On those rare occasions when he is arrested, charges are quietly dropped.
Atropos was the goddess who cut the thread of life.
I want them dead.
Do you know the fable titled ‘The Vain Wolf and the Lion’?
In time, wonder might lead to that more elevated feeling that is awe, the yielding of the mind to the reverence of what is supremely grand and true.
In the past ten years there had been truly amazing advances in those areas of research – psychopharmacology, biochemistry, psychosurgery, clinical psychology – that directly and indirectly contributed to the less reputable but nonetheless hotly pursued science of mind control.
A mere billionaire is a nobody among the princes of high tech. In spite of their pretensions to social equality, many of this crowd are among the most class-conscious elite bigots the world has ever known.
He has no master here. He is an independent agent and pursues his own agenda.
I’d fled from Death to this haven, but of course in running from him, I had only run into his arms.
He is the CEO of Refine, a multibillion-dollar division of a mega-valued conglomerate.
Just say perplexed or bewildered, even confused, but never nonplussed.
Ringrock is not a prison.
The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.
Most likely, she’s witnessing not an escape, but a penetration.
Parker’s relationship with Lupo and Hamal is initially one of buyer to sellers.
He said, “Busy is happy,” and I suspected that his mother had counseled him about the satisfaction and the peace that come from giving to the world whatever you are capable of contributing.
She brought the brandy bottle and a glass to the table. She had read books in which characters had sat down with a fifth of booze and a heavy load of despair, determined to use the former to wash away the latter. Sometimes it worked for them, so maybe it would work for her. If brandy could improve her state of mind even marginally, she was prepared to drink the whole damn bottle.
Consumed or purified by fire.
Quinn Quicksilver.
He is a customer for their drugs. Soon they learn that Parker can acquire certain exotic military-quality weapons.