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October 25 - November 25, 2020
Witches use the suffering of others for their power, and a werewolf could suffer a great deal before he died.
Humans, in her experience, were weak and fragile things prone to dying and breeding with about the same frequency.
Everyone hurts everyone—it is a part of living.
immortality is more curse than blessing. All things pass away. Love may live for a month or a year, but sooner or later, it leaves.”
Love, like any other living thing, needs to be fed. Only if you starve it will it die.”
Magic’s first child is always fire.
Brutal climate, hard and dangerous work brought a certain clarity to the need for pleasure.
They came to see Glinda the Good Witch, but after midnight, they found the Wicked Witch of the West and left quaking in fear of flying monkeys.
wolves, she’d noticed before, had a somewhat different idea of personal space than she did.
You can’t hide sexual interest from something that can trail a hummingbird on the wing.
“I know you know I’m here,” Kara said defensively. “Good,” he said without looking up from what he was doing. “I would hate to think you were stupid.”
It was better to be an expert in one thing than a dabbler in dozens.
People died when Bran was at his most reasonable. Some of them died horribly. All of them idiots.
I would be a much better monster than you were. There would be no stories about my reign of terror because no one would live to tell the tale.”
Bran looked considerably less dangerous than Charles—the huge, blank-faced man who stood alertly beside him. Not for the first time, Asil thought that it had served Bran well to have a son who oozed threat like a Twinkie oozed plasticky cream filling. Everyone looked at Bran’s son Charles and forgot who the most dangerous person was.
I’d say he knows squat about predators, too, but he’s a lawyer.
I’d told her I’d wear a fedora when the cows came home wearing muumuus and feather boas.
Eastern Washington State was not a hotbed of hoodoo or voodoo.
Why would you compare a grown man to a sweet roll?
A girl in the next table gave a wolf whistle and said, “Can I kiss the cowboy next?” Okay, so maybe everyone wasn’t that uptight. Kyle gave her a cheeky grin. “Sorry. He’s my cowboy, you’ll have to find your own.” She sighed. “I have one. But he doesn’t look like that when he blushes.” “Maybe if I kissed him, he would?” Kyle arched an eyebrow.
If my prey is still writhing when I’m finished, it doesn’t make me any less a predator.”
“To a man with a hammer,” said Rajeev wisely, “all problems look like nails.
I'm a geek. I have never heard another geek use Dr. Seuss.
Part of submitting to a more dominant wolf is the belief that they will protect you better than you can protect yourself. They don’t believe you’ll protect them, so they won’t yield to you.”
“you pay me a lot of money to be a good nerd, which I am. There is not enough money in the world to make me be in charge of a company morale-improvement exercise.”
If she’d been Mercy, he wouldn’t be worried; Duffy would be lucky if he could walk tomorrow. But if she’d been Mercy, Duffy would never have chosen her as a target.
“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit,”
“You know it’s bad when they start quoting Oscar.”
“I don’t think I’ve heard that many swearwords in such a short period in my life, and I was in the army. And the best part is that I don’t have to quit smoking.”
“What exactly is a pony-shagging, bitch-faced, ball buster?”
Spring was old and summer just around the corner,
Change is neither good nor bad. It’s just change. Frightening, but survivable.
“Love,” observed Zack quietly, “is a good antidote to a lot of foul magic.
I’ll loan you the amount the insurance doesn’t cover.” “With interest,” I demanded. He pursed his lips, and said, “Of course. That makes sense. Charging my wife interest. What a smart idea.”
