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Bitch," he growls, immediately grasping for the world that most men do when they encounter a woman they can't control."
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I lost somebody I loved," she whispered. "I know that doesn't make me special. Happens to everyone. She made me feel special, though, more than anyone else I'd met in five hundred years." She wiped at the tear on her cheek. "I don't know if we would have made it last forever, but damn if we weren't going to try."
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Americans assert their own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient facts as mere opinions.>
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Icy glares from vampires are far icier than icy glares from people. And when the vampire giving you an icy glare is originally from Iceland, you are confronted with the archetypal origin of the term, and you shouldn't be surprised if your core body temperature drops a few degrees.
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I was haunted by the ghosts of those who had trespassed against me;
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archdruid used to say. "Get out of the way, get underneath some shelter, or give it some reason to change its mind about falling on you." Then he threw a pissed-off rooster at me. I had" --
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Heh! Fuck yew," I said."
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How can one freeze and put their hands above their head at the same time? Do they teach cops to shout contradictory instructions at suspects at the academy for some sinister purpose? If I obeyed one cop, did the other cop get to shoot me for resisting arrest?
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Everybody's makin' too much money off oil and coal and buyin' congressmen with it to make sure it stays that way.
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You must be thinking of stories from other cultures. Irish women tend to kick ass and do whatever they want. For exhibits A, B, and C, I give you the Morrigan, Brighid, and Flidais.
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Excellent plan. Atticus out.
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I dispelled my invisibility for a few seconds in his full view, a finger resting provocatively on my lower lip, giving him a come-hither look under a streetlight. His jaw and the bottle of Zubrowka dropped at the same time. It shattered, drawing his eyes to the sidewalk, and I took the opportunity afforded by his distraction to disappear again. "That was mean," Oberon said, watching the man look wildly around for me and pawing at his eyes a..
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hunted
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oberon
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Some while later Mekera found me, her face shining with joy. "Fiyori gave me her phone number! You know what this means?" "She likes you." "No! I mean yes, but it means I need to get a phone!"
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landed on my chest and stuck its proboscis
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For all that we may sometimes despise our fellows and be driven to rages and petty revenges, I think we are even darker creatures when we are alone. We can learn to fear our own thoughts more than the lash of the whip or the slap in the face.
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That light source is lava. A bit more dangerous than those fancy twisty light bulbs ye see these days
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You have some kind of food in a safe? Is that, uh... safe? Yes. You may relax and depend on my methods of preservation.
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For all its manifold beauties, the world is never so fine once someone you love leaves it; instead, there is only the bleak prospect of loneliness and might-have-beens.
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I come to dungeon for good time--which maybe is problem, I admit--but I get bad time instead.
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I dislike guilt," the Morrigan said. "It is regret and recrimination and despair over that which cannot be changed. It is like eating ashes for breakfast. It is the whip that clerics use on the laity, making the sheep slaves to whatever moral code the shepherds espouse. It is a catalyst for suicide and untold other acts of selfishness and stupidity. I cannot think of a more poisonous emotion." "I don't like it either," I admitted. "So why d..
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Because there's a narcissist with a bunch of cronies who wants to burn down the whole world--your piece of it included--for no other reason than to stoke his own ego and profit besides." "So, kinda like an American president, then."
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My God, Atticus, you look like you had an orgy with egg yolks and orange juice." "We might need a loofah," I admitted. "Dare I ask what happened?" "An Olympian exploded on us and it was yucky."
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Unidentified hole, please shut it and inspect yourself. Continue to talk and you will be ignored.
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The goddess of fire lit him up like a stump, just as she had promised, and I wondered why people who believed in the next life were so anxious to start living it instead of enjoying the one they had.
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The current popular image of Zeus as a cheerful, avuncular type perplexes me. I know it comes from a silly kids' movie, but I'm not sure they could have gotten it more wrong. Zeus was never avuncular. He killed his father, raped his sister, and then married her, calculating that sanctified incest was marginally better than the unsanctified kind. After that he conducted a series of what are generously called "affairs" with mortal women, thou..
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I have noticed over many centuries of relationships that a corollary to love is worry. They sort of come together as a matched set, and it's nigh impossible to ditch one without the other. I don't mean worry in the sense of a constant hand-wringing or an outward show of anxiety but a silent panic, always there but flaring up on occasion until one chokes and cannot see through a sudden veil of tears, panic that what you cherish most will be ..
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Why content ourselves with meager fish when we can eat our own animals, the God asked. I can not eat my own ass, though I thought it should be obvious to him. He carries me where so ever I wish.
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I don't remember the whole thing, because it was very long, but Atticus recited it for me once, and there was a line that went like this: "Cry ham hock and let slip the hogs of war!" I know you might not agree, but for me that was the best thing Shakespeare ever wrote." You mean, "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" from Julius Caesar? "No, I don't think that's it. There was ham in there; I'm sure he was talking about ham. They were goi..
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oberon
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That's using religion to cudgel people into conformity, and it grinds my gears.
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People do that--cling to their past because it's the only thing they consider safe. Trying something new or just accepting it turns their livers into jelly. But that's a load of bollocks. Ye take the new and appreciate it if it's good, like whiskey or poutine or girlfriends who bite, or ye dismiss it as shite if it's bad, like cell phones and cars, and move on. O
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I've never run this far before," he said at one point. "Or this fast for so long. It's better than sticking your head out a car window, that's for sure." My theory is that Oberon might be a master of Tao. He always sees what we filter out. The wind and the grass and something in the sky, sun or moon, shining on our backs as we run: They are gifts that humans toss away like socks on Christmas morning, because we see them every day and don't ..
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dogs
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new
granuile
hunted
kevin-hearne
old
oberon
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I wonder if they have a fancy law or name for the principle that Humans Ruin Everything for Profit. Maybe that's just capitalism
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I will tell you, even though you are young and unprepared: Men. are. Shit.
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The witch obviously wanted my help with something, and I could only assume that she wanted a new body to inhabit. But I didn't have any of those currently in stock, and bodies were one of the few things you couldn't buy (yet) on Amazon.
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he says as he drops it by me side again. I can't help but chuckle at that. "Ye know how to train humans already, don't ye?" "
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Sensei?" she asked. "Yes?" "Why are you always leaving about halfway through a workout to give Oberon a snack?" "What? Well, he's a good dog." "Granted, but he's a good dog all the time, and the only times you interrupt what you're doing to give him a snack are during workouts." "I reward him sometimes for using big words. And sometimes I reward him for shutting up." Now would be a good time to shut up. "
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Kevin Hearne |
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An owl hoots in the night, spooky as five hells and a jar of creamy peanut butter--that shite's unnatural.
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Kevin Hearne |
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An ignoranus," Manannan explains, "is someone who's both stupid and an arsehole."
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Kevin Hearne |
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Now, ye know right well I'm in favor of solving problems through stomping on nuts, but the first rule to follow--the one ye didn't remember--is not to stomp on your own.
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Kevin Hearne |
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the pain was unspeakable, worse than reading the collected works of Edith Wharton,
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Kevin Hearne |
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We should be building roads in and out of our own wee heads rather than erecting walls around them.
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Kevin Hearne |
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War always takes your life. Sometimes it's just not all at once.
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Kevin Hearne |
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I almost ask her, "Short or tall?" but catch myself just in time. She's an Irish goddess. If I give her a tiny glass of beer she will hurt me."
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Kevin Hearne |
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We would smile the radiant smiles of actors in fast-food commercials, merrily chuckling as we ate enough grease to make our hearts explode like meat grenades.
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