Slicker than snot on a door handle.
I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, dreading a life of servitude under the name of marriage...
Pierce jerked his hand from Trent and pushed himself straight. Kalamack Industries, he said, expression twisted as he wiped his hand on his pants. I knew your father.I do not freaking believe this, I...
I like attics. They're as peaceful as God's church. Alone and apart, but a body can hear everything. The past stacked up like forgotten memories, but with a small effort, brought down and enjoyed agai...
That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisio...
My kids know you can make it if you take risks and work hard. That we can work in the system you lunkers set up. That's all a parent really needs to give his child. That, and how to love someone with...
Why aren't you afraid of me?I've seen my death, and you're not it.
I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.
There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.
Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. She's a sweet girl, but poor.Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. Being poor is not an indicatio...
You've never been the safe, nice girl next door, despite everything you do to be that person. That's why you joined the I.S., and even there you didn't fit in, because, knowing it or not, you were a p...
I smiled at David, even as I shoved at him to give me more room. I hadn't been pleased last night when he'd insisted I wasn't to be left alone, but you don't argue with two hundered pounds of wolf--yo...
You bet your Grannie's Panties I will.
Now you’re going to get it, I said, guessing Al was coming when the ones in the back scattered. You should have been nice.With a weird cry, the closest surface demon fell back, but it was too late. A...
Teaching an adolescent pixy and teenage gargoyle how to make explosives might not be such a good idea. But hell, he’d learned when he was five.
Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.
The blood drained from my face, and I pulled out of his reach. No. If Ford put me under, I had no idea what might come out.
I may be a pawn, but I’ve been to the other side and survived the trip back and I can move like a queen. Don’t piss me off.
Demons are coming, Vivian. They're finding ways around the rules. The genetic checks and balances have been broken, and the demon genome is going to repair itself. We're going to become who we were. M...
Come work for me, and I’ll tell you.My eyes went to his. You are a thief, a cheat, a murderer, and a not-nice man, I said calmly. I don’t like you.He shrugged, the motion making him look utterly harml...