“I smirked. “Careful, Aussie, that almost sounded like a compliment.”
I reached to take the knife, but Matthias caught my wrist, reeled back his arm, and stabbed the blade into my hand. I screamed. The Aussie laughed. Okay, it was only a prick. On my finger. But his serial-killer plunge and deranged look of delight got my heart pumping.”
Source: Drop Dead Demons
“Fascinating!” Jayden was almost gleeful. “Yet another one you’re immune to, so it seems. Like Tristan’s hallucinating. And you can hold Matthias’s whips. Perhaps you should try to drown me.”
I looked at him. “Are you crazy? Next you’ll want me to suffocate Logan!”
“Excellent,” Jayden smiled. “I hadn’t thought of that.”
"What?” Logan backed away.”
Source: Drop Dead Demons
“I always figured Gloria, but mentioning my guardian angel didn’t seem prudent, so I shrugged ignorance and yawned.
“Sneezing works just as well, if not better.”
“What?” The stupid belt would not unbuckle.
“Yawning is adequate,” he said. “But when you get caught with a question you prefer not to answer, it is better to sneeze. Anyone who asked the question will usually say bless you in some form. The question is forgotten, and you move on unscathed.”
“Okay. Ah-choo.”
“Bless you. So where did the complex and ancient protection wards come from?”
“You said that would work on anyone.”
“I am not just anyone”
Source: Demons in Disguise
“Oh, thank God.”
“Please,” Matthias said. “I told you she’s too hard to kill.”
“Aww,” I said. “Thank you.”
Matthias offered me a sweet smile. “Just like a cockroach.”
Source: Demons in Disguise
“Your Sicarius team?” Goodbye frying pan, hello fire.
“Yes,” he said proudly. “Out of emotional concern for others, I am acquiring assets to come to y’all’s aid.” He saw the looks on our faces, and his fell. “That was wrong? Dang it. I thought I nailed it this time. I’ll go stall them.”
Source: Demons in Disguise
“Oh, no. This is what happens in horror movies and then everyone dies," Wolfgang emphasized. The four of us gave him a look and he shrugged.
"Tell me one horror movie where they split up and actually all come out alive."
"It's a horror movie,”
Source: SSS: Year One
“Well, as I was saying," Pudding went on. "My silver spoon collection was my most prized hoard at the time, but my brother Theodore had had his eye on it for many years. He was always after my spoons. And one day...he got them." He sighed heavily. "And it was very, very, very... very traumatising.”
Source: Alpha Wolf
“On three," I say.
"One, two, three, go or one, two, three?" Anakin asks.
Micah huffs. "On go."
I begin counting, "One, two, three—"
Anakin steps away and Micah screeches, "Dude, we said on go!”
Source: Tainted Power - The Complete Series
“Even in uncertainty, small moments of light can guide us forward.”
Source: My Luminous Moments: A memoir of resilience, quiet strength, and the moments of light found in the midst of uncertainty.
“Well, what's she hooked on?"
"I'm not hooked on drugs, Erma."
"Dick," Anakin says, surprising both of us. Erma cackles like that's the funniest thing she's heard all year, and I glare at my jinni. He raises his eyebrows and says, "What? It's true.”
Source: Tainted Power - The Complete Series