Rose pictured him standing at the boundary of the Ogletree house in that enormous fur cape, with a giant sword sticking over his shoulder, roaring at the top of his lungs and then being upset...

Minutes passed by. A little blue butterfly landed on my nose. I blinked at it and it fluttered to my ear. A big yellow butterfly gently floated over and landed on my paw. Soon a...

You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn’t an option.

Man can’t handle the chaos. Oh, you can understand it in the abstract, as long as you don’t think about it too hard. But at the core of it, whenever humans come against chaos, they...

I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

Mmmmm, yummy chocolate” after waking up from hunger pains and finding a Hershey bar in an empty refrigerator.

Some men were handsome. Some were powerful. Curran was…dangerous.

The vampire leaned forward, tapping a scimitar claw. “Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?””Yep.””Is he carrying a moon on his pitchfork?””No, it’s a pie.

Now remember, Kate.” Barabas leaned over to me, grinning. “You are the Consort. Be the Consort.” He stretched “be” into a three-syllable word. “Think like a-“”Open the door or I’ll punch you right in the...

I have a serious question.””I will give a serious answer.””Can a god be killed?”The humor drained from Roman’s face. “Well, that depends on if you’re a pantheist or a Marxist.””What’s the difference?””The first believes that...

Did he just rip out the engine?” I asked.”Yes”, Saiman said. “And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it.”Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be...

Jack didn’t fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn’t comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was...

It seems that we had…not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

Psych.”And just like that, he was out the door and gone.Oh boy.

I wouldn’t be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very impressive herd.

They really kicked me out?” “Refunded the tuition and everything.” Julie blinked a couple of times coming to grips with this tidbit. “So what happens now?” “I expect you’ll be a bum. Homeless and jobless...

In there?’She nodded.’You want us to go into the tortoise?’Another nod.’It’s alive.’Another nod.

If I lost him here, to this idiotic fight, after I fought and guarded him for two weeks, after I cried and thought he was dying, I would find him in the afterlife and I...

I mean to have you, Rose, you and all of your thorns. I’m a disagreeable and stubborn bastard, but I’m not a fool. You didn’t really expect me to pass you up, did you?

It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before...

I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. “One last thing, Your Majesty. I’d like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out ‘The Leader...

If she died as a result of this journey, it wouldn’t be because of slavers. It would be because Richard’s inability to communicate would give her a heart attack.

You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you’re telling me ‘no’. You’d pull on Death’s whiskers if you...

Tiny gold sparks flared in his irises. “You’re in my rooms in my bathtub naked and you’re still mouthing off.”Did he expect anything different? “Hey, I didn’t kick or punch you in the throat. I...

You think he’s got ‘government badass’ tattooed on his chest?” I murmured.A faint grimace skewed Luther’s mouth. “And ‘I’d tell you but I’d have to kill you’ on his ass.

Juke glanced into her cup before tipping it down to her mouth. “Screw you!””Now come on, sugar, you know I don’t swing that way.””Whatever!

What happened?””You fell.””Really? What did I fall into?””My fist.””That explains the headache.

Mahon’s wife stared down at us. Her hands went to her hips. “Which one of you idiots wants to explain to me what the hell is going on?”With great effort I raised my arm and...

He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. “You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You trust me, don’t you, Mouse?””Nope!””Ahhh, I’m hurt. Nobody likes me.

Amy,” Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. “I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one.

Did those nice church ladies come by again?” He nodded. “I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a...

Put your badass faces on and follow me.

And?” “You’re the exact opposite of him. You lack the capacity to love, so you want to smother mine as well.

Are you happy?When I can get out of my own way.And the rest of the time?The rest of the time I’m in a state of silent panic. I’m afraid it will end. I’ll lose him....

Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded.

Don’t ask.

Kaldar almost never stops and thinks about the consequences of his actions. Something is fun or not fun, and my brother’s fun often lands him in interesting places such as jails or castles belonging to...

Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.

Here, you can touch it, since you’re my best friend.

So crosses don’t do anything against your kind?” Sean asked.”No,” Arland said. “There is no mystical force repelling us.””Then why?””We’re forbidden to kill a creature in a moment of prayer or invocation of their deity....

Were you worried about me?””No, I’m ranting for fun, because I’m a disagreeable bitch!

I know you’ll tell me to fuck off, but I think Curran loves you. Truly loves you. And I think you love him, Kate. That’s rare. Think about it–if he really stood you up, why...

What is wrong with you?Many, many things.

Damn boudas. I tell him he’s under siege and he goes to take a nap.

The kid was so handsome, he almost looked unreal.

Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot.

It’s awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?

No more tubs for me.” I jumped off the bed and pulled on a pair of Pack sweats. “They make me lose all sense.”Curran sprawled on the bed with a big self-satisfied smile. “Want to...

No matter what happens, you will always be Pack. Because you have that loyalty and restraint. Not human, not whatever, but Kate. Unique and different, but not separate.

You know,” she said, stirring her tea, “the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with him. And tell him you love him. Preferably while in bed.”I smirked and the tea...