Life gives nothing to man without labor.
I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn’t make verbal threats were the most dangerous.
Trust, Kiki said, Trust is peppermints.
I'm glad you're here. We've had some. . . interesting developments. " Leif groaned. "That's Yelena-speak for life-threatening danger.
Some Queen of the Pipes, I thought. I'd believed I was better than a mindless drone. But I was the mindless one, hiding away. Even now I referred to them as if I didn't belong.
It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.
Ah, Kerry. You've found your heart. Who is she?". . . "A healer, but she's. . . gone.
She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.
I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.