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hellaciously
Love means leaving yourself vulnerable, knowing that there is someone to catch you when you fall.
I had learned that it was those things, compromise in the form of phone calls and folded clothes, that cemented the bedrock of a relationship.
That started a conversation about the better old days that eventually spread to include Adam and even Warren. Jesse met my eyes and grimaced in sympathy.
Auriele is blind to the faults of people she loves. I am the most fortunate man in the world because I am the beneficiary of that blindness, but I forget that other people are beneficiaries, too.”
I didn’t have much of a chance, but that didn’t mean I was going to roll over and give the thing my throat.
Coyote is the spirit of mischief, of second chances, of adaptation—the archetype of coyotes. It is true that he shares characteristics with the great manitous. Like him, they can take the shape of people, though they are not people. They are powerful in their sphere of influence.
“Mostly the great manitous ignore us and pay attention only to those things that matter to them.
Sometimes I see the future, sometimes the past, most times it’s the present only somewhere else where I can’t freaking do anything about anything.”
When I do see the future, while it is possible to change it, the reason I see that particular future is because it has become the most likely scenario, and it’s pretty close to being set in stone.”
But in times of war, the care of the dead is outweighed by the need for survival.
“Any fight you live through is a fight well fought,” said Gary.
Why was it that I could run and run—but a minute or so after I stopped, I couldn’t breathe anymore?
There is nothing more useless than a watchdog that barks at normal things the same way it does at a thief at the door.
“We’ve determined that Ms. Hauptman is a potential threat to the public safety, and we are bringing her in as a murder suspect who has supernatural powers that make her too dangerous to be incarcerated in the usual ways.”
“This,” he said, “is a disgrace. That government agents who should be above reproach lend themselves to such a scheme is appalling.”
A man like Hauptman, a werewolf, will die defending his mate. He would never have let you leave with her. He tried to tell you that.
I thought about Bran and wondered what made Agent Kent think that they ever had a chance at eliminating the werewolves.
He is our enemy because he kills those who cannot protect themselves against him. Because he will not stop until someone stops him.”
But death isn’t a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.
