The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly.
I’ve done some research for my books and talked to a few humans, and they all said humans would use guns and knives and clubs for weapons.” The Crow nodded. “A screaming woman with a teakettle just doesn’t sound sufficiently dangerous.” “But she was! They were!” Alan said. “How would a human deal with them?
She swallowed hard. “I want to try skinny-dipping.” He was so still, she wasn’t sure he was even breathing.
She kicked me off the bed!
Misery is a heart that can never be content with what it has and, by always craving something more, brings about its own destruction. And desolation is a heart so fearful of losing what it hoards that it never knows the richness that comes from being able to give.
As they walked toward the group waiting for them by the cars, Simon’s hand brushed against Meg’s. He hesitated for a step or two; then he took her hand, ready to release her if she growled an objection. But after a startled look, she smiled and curled her fingers around his.
He just hoped Meg leading the way didn’t mean all the blood prophets would do strange things to their hair.
Forgiveness doesn’t work that way. You may want to forgive, but you can’t do it yet. Forgiving someone can take weeks, months, years. Sometimes it takes a lifetime.
Dear Jean, I have seen a deer. I have petted a pony. I helped plant a garden. I have smelled earth and felt it in my hands. You watched the sun rise. These things are worth the struggle to live outside.
She was young, healthy, stronger than she’d ever been. And she was in love with him. She’d fallen in love with a man who challenged the world to take him on, sometimes with laughing, boyish enthusiasm and other times as a warrior born and trained to kill. She could do this for him. Would do this for him.
The map showed human places I’d never heard of – places that had once been great civilizations, until humans forgot the world wasn’t theirs to claim.
The courtyard kept changing, dazzling her with the flowers that bloomed between one day and the next, with the bare branches of trees that were swollen with the buds of new leaves and then fuzzed with green. Every day, she drove a familiar road through a new place.
And he wondered just how much teasing she had received – and why human males would train a female to shoot a gun and then tease her into being angry enough to shoot them. “I’m.
It was hard to be around Jean because he looked at her and saw what Meg’s future would have been if she hadn’t been brave enough to run away – and if Jean hadn’t been brave enough to stay.
I’m not cs747,” she whispered defiantly as she shifted on her cot in order to lean back against the wall. “My name is Jean.
He hadn’t observed Kowalski or Debany licking their mates’ hands.
And when one kind of animal overruns an area to the point where many kinds of animal begin to starve, it’s up to the predators to thin out the herds before there’s nothing left for anyone. That’s a simple truth whether you’re talking about deer or humans.
Maybe it was human nature to want to please the person who rejects you, who wants you to prove you deserve to be loved. Maybe.
You always believed we could survive in the outside world. I’m doing everything I can to give at least some of us a chance of not only surviving but truly living.
Whether it was true or not, it eased his heart to think there was something beyond the physical plane, something that felt benevolent toward humans, because the gods knew there wasn’t much on the physical plane that felt benevolent toward them.