If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?
She said, “You’re a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?””In compassion. Because of necessity.” Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar’s hands. “The same way you carry water.
You know,” he said, “every time a vampire says he doesn’t believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.
What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object–but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology. Magic, then, and a deep form of it.
She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her.Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow.
The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say “please” and “thank you” same as any mother’s son.
Angelo,” he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia – the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain – and waking.
Opinions are like kittens,” he commented. “People are always giving them away.
Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.
Whichever group is in ascension at a given moment is, historically speaking, both unlikely to acknowledge the existence of abuses or bias, and also to justify the bias on any grounds they can – social, biological, what have you.