On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.
I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.
(n.) The brambling finch.
And you expect me to commute two hours each way from the Keep to the Order. I kept my voice mild. I suppose I won't be needing my job, my house, or my clothes anymore.I didn't say that. Although let m...
Andrea raised her eyebrows. Look at you, all high-speed.Yeah, you'd think I was a detective or something.Andrea held her hand out. You'll jinx it.
Next to me, Saiman smiled. We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.
I looked at him. You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.
Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.
What the hell is this? Desandra asked This is Cuddles. She's a mammoth donkey. Derek grinned, leaning on the fence. Do you have any self-respect left?Nope.
Rene, you want us to find you-don't-know-who and to retrieve his you-don't-know-what for you-won't-tell-me-whom?
You know anything about investigative work?Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.
A dense wall of greenery bordered it, ...an impenetrable barrier of oaks, evergreen shrubs, blackberry that somehow resisted the frost, and thorns. In the defense department, the witches would make Sl...
Who snitched?We have people monitoring police radio frequencies. They gave Jim a heads-up in case our security had to storm PAD offices and bust you out of there. I found out when I saw Jim walking do...
Obviously I was missing the whole picture. Any minute now he would leap up, wrench the two-inch silver alloy bars apart despite the fact that silver was toxic to shapeshifters, and heroically kick Sai...
You can’t blame me, Ascanio said. Anybody in my place would be concerned. You don’t even have a proper horse. You’re riding a mutant equine of unknown origin.Don’t disrespect my donkey
The vampire leaned forward, tapping a scimitar claw. Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?Yep.Is he carrying a moon on his pitchfork?No, it's a pie.
Aha, Andrea said. I'm going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as 'sugar woogums'.
You think he's got 'government badass' tattooed on his chest? I murmured.A faint grimace skewed Luther's mouth. And 'I'd tell you but I'd have to kill you' on his ass.
You don’t have to be there to be there.
Kate Daniels, deadly swordmaster. Fear my twitching pinkie.
I know it's late, but could you find a book for me? It's called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition by Osvintsev.Barabas sighed dramatically. Kate, you make me despair. Let's try that again from the t...