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“How bad does it have to be for you not to be making jokes?”
Compartmentalize and conquer.
Too many things in this world are way too good at catching glimpses of your thoughts.
There’s no cold like the cold of dark water.
no matter how skilled and elegant a foe might be, a sledgehammer to the skull is a sledgehammer to the skull.
I mean, yeah. I could have run, but come on. There’s no one human who likes that much cardio.
Because you are in close alliances with scary creatures who are doing scary things to you, and you barely seem to acknowledge it.
The White Council had never been a source of anything but grief to me.
An old hatred. The hardest kind to resist.”
Mab gave me a look that reminded me of why she was the Queen of Air and Darkness, and her eyes were as cold and grey as chains. “Any will can be broken.”
My terror for my child would not make me better able to defend her.
“Best you learn to read the subtext, if you wish to continue in this business.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t cheat now and then.
“Symbolic pizza sucks!” Toot shouted.
“My lord!” Toot shrilled. “Your Guard stands ready to serve and to lead our people in defense of the pizza!”
“When a group comes together around something they love,” I said, “it changes things. It changes how they see one another. It becomes a community. Something greater than the sum of its parts.”
“Accorded nations,” Mab said calmly. “Stand to arms. Mortal men of Chicago, remain in the homes that offer you your only safety. The enemy has come for the city.”
“Sir,” I said, “how well does history suggest that leashes will work out with me? For anybody at all.”
if the Titan truly wishes to subjugate humanity, she must destroy literacy as part of the process.”
“Hindsight,” he said. “Until the extended consequences of any action are known, it is both courageous and foolish. And neither.”
Damned pooch is more of a people person than I’ll ever be.
“Oh, and never mind the Sasquatch. He’s with me.”
That poor lunkhead Lara had left unconscious in the basement was missing Viking Christmas.
The Sasquatch flashed a sudden, very wide, very white grin. It might have been charming from a safe distance.
Hell’s bells, it felt good to be doing something I knew was right.
I wonder what it says about me that pizza has been one of the better long-term investments in my career.
Tonight, Chicago fought for its life.
We bumped knuckles, hard enough to draw blood.
Now, I don’t know if you’ve ever been scooped up by a Sasquatch or not, but it isn’t the sort of thing you forget.
War leaves you precious little time to be human. It’s one of the more horrible realities about it.
You can’t predict chaos because it’s chaos, Harry.”
We were both wrong to feel that way. And it didn’t make a damned bit of difference.
Some things should hurt. Some things should leave you with scars. Some things should haunt your nightmares. Some things should be burned into memory. Because that was the only way to make sure that they would be fought. It was the only way to face them. It was the only way to cast down the future agents of death and havoc before they could bring things to this. The words never again mean more to some people than others.
“I hate that you’re here with me,” I said. “I know.” “And I’m glad that you’re here with me.” “I know.”
“You’ve got a hell of a lot of nerve, Mab,” I murmured. And her voice whispered in my ear, as if she’d been standing flush against me, “Thank you, my Knight. It is a fine compliment.”
“For all power there is a price.”
Maybe the real monsters, the big bad monsters, aren’t created.
The real battle for your own soul isn’t about falling from a great height; it’s about descending, or not, one choice at a time.
“I really like little Jedi man,”
Yeah, the world was full of monsters and demons. But it was a human world.
people fighting for their homes had, historically, done incredible things.
You can’t fix tomorrow until it gets here.”
Butters was never going to be a powerhouse, but the little guy didn’t have an atom of quit anywhere in him.
“Then you are freaking out in the most useful way possible,” I said. “Keep it up.”
That made my choice simple. Suicidal, but simple.
with a shock, I realized why he’d been at that day-care center in the first place. The little girl was his. Oh God.
Hate is comforting. Hate is pure. There aren’t any questions, any worries about right and wrong, any quibbles about your motivations or goals. There are no doubts. Hate is serene.
He was human. He felt pain. It was an enormous disadvantage.
Why waste breath on a corpse?
I’m not saying pain is what defines us as human beings. But it is, in many ways, what unites us.
