She held up her hand, palm up – another one of those gestures, their meanings forgotten by everyone except for long-term wackjobs like Dresden.
The council is old school. Really, really old school.
It’s what you do with the want that matters.
Do you want to be my dad?
Death is just one more Path. One you’ll come to in time.
Cell phones were like those security guys in red shirts on old Star Trek: as soon as something started happening, they were always the first to go.
My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.
I like her,” Sanya rumbled in his deep, half-swallowed accent. “She is so tiny and fierce. I don’t suppose she knows how to – ” “Sanya,” Michael said, his voice very firm. “We have talked about this.” The dark-skinned Russian sighed and shrugged. “It could not hurt to ask.” “Sanya.” He lifted both hands in a gesture of surrender, grinning, and fell silent. The.
He had no frame of reference, and couldn’t read – most faeries were studiously averse to print.
Death is certain, Aleran – for all of us. That being true, we know that all of those we love will either be torn away from us, or we will be torn away from them. It follows as naturally as the night after sundown.
We’re a civilized society, are we not?” Esterbrook blinked. “Since when, miss? We’re a democracy.
When you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.
The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold.
Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic, and they don’t need a special effects budget to do it, either.
To the best of my knowledge, sir,” Benedict said in an apologetic tone, “no one has ever been able to tell my dear cousin anything. At all.
Ah, yes, a savage. Of the famous Chromotonsorial Cahokian Goth tribe.
I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.
You need to know where to go,” Sanya said. “Yes.” “And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance.” “Yes,” I said. The.
No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you.
See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.