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Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.

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I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him." "Thwart?" Sarissa asked."Thwart." I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by...more

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You have a visitor, my lord." I frowned, "What?" "That is why I came in here. You have a visitor waiting for you." I stood up, exasperated. "Why didn'...more

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What's with that?” Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. “Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie?

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I poke at my skull with a finger. It didn't feel soft or anything. I didn't feel insane. But if you'd really lost it, would you have enough left to kn...more

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The demon trapped in the summoning circle screamed, slamming its crablike pincers against the unseen barrier, hurling its chitinous shoulders from sid...more

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Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

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Ease off the martyr throttle.

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...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

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Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

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I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore.

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They'd paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. Maybe it's my lack of fashion sense talki...more

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Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

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Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?""Because they're real.""How do you know?""The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

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As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms.""Eh?""Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.