I wrapped up my food to take home. "Let's go. We need to discuss your favorite method of dying, because I'm going to kill you. Just so you know." Claire grinned. "You're welcome." ~ Gray

Yeah, but what we need are some fighters who know how to take down a wolf. I know three. If you are going to get the Pigs, you'll need backup. They're not to be trifled with.

If she in fact knows magic she needs to do a spell to adjust that shitty attitude she has all of a sudden," Nona said. "I may not be a witch, but I will knock her right off that broomstick if she...

And what if I need something? Find it yourself. Connor snorted. Where did all the niceties go? You're not a guest. You're family. Find your own fucking towels.

You and your sister will be going with us this day, and that is not up for discussion. Nor will it be an argument. If you have a problem with that, little girl, then I will be more than happy to have...

What do you want for her? Dragon bones.

When you walk around with a long face in the house, that is called conflict.

Do you want to resolve a conflict successfully? Don't wait, start a conversation.

Gentlemen, I like war. Gentlemen, I love war. I like genocide. I like blitzkrieg. I like aggressive war. I like defensive war. I like sieges. I like breaking through. I like withdrawing. I like...

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as...

Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.

You weren't able to talk sense into him? Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death. I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.

I twitched a smile, resisting the temptation to kick his teeth down his throat, and folded myself into the deck chair.

"Please," Eddie implored. "Not Lassiter. Anybody but Lassiter - he could be anywhere on the planet, doing anything."

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a...

In a state of conflict or a conflicted state.

And my good lord, for your honors better satisfaction, that it was not so barbarously nor brutally done as you think it to be, it should seem your honor hath been wrongly informed, in saying he was...

I'm not speaking to hear myself talk, Mr. Cronyn. I told you to be quiet. One more interruption and I will have you silenced.

Fred launched himself at Dawes, pushing out with numbed legs, and Dawes scuttled back. Fred landed on the deck hard. The world grayed out for a second, and he tasted blood. He struggled forward,...

Danny would have thought it comical if it had come from any other source, on any other day, in any other country. But Curtis had come to the table with something they'd never expected, something they...

"Good man, Foaly." He grinned. "Hit that backstabber where it hurts, right in the ambition."

Your ultimatum didn't sit well with me, so naturally, I voiced my opinion. Which was? That you should go copulate with a pig. It sounded way cooler in medieval French.

sometimes the most difficult battles are the ones we are forced not to fight.

War confused civilians every bit as surely as it did the armies who got lost in its fogs.

Odd things happen in a battle, and the human heart has strange and gruesome depths and the human brain still stranger shallows;

McCutchen knew a demon when he saw one, and he'd burn it out of the Catholic Hills like he'd burned it out of Matamoros years ago.

then Malloy took the gun away from whoever did it.

Sure. Whatever. She's all yours. Daemon grinned. That she is. My hand was twitching to connect with his face. I am not yours. A small part of me wanted him to deny my words, though. Shush it, he said,...