Kord sees power as something to satisfy his desires, instead of a tool to protect and serve the people beholden to him. It’s a stupid attitude, and it will eventually get him killed – but until then it makes him dangerous.
Righteous. The real deal. He’s honest, loyal, faithful. He lives his ideals. It gives him power.
I am disturbed by the presence of inordinate levels of coincidence.
She is not a cookie. Neither is she a biscuit, a PopTart, Sweet TART, apple tart, or any other kind of pastry. She is my apprentice.
You’d think as long as I was gambling with my soul, I would have thought to get Mab to throw in fifty bucks an hour plus expenses.
Significance is cumulative – but not always obvious.
The Black Hole?” Grey asked, incredulously. “Nobody quotes The Black Hole, Dresden. Nobody even remembers that one.” “Hogwash. Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Perkins, and Roddy McDowall all in the same movie? Immortality.
Harry, that’s not a plan, it’s a Looney Tune.
Parts of Chicago are wondrous fair, and parts of Chicago look postapocalyptic. This block had seen the apocalypse come, grunted, and said, “Meh.
I’m getting dumber by the minute,” I confirmed. “Ask anybody.
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Because Nicodemus is a murderous murdering murderer,” I said.
The last thing I had expected to use that cleaning spell for when I had laboriously been forced to learn it was a tide of poisonous scorpion monsters, but any port in a storm.
He had to give humans credit where it was due – they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore.
I work in grand halls and bedchambers with wine and perfume. Not in dark alleyways with cloaks and knives. I don’t like knives. I don’t even own a knife. And my cloaks are far too expensive to risk bloodying.
I find it remarkable how often amateurs confuse courage with idiocy.
He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.
Honestly. He sometimes felt that humans simply had to be deliberately obtuse. What was so difficult about understanding civilized and excellently enunciated speech?
Everything’s mine, Francis,” she replied in a merry tone. “The only question is whether or not it knows it is yet.
Mab narrowed her eyes, and a little smile graced her lips. “Impudent,” she said. “It’s sweet on you.