When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whol...
If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody. Of course, Raphael might like that...
If the lot of you survives, Curran will flay the skin off your backs, Doolittle said.That's what I always love about you, Doctor. Raphael grinned. You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers an...
Andrea turned her back to Desandra and rolled her eyes. Raphael grimaced. They both looked scandalized. Dear God, what could she have said to scandalize a bouda...No, really! Desandra nodded. Okay, so...
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, writes it, builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it,
How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered...
Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.
As he passed me, he leaned to Curran and handed him a paper fan folded from some sort of flyer.Curran looked at the fan. What?An emergency precaution, Your Majesty. In case the lady faints.Curran just...
When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't g...
I know human nature. We might sacrifice a few, because we are stupid and hardwired for group survival. But we would never die in the thousands because a god wished it. Those kinds of numbers require m...
You’re touching me, I chided him. He caressed my back, sliding his hand down, hitting every sensitive point I hadn’t even known I had. No, this is touching you. That was just accidental contact. Oh? G...
We need a bigger gun.We need a shower, Raphael said.Gun first. Shower later.Ten minutes later I walked into the Order’s office. A group of knights standing in the hallway turned at my approach: Mauro,...
I promise to keep my hands, tongue, and other body parts to myself. You risk your life by staying home. It's late and we're both too wiped out to go climbing into the People's lair tonight. What do yo...