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.

I’m going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly.

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...

He leaned his head to me, his neck so close to my lips, I felt the heat coming off his skin. His breath was warm against my ear. His voice was a ragged snarl. “I...

I’m investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods.Perfect, it will keep him occupied.In what capacity?Bait.

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...

Did you strangle the wolf alpha?” Not that she didn’t deserve it. Curran grimaced. “Of course not. I needed information. After I put her face in my mouth, we agreed that it was in her...

He groaned and I saw his face. “Curran!” I would’ve preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait…

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...

We can get you a throne with snakes. I’ll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the...

What is wrong with you?Many, many things.

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...

[…] The alpha-wolf has hurt himself […].” “What happened to the alpha-wolf?””LEGOs.””Legos?” It sounded Greek but I couldn’t recall anything mythological with that name. Wasnt it an island?”He was carrying a load of laundry into...

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...

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

I need to fan myself.””No, you don’t.

And you expect me to commute two hours each way from the Keep to the Order.” I kept my voice mild. “I suppose I won’t be needing my job, my house, or my clothes anymore.””I...

I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt.

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.