This year he’d been caught up in a whirlwind called Jaenelle Angelline-as impossible to deflect as she was to stop-and he had become an accomplice in all sorts of schemes that, even in their innocence, had been thrilling.
If you believe some of the old stories, earth natives have been around in one form or another since the beginning of the world. They were the top predators then and they’re the top predators now because they change as the world changes, absorbing qualities from new species of predators without losing the essence of what they are.
The fact that it took him a decade to realize I was five foot four and plump instead of a five-foot-ten pole dancer with big tits was confusing.
They heard the clip-clop of a horse coming down the street. Barbara Ellen Debany, their pet caretaker and almost-vet, waved at them as she passed the store.
There is sickness here,” Henry said. “The bodywalker must tend to Boo Bear.” The.
For you, being around that man is like drinking a glass of poison every day,” Nadine said. “Maybe it just makes you sick, makes you weak, makes you forget who you really are and what you really want. But if you keep drinking, sooner or later, the poison will kill you.
Sometimes you need to see the same stars from a different place to help your heart settle when it’s hurting.
Arroo!” I am here. “Arroo!” I am here. I am here. I am here. Alone.
That’s the trouble with hiding in your safe place and hearing but not hearing a verbal hammering. You do hear the words, and with the right trigger, all your feelings come out as word vomit or lava – a hot projectile that can’t be controlled at all.
They will never be human. But it occurred to me that who the Others choose as a template determines if they mimic the best or the worst of what it means to be human.
Don’t absorb so much of what is human that you forget who you are. But if you must, do it for your own sake rather than for the benefit of the rest of us.
No one else has the right to decide if or when we cut our skin, but if we don’t learn to interpret the warning signs that tell us if we really need to cut, we can become the enslavers as well as the enslaved. We can become our own enemy.
A shining fortune. Humans have killed each other for a single gem.
Friends were valued. Family – pack – was valued. And the loss of a member wasn’t forgotten.
This body has been disturbed.” “I’d be disturbed too if I was suddenly dead,” I replied.
A leader needs to look beyond his own kind, needs the obedience of everyone in the Courtyard because we’re surrounded by the enemy.
When it comes to being selected for a thankless job, the man who leaves the room just before the vote is the fool who gets the job.
Easy enough to say you come from a wealthy family if no one can verify that fact.
People will use anything that comes to hand when they’re fighting for their lives – or for someone else’s.
He gently rapped her nose with his finger. “But that means you can’t go telling him our secrets.” Jaenelle looked at him, wide-eyed. “Do we have any?” “Not yet,” he grumped, “but I’ll make one up just so we do.