Tanya Huff

I'll send three of Harnet's Di'taken. I have it on good authority that they think the sun shines out of my ass."Pole leaned forwards just enough to bring the major into his line of sight.Pole - "All of them?" Torrin - "Some of them are officers and thus blinded by the sun shining out of their own asses."Pole - "Did you just say that?"Torrin - "Yeah," Torrin offered him her hand. "Get over it.

Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely?

He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.

All things are within the Circle. That is the very Center of what we believe. If all things are not enclosed, then there is no Circle.

Peter." The fine hair along her spine rising, Vicky could feel the power in a name. This is who you are, it said. Come back to us.

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.