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...

I know human nature. We might sacrifice a few, because we are stupid and hardwired for group survival. But we would never die in the thousands because a god wished it. Those kinds of numbers...

I said, I know why you’re afraid to fight with me.””And why is that?” If he flexed again, I’d have to implement emergency measures. Maybe I could kick some sand at him or something. Hard...

They had picked up Julie’s scent hit wolfsbane lost her and found her trail again at the crumbling Highway 23 except it was two hours old and mixed with horse scents. She was hitchhiking. Great....

Do you like my working persona?” Saiman asked softly. “An aesthetically pleasing combination of intelligence and elegance, wouldn’t you say?”Aren’t we pleased with ourselves. “Are you Chinese, Japanese, half-white? I can’t tell, your features are...

The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.

I have to say, your technique is really different. Curran hammered at the spell until it broke. You just talk. Help me out here, what’s the strategy? Are you hoping the ward will get tired...

How is it different?”He rolled his head back, sable hair falling down on his shoulders. “With Rose I knew what to say. I could take a step back and talk to her. I remembered all...

Your move.”Er. I was sitting atop the Beast Lord in my underwear, holding a knife to his throat. What the hell was my next move?

Why not? It’s natural selection. Just like nature.” I wrinkled my nose. “Boudas love this argument, because it gives them an excuse to do all the wrong things. ‘I’m sorry I screwed your sister and...

Aha. Keep telling yourself that.

Here, have another one.

You know anything about investigative work?””Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

I paused with the pen in my hand. “He burst into flames?””He became engulfed in fire.””Was his buddy made out of orange rocks and at any point yell, ‘It’s clobbering time’?

Obviously I was missing the whole picture. Any minute now he would leap up, wrench the two-inch silver alloy bars apart despite the fact that silver was toxic to shapeshifters, and heroically kick Saiman’s ass....

People around me died, usually in horrible and bloody ways.

So this is what it’s about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s’mores with a gnome and a mountain man.””Yep””What’s your plan for...

Of course. Everyone has a talent. Yours is crocheting and mine ismaking melodramatic statements.

She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing… “Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.” Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.

Anger – a better alternative to caffeine.

Azdaha were no joke. … Not much is known about this dragon [the aforementioned Gandarw], except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why that was such an important detail. I mean if I...

Your date appears to be hysterical,” Rene told me.”You think I should slap some man into him?

It’s not a loup cage, you know,’ I told her. ‘It’s a holding cell. Or safe room. or secure room. I don’t think Jim ever settled on a term he could live with.”Aha. It’s a...

I know it may come as a shock, but it’s sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman. In fact, I’m pretty sure that if you don’t wait, you may have...

Raphael was a bouda and they viewed sex as a fun recreational activity that should be practiced vigorously and often.

Would you like me to install one of those child playground slides for you?

I’d missed him so much, it almost hurt. It started the moment I left the Keep and nagged at me all day. Every day I had to fight with myself to keep from making up...

Just stay close to us. If we get in trouble, we’ll kill everything.

Were you watching me sleep? Because I thought we agreed that’s creepy.

The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.

Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare.I leaned a little toward Luther. “Is this the part where I faint in fear?”Luther bit his lip. “He might...

Next to me, Saiman smiled. “We all want what we can’t have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.

Both.

Don’t disrespect my donkey

We need a barn or one of those storage areas for the Broken vehicles.””A garage?”He gave her a short nod. “A private, relatively remote location, with thick walls to dampen the sound and preferably a...

Everyone brought a pet. I feel left out.” An enthusiastic howl broke the silence, and Grendel bounded through the doorway. He galloped through the steak house, skidded on the floor, smashed into my chair, and...

I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn’t melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena’s chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.

Sh!t. F_ck sh!t.’….’Sh!t f_ck would have also been accepted.

You started the name calling.

If I fought for them and was crippled, they would all say nice things,and then they would replace me and forget I was ever there. You would stay with me. You would take care of...

Aha,” Andrea said. “I’m going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as ‘sugar woogums’.

If you don’t explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody.” Of course, Raphael might like that…

It was one of those idiotic things that could’ve been resolved in a split second. Tara had no right to touch Raphael, and once she did he had every right to punch her. She should’ve...

Curran snarled and hurled the rock against the mountain. The boulder flew, hit like a cannon ball, and rolled back down. Curran chased it, pulled another smaller rock out of the dirt, and smashed it...

Audrey turned to him, a sly little spark hiding in her eyes. “THe only man who gets to call me’love’ would be waking up next to me after a very, very fun night. Fun night....

Got any to spare?” I could’ve picked somebody rational. But no, I had to fall in love with this arrogant idiot. Come to the Keep with me, be my princess. Mourn me when your crazy...

Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

I need to fan myself.””No, you don’t.

My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up.

She can tell you the height of the attacker from the trigonometry of the blood spatter, while I’m fuzzy on what trigonometry is.