Why was it that the people who made idiots of themselves immediately felt it necessary to compound their sins by flipping off the people who saved them from possibly fatal mistakes?
For her he shook like an alcoholic in need of his gin, because he felt she needed to know her options, no matter how his wolf felt about losing his mate. Her knight, indeed.
Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else.
This isn’t quite chemical castration, but it will bring your life into balance,” she said, and she was off on her sales pitch as if the phrase “chemical castration” was a common concept – and something one might consider doing to one’s husband. And she looked like such a nice, normal person.
This is our territory,” I said, giving him the words he needed. “We don’t allow black magic in our territory.
Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.
They came to see Glinda the Good Witch, but after midnight, they found the Wicked Witch of the West and left quaking in fear of flying monkeys.
Like most people who own their own businesses, I work long hours that start early in the morning. So when someone calls me in the middle of the night, they’d better be dying.
Warren and his boyfriend had put on a Thanksgiving dinner for their friends who didn’t have families to go home to. Being gay meant they had a number of friends with no welcoming families. Mary.
It is one of those nondenominational churches so busy not condemning anyone that it has little power to attract a steady congregation.
He waited for Mercy’s response. He enjoyed their arguments because very few people argued with him at all.
I’ve never heard you swear before,” said Jesse, sounding a little better. “At least not like that.” “Power words. Without which mechanics the world over would be lost.
As long as I thought what he wanted me to think, he liked it when I thought for myself.
But despair was not a synonym for sorrow or regret. Despair was the loss of hope.
Trust you to bring a gun to a fistfight.
Too early to tell,” Gary said. “It doesn’t look good, but saying ‘it’s over’ before it actually is will make certain the outcome.
That swipe had more in common with a bear’s attack than a timber wolf’s. If it hit me, it could kill me with a single blow.
Your ghosts cannot have you, Charles. So exorcize them before I have to.
Action is the best cure for despair.
She’s a good person, but she is a weak person, too. She can’t take care of anyone else because she’s too busy taking care of herself.” I.