, I said, more of a statement than a question. He made a sighing groan, and I knew it was. Then you’ve met, he said, his thoughts clearly on the day-walking demon. Funny,...
This can’t happen. Minias said it couldn’t happen. I’m not a demon. It shouldn’t work for me! I’m not a demon! Apparently, Al said, slamming into the bars in time with his words, you’re so damn close,...
They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.