Being bad feels pretty good, huh?” – John Bender

In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride.

Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his...

Very bad things.

How did you get in here?’ (…) ‘How I got here isn’t important, because I could do it twenty times again, each time a different way.

But Dobby shouted, “You shall not harm Harry Potter! … He got up, face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a long, threatening finger. “You shall go now,” he said fiercely, pointing...

…as of this moment there’s the police department way, the federal law enforcement way, the military way… and my way. If you want me to function at my best then you’re going to have to...

They don’t know you’re secretly a badass?

Enough!” ter Borcht said.

There were more of them out there. More walkers. And I was being asked to step up and be… what? Some kind of Captain Heroism who would lead the boys in the Red, White, and...

Far be it from me to slow down two badass supermodels on a mission, but we have a problem,” a male voice said wryly.I could see Christian out of the corner of my eye as...

Hello, Kanta. They’re saying interesting things about you on the news,” she said. “I wondered if you’d survived.””He didn’t,” I said. “I killed him.”Silence.”I killed Mkhai, too,” I said. “Tens of thousands of years, gone...

My gaze moved to Vance. He was looking up at me and I could read nothing in his eyes.”Another pop?” I asked.He shook his head but kept watching me. I looked at the floor and...

Sybil’s female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates...

I practice karate moves when I think nobody is watching. It’s all part of being a real American badass, I guess. Chicks dig it. I mean they would, if they ever looked and caught me...

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don’t care what anyone else thinks.

The problem was that Simon did not know how to pack like a badass.

I’m as deadly as a marine, when compared to marine plant life. It took lots of water, sunlight, and standing still to get this badass.

To be clear, I don’t care.

I’m not talking about faith in God, I’m talking about faith in Mark Watney

Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he’d become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.

What can I say? I prefer to die well-informed.”-Venom and Elena

So fuck Dan. Fuck the police. Fuck the doctors. Fuck Jerome. And fuck the infected!

If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.” –Prince Oberyn of Dorne.

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone,...

Dorothea: “What the fuck are you?”Nix: “A man who wanted to be a God…then changed his mind.

Technology won’t protect you from being attacked for fresh water. A badass blade will. Back in Eden where I grew up, the closest thing to knifework I’d experienced was cutting up a loaf of warm...

Bitte. Es ist Morgan! Abschlussballkönig, Sportstar, Einserkandidat, Rebell, Sexgott.” – Tori

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore’s face as he stared down at the unconscious form...

If there’s any guy crazy enough to attack me, I’m going to show him the end of the world — close up. I’m going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes....

First blood is mine.Last blood counts for more.–Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do’Urden

I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I...