“Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“Bud's relationship with the female sex was governed by a gallimaufry of primal impulses, dim suppositions, deranged theories, overheard scraps of conversation, half-remembered pieces of bad advice, and fragments of no-doubt exaggerated anecdotes that amounted to rank superstition.”
― The Diamond Age
― The Diamond Age
“Control yourself, she told herself forcibly. Become someone who can deal with this. She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.”
― The Emperor's Soul
― The Emperor's Soul
“The mixed woods of Germany were the sort that deserved a good savoring—no, a savouring, with a British u in there for the sake of decadence, as colours are somehow more vibrant to me than mere colors.”
― Hunted
― Hunted
“Under the table, Greebo sat and washed himself. Occasionally he burped.
Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave and the crypt, but never managed it from the cat.”
― Witches Abroad
Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave and the crypt, but never managed it from the cat.”
― Witches Abroad
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