“He watched her, listened to her, and knew she was truly asleep. He kissed her forehead and found the act pleasing for its own sake. And, he admitted as he licked his lips, it was enjoyable for other reasons. Meg wasn't bitable, but he really did like the taste of her.”
― Written in Red
― Written in Red
“The girl might have an unsettling crying problem, but she was pure steel.”
― The Demon's Lexicon
― The Demon's Lexicon
“It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.”
― The Penultimate Peril
― The Penultimate Peril
“But I don’t want to be grateful. I’m tired of being kicked about like a pebble, and told that I have to be happy that it’s no worse. I’ve had enough. It’s time the pebble kicked back.”
― Fly Trap
― Fly Trap
“Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed—if that one writer had not, a hundred times or a thousand, made the choice to write.
You’re going to be that one writer, one day, for somebody you may never meet. Nobody can write that book you’re going to write—that book that will light up and change up a life—but you.”
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You’re going to be that one writer, one day, for somebody you may never meet. Nobody can write that book you’re going to write—that book that will light up and change up a life—but you.”
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