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...

He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the...

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...

She surveyed the carnage behind him. “Did you have fun?”He showed her his teeth. “Yes.

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...

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.

Im’s offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk’s claws as it strikes its prey. They demonstrate their contraptions and everyone marvels. My children get drunk,...

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.

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....

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

Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.

He had the prettiest hair she had ever seen on a man: dark brown, almost black, and soft like sable, it fell down to his shoulders. She wondered what he’d do if she threw some...

I looked at him. “You really need to work on your threats. I can’t tell if you’re threatening me or inviting me for tea.

It’s a party house.””I hope for your sake it’s a very tame party.” If he brought me to some sort of sex orgy, he would fly right through one of those pretty windows, headfirst.

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...

You’ll lose.””What makes you so sure?””You have no discipline. All you do is tear down shit down. My father is a bastard, but at least he builds things. You turn cities into smoking ruins and...

I realized that I’m a child.”William looked point-blank at her chest. “No.

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...

I hit him on the back of the neck. He submerged. Help. I’ve drowned the Beast Lord.

Kid 1: *examining my gorgeous strawberry and blueberry pies*: Wow, Mom, your pies don’t look awful this time.Me (Ilona): …~A little later~Kid 2: *wandering into the kitchen*Kid 1: Hey, you’ve got to see these pies....

Rene, you want us to find you-don’t-know-who and to retrieve his you-don’t-know-what for you-won’t-tell-me-whom?

On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you’re getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.

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 Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed.”See?” Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. “That’s how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do...

Oh, Gods.”His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. “The name’s William. It’s a common mistake.

I’ll call you,” he repeated.”If you call me, I won’t pick up the phone.””You will wait by the phone for my call, and when it rings, you will pick it up and you will speak...

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.

You’re right, my problems are the biggest problems ever,” George said. “No, honestly, it’s horrible to be me. I’m rich, talented, and I make girls cry.””How do you make girls cry, exactly?”George turned to her....

Say ‘pop.'” “Pop?” “That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass.

Andrea raised her eyebrows. “Look at you, all high-speed.””Yeah, you’d think I was a detective or something.”Andrea held her hand out. “You’ll jinx it.

Secret to what?””Secret to shutting you up,” he said. “I just have to beat you till you’re half-dead, then give you chicken soup and”–he raised his hands–“blessed silence.

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

Kate Daniels, deadly swordmaster. Fear my twitching pinkie.

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

Did I hurt you in the parking lot?””No, m’lady. I fell, so I could put a tracker on your car.”Great.

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’?

Our standard rate. A doubloon a day.”It was generous. More than generous–some families would put him up for a week for a single coin.”Half a doubloon a day,” she said.”No, you see, the idea behind...

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

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.

You sure you don’t need your Prince Charming to come and save you?” The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. “Sure, do you have one handy?

Two hours. More than enough time to kidnap a man. Or to slice his throat, bury him in the forest, and steal his magic project. How the hell did de Harven fit into it? Did...

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

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

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...

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

Any messages for me?” Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person.”Yes. Hold on.” She pulled out a handful of pink tickets and recited from...

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...

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

Doode,” George said.He’d practiced all morning but still didn’t get it quite right. “Nope, more u, less oo. Duuude.””Dude.””Dude.””Okay, dude.” George nodded. “How’s it hanging?” Jack asked. “How am I supposed to answer that?” George...

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