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...

Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!

Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would...

He leaned toward me. Suddenly the space between us shrank.”I will do everything in my power to ensure your survival, and should the need arise, I will put myself between danger and you.” His voice...

You said sloppy! Look, I didn’t even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.

I’m counting to ten in my head.””Is it helping?””No.””It doesn’t help me with you either. I used to life weights to alleviate frustration, but someone blowtorched my weight bench. How did you do it, by...

Derek, you just don’t say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you’ll spend your life alone.””Don’t change the subject. Andrea is cool. And she smells nice. It will be okay.”Apparently...

I can’t hate people that much. Don’t get me wrong. I want to murder every last Keeper I can find. But that’s not hate. That’s vengeance.

a dense wall of greenery bordered it, …an impenetrable barrier of oaks, evergreen shrubs, blackberry that somehow resisted the frost, and thorns. In the defense department, the witches would make Sleeping Beauty’s evil witch weep...

Fuck the pack. I gave them fifteen years of my life. I fought for them, bled for them, and the moment my back was turned, they attacked my wife. I owe them nothing.

When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out.I clapped my hands. ‘I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but...

I’ll be busy for the next eight weeks, so let’s set this for November 15th.MENUI want lamb or venison steak. Baked potatoes with honey butter. Corn on the cob. Rolls. And apple pie, like the...

The judge’s massive eyebrows crept up. “Kaldar. Are you the one speaking for the plaintiff today?” “Yes, Your Honor.””Well, shit,” Dobe said. “I guess you’re familiar with the law. You hit it over the head,...

I lied. I need your help.””Who are we killing?””Do you have a pen?

I would not leave you. I’ll be there. Wherever you want ‘there’ to be.

Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him.”A fine pair we make,” he said.”Yeah.

Torch strode over and stared at the fiver”What’s this?””Some change for you. Buy your flunkies some decent clothes.” I dipped my fingers into the jar and smeared think fragrant paste on my face. Torch frowned,...

Will I get nights of ecstasy?””And days. Ecstasy all the time.

I am a god. I don’t do fair.

It’s a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

That’s all right,” she told him. “I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine.”Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism.

The last time Assistant Principal Parker called, a girl in the school’s locker room had accused Julie of being a whore during the two years she’d spent on the street. My kid took exception to...

I live alone.””And your point is?””You have the Pack. You’re surrounded by people who would fall over themselves for the pleasure of your company. I have no one. My parents are dead, my entire family...

We don’t need teenage bouda sex fiends as interns.How do you know he is a sex fiend?He is fifteen and he’s a bouda. Hello?

I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.

Hold your horses. I’m coming.”…”From where I’m standing you’re just breathing laboriously.”The snow swam out of focus. “Breathing hard. Are you coming or just breathing hard. You’ve got to get your one-liners straight.

Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes.

How are you?””Perfectly fine,” he said.”Are your ribs broken?””Probably not. Cracked at most. We fought very carefully.””Did this settle anything?””It made me feel better,” he said, sitting up. “Did you see me kick him in...

It seems that the young woman made some indelicate suggestion of a threesome…When I got there, Miss Nash was standing by the hot tub in a small bikini, pointing the business end of a SIG-Sauer...

I trusted her about as far as I could throw her. I was strong and she was small, but it still wasn’t very far.

When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high […]

Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slits somebody’s throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

Who snitched?””We have people monitoring police radio frequencies. They gave Jim a heads-up in case our security had to storm PAD offices and bust you out of there. I found out when I saw Jim...

He glued the chair to my ass.”Silence.”Is it still…attached?””I can’t get it off.

It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide.

If anybody comes to challenge you, we’ll kick their ass. We’ll find a way to handle Roland. And if the pack Council produces any kittens, we’ll give them to Jim to raise., He needs to...

Mom?” Mother turned to Grandmother.”What?””She’s going to lunch with her kidnapper!””Take a picture for me,” Grandma said.

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.