Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth.
Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything about the finger, but it kept coming up in my thoughts. I’ve never had a finger thrown at me before. A new-and-improved addition to my creepy-hall-of-fame nightmares.
When I am with you, my control is shot. I think that’s what you’ve been feeling.
He did not enjoy the sorrow, but he would not have missed the years that he and Joseph were friends, either. Such joy was worth a little sorrow.
Chills went down my spine. I had a degree in history. When the government moves against a segment of its own population, it is bad. Nazi bad. Genocide bad.
I gave him a put-upon sigh. “I am not one of your pack members, Adam. I know this is difficult for you to fathom, so I’ll speak slowly: I don’t belong to you. I am under no obligation to tell you anything.
Silence fell, and I remembered that I was supposed to be running this. It reminded me in an odd way of the time I’d had to take over my sister’s Girl Scout troop when my mother had been sick. Fourteen preteen girls, a tableful of werewolves – there were certain monstrous similarities.
Afterward we drove out to the Hanford Reservation and ran as a wolf and coyote through the open terrain. He didn’t have Samuel’s ability to throw off all his humanity and revel in the joy of being a wild thing. Instead, he played with the same intensity he used for everything. Which meant that when I chase him, I wasn’t really sure I wanted to catch him – and when he chased me, I felt like a rabbit.
When you watch your allies commit atrocities and do nothing, who is more reprehensible? Those who rape and plunder or those who could have stopped it but do nothing?
The thought of herself as decoration was absurd.
I only knew that Adam was hurt, and I wasn’t there to make him safe.
I’ll remember your words,” he told her with returned seriousness, though he pictured Anna taking her grandmother’s rolling pin after the ghosts who haunted him, and it made him want to... smirk again.
Whether those lives are a couple of decades or a couple of centuries long, living means that we get hurt, and some of those wounds don’t heal or they don’t heal completely.
Just then Warren’s breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right?
The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom.
We’ve determined that Ms. Hauptman is a potential threat to the public safety, and we are bringing her in as a murder suspect who has supernatural powers that make her too dangerous to be incarcerated in the usual ways.
The one who made that poor shadow is long dead.” The wolf in human-seeming almost glowed with power. “They have neither the learning nor the power to make him again. They would not have risked him if they had known who was here. I have made him free, my poor brother that was.
Coyote’s Daughter,” he said. “We shall sing them to the great death.
But I’ve learned that there are always terrible things, and sometimes it is very important to grasp what joy and beauty you can, whenever you can.
Why the rolling pin and not a knife?” he asked, his voice raspy with the need for action. She looked at him for the first time since she’d seen his face on the stairs. “A knife wouldn’t even slow him down, but bones take time to heal.” He liked that. Who’d have thought he’d get turned on by a woman with a rolling pin? “All right,” he said. “All right.