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If this is a lynch mob, you didn't bring enough people," I said."
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Ilona Andrews |
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You want an excuse for your failure and so you found someone to blame. If you survived, you would always be dirt, ground under someone else's boot.
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Ilona Andrews |
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An old song surfaced in my memories. Love is all you need. Maybe, but in real life love was rarely all you got. Raphael and I also had pride, and guilt, and anger, jealousy and hurt feelings,
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Jesu, Helen, turn the horses!
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Hello, sunshine," said Jim's voice. "I'm kind of busy." I turned the file on its side and examined the doodle. Still nothing. "No shit," he said. "Yeah. No gigs for me." "That's not why I'm calling." I frowned at the phone and turned the file upside down. "I'm all ears." "Someone wants to meet you," he said. "Tell him to get in line," I mumbled. The doodle almost looked like something. "I'm not joking." "You never joke because you're too d..
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Every house has a heart, the echoes of its owner's presence, and simple magic that turns a building into a home.
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My mother stared at the ceiling. "Did you hear that?" "Hear what?" I asked, my eyes wide. I would kill Jim. He could sit completely motionless for hours when on stakeouts. I'd seen him do it. He had to be dropping things on purpose. Thud! "That!" My mother turned predatory like a raptor. "What was that?" Lie, think of something quick, lie, lie . . . "I've got a cat." "What kind of a cat?" My mother's eyes narrowed. "A big one." "I"
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Ya veo... ?Jim esta contigo en este momento? -Si. Nos lo estamos montando a lo bestia y nos has interrumpido. Colgue. (...) Volvia a sumergirme en el mundo de los suenos, con la almohada eh la cabeza para bloquear el persistente y molesto haz de luz, cuando oi que una llave giraba en la cerradura. La puerta se abrio. La unica persona que tenia llave de mi apartamento era el encargado, y nunca entraria sin avisar. Me levante rapidamente y la..
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Como has conseguido entrar? - Tengo mis recursos. Cai en la cuenta. El habia reemplazado mi puerta hacia dos meses, porque yo estaba bastante ocupada intentando no morir. - Te quedaste una llave de mi apartamento. Capullo. ?Cuantas veces has entrado? - De vez en cuando. -?Por que? - Para saber que estas bien. Me ahorra el tiempo de sentarme junto al telefono a esperar una de tus llamadas de auxilio. -No tienes por que preocuparte: no va a h..
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First, we fight the battle, then we win the war.
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Desde cuando te importa una mierda mi bienestar? Creo que estas confundido en cuanto a la naturaleza de nuestra relacion. Tu y yo no nos llevamos bien. Tu eres un monstruo psicopata del control. Pretendes darme ordenes y yo deseo matarte. Soy una idiota insubordinada y cabezota. Te vuelvo loco y tu quieres estrangularme. -!Una vez! !Solo lo intente una vez! -Una es mas que suficiente. La cuestion es que no jugamos limpio. Nosotros... Libero..
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I need an audience with his furry Highness." "I can't believe you're saying this, after all the bitc--yelling you did when I called you for the Spring Meet. I distinctly remember 'never see that arrogant asshole again' and 'over my dead body.'" "Spring Meet was optional." After working with the Pack to dispatch the Red Point Stalker, I was granted the Friend of the Pack status, which apparently came with such benefits as being invited to c..
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So that's the secret," the Beast Lord said. I froze with the spoon halfway to my mouth. That was it. He had figured out what I was and now he was playing with me. "You okay?" he asked. "Gone a bit pale there." In a moment he would drop the charade and rip me to pieces. If I was lucky. "Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--..
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You're going to tell me what you've blundered into." It wasn't a question, but I determined to take it as such. "No." "No?" "No." He crossed his arms on his chest, making his carved biceps bulge. I vividly remembered those steel-hard biceps flexing as he hoisted me up off the floor by my throat. "You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no.' You'd pull ..
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Curran smiled. "What's so funny?" "Your panties have a bow," he said. I looked down. I was wearing a short tank top--not mine--and my blue panties with a narrow white strip of lace at the top and a tiny white bow. Would it have killed me to check what I was wearing before I pulled the blanket down? "What's wrong with bows?" "Nothing." He was grinning now. "I expected barbed wire. Or one of those steel chains." Wiseass. "I'm secure enough i..
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Feel free to go over there and kick them while they're down. When you're done, tell them to clean everything up and head straight to the stables. Aunt Karen will be overjoyed to have two slaves for the next three weeks.
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How much farther?" Derek asked. "Patience is a virtue," Ghastek advised. "Lecturing a wolf about patience is unwise." That was the first time Derek condescended to addressing Ghastek directly, and his face plainly showed he felt quite soiled by having to stoop so low. "Should I find myself speaking to an animal for some bewildering reason, I'll take it under advisement." The magic hit, so thick my heart skipped a beat. Derek clenched his te..
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He grabbed the nearest lizard, twisted it with a loud snap, and tossed it aside. "Hey, baby." "Hi." I beheaded a lizard. "Where are the kids?" "With the MSDU." He disemboweled a beast with a quick swipe of his claws. "You're having all this fun without me." "I'm not doing much. Just having tea and cookies." I cut at another lizard. "Thinking deep thoughts." I love you. "Then I'll join you." He loved me, too."
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You should try making more noise as you walk, too." Curran suggested. "Maybe the ghouls will mistake you for a small underground elephant and run off."
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But would I get you, if I were an innkeeper?
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Did he kill Grandmother?" I whispered. "Don't be ridiculous," Erra's voice said in my ear. "She is already dead. Besides, your grandmother was the Shield of Assyria. Even if he committed every drop of his power to it, he couldn't stomp her out of existence. She's buying us time. He's got a busy night ahead of him."
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People never wanted to tell me their life stories. They usually scooted out of my way and said things like, "Take whatever you want; just go."
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He would soak in that silver glow until it shone from his eyes and sing a long song about hunting and running through the dark wood in the middle of the night.
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Are you okay?" "I'm tired. My knee is hurting again and I'm trying to teleport myself upstairs." "Um, Kate, you can't do that." "I know. But I'm trying very hard. Let me know if I start fading?"
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Sorry about our . . . altercation in the buggy. I was only playing. I'm Raphael." "The one who likes the hurting." I moved to shake his hand and he reversed it and kissed my fingers instead, singeing me with a look that was pure smolder. I took my hand back. "That woke me up." He smiled a picture-perfect smile. "Been a while?" For some reason, I felt like answering. "Two years. And if you could tone down that smile, I'd appreciate it. Getti..
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I'm trying to understand." I opened my eyes. Explaining my moral code really wasn't my forte. "Imagine you're being chased by wolves. You're running through the woods, no settlement in sight, and you come across a baby lying abandoned on the ground. Do you save the baby or do you leave him for the wolves?" I saw the hesitation in his dark eyes. "I'd leave the little bastard," he declared, a bit too loudly. "Would slow the wolves down." "You..
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Teddy bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal.
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Cyanide," I explained. "You can't kill him with that." Curran grimaced. "It's not for him. It's for me." They stared at me. "People were dying," I said. "He was laughing, and all I could do was to sit tight and be safe." Curran growled. "You think it's easy for me?" "No. But you're used to it. You have experience with responsibility for people's lives. I don't. I don't want anybody else to die for me. I'm up to my knees in blood as is." "I ..
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If the dog could hum, he'd be singing "La-la-la!" in tune with his footsteps. Cough sauntered over to him. William pressed against the wall. No bullets. So far, so good. Cough clenched, and vomited something chunky onto the grass. Terrific. The big dog sat on his haunches and looked at William with a perplexed expression on his face. "Well, eat it back up," William hissed. "Don't waste it." Cough gave a tiny whine. "I'm not eating your puke..
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Tony looked at me with the long-suffering patience of an adult child who knew an educational lecture was coming and there was no way to escape. "One" --
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Also, your father." My eyes snapped open. "What about my father?" Roman blinked. "That was a bona fide snarl." Ascanio nodded, his eyes wide. "Yes, she gets scary sometimes. She's very difficult to work for." "I can imagine. "
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I'd like to go to one," she said. "It might not be my thing even, but I'd like to go at least once to say I've done it. Sometimes I feel cheated. I know it's selfish, but sometimes I wonder what it would've been like if my grandfather didn't get himself exiled. Who knows, I might have been a lady." He didn't have much use for ladies. A lady was someone else's wife or daughter or sister. They were not real, almost like trophies forever out ..
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A pale, sweaty Corona bottle invaded my field of vision. It was clamped in a hand attached to a muscular arm with pale blond hair. "Peace offering," Curran said. Did I hear him come in? No. I took the beer. He paused on the other side of the tub. He was wearing a white gym towel. "I'm about to take the towel off and hop in," he said. "Fair warning." There are times in life when shrugging takes nearly all of your will. "I've seen you naked...
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You should ask him where his crew is." Doolittle's face wrinkled in disgust. "Go on. Tell her." Jim didn't look like he wanted to tell me anything. "Where is Brenna?" "On the roof, keeping a lookout," Jim said. "And the rest?" Come to think of it, I hadn't seen any of them since we came out of Unicorn. "Apparently there is a band of loups near Augusta." Doolittle leveled an outraged glare at Jim. "I've been listening to it on the radio. The..
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It just goes to show that no matter how great a nail you give humanity, we'll manage to hammer it into the ground crooked. We suck. It's the nature of our species.
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You wanted me," he said. Lying would only give him greater satisfaction. I had to keep him on the other end of the tub or I would throw myself at him again. "Yes, I did." "What happened?" "I remembered who I am and who you are." "And who am I? Enlighten me." "You're the man who likes to play games and hates losing. And I'm the idiot who keeps forgetting that. Turn around, so I can get out, please." And he almost had me too. He sprawled agai..
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all the types of beings one finds oneself dealing with, the true believers are the worst. A typical sentient's psyche is a spiderweb. Pull on the right thread and you will get the desired result. Praise them and they will like you. Ridicule them and they'll hate you. Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason. A zealot's psyche is a tightrope. They have severed..
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I stopped by the super for the new key, climbed to my apartment, and studied my new lock. Big, metal, and shiny. Not a scratch on it. Even the key itself had a bizarre groove carved into it, which made the whole setup supposedly completely burglar proof. I unlocked the door, stepped inside, and shut it behind me. I kicked my shoes off, wincing at the hint of ache in my stomach. It would take a long time before it healed completely. At leas..
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No siempre existe un noble proposito. A menudo, hay una razon, la necesidad de salvar a alguien o algo: tu amigo, tu amante, un inocente que no merece resultar herido. A veces es una razon puramente egoista. Uno puede luchar por fortalecer su cuerpo, por su buen nombre o por su cordura. A veces, es solo un trabajo, pero decidir luchar y hacerlo son dos cosas bien distintas.
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Those who remain have forgotten they are alive. They think they have more in common with their fallen than with their enemy. Nothing could be further from the truth. I know the difference between life and death. Two live beings from the opposite boundaries of the galaxy have infinitely more in common with each other than the living and the dead from the same family.
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People do horrible things in the name of keeping things just the way they are." "Where"
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True beauty is in how that person makes you feel. When a man truly loves you, the longer you are together, the more beautiful you will be to him. When he looks at you and you look at him, you won't just see the surface. You will see everything you shared, everything you've been through, and every happy moment you hope for." Her"
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It's a sword made out of your grandmother's bones, Kate.
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Ilona Andrews |
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You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.
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