There was something seriously wrong with the world when a teenage genius couldn't finish a seven-year-old's homework. Not that Conan wasn't trying, but for nearly a week it had been just one thing after another. If it wasn't a body on the way to school, it was one on the way home, or in a case brought to Kogoro, or somebody dropping dead in the ( Read more... )

-"Arthur’s name and his blood were rooted deep in Great Britain, in the land and stones and continuity of civilization. What part of him did not belong to Britain, he had given to Merlin.

A tiny hiccup of laughter bubbled up in his throat. Merlin had left him to go save the world, not knowing that the world was already scheduled to end.-Arthur and ( Read more... )

-"Myde ran through the plan again. It was still too complicated. Ienzo's plans always relied on people acting a certain way, being predictable down to the flick of a wrist or the placement of a ladle. Myde didn't understand how they ever worked-but they did work. If Ienzo said that Nurse Porter would take three steps to the left, she would take ( Read more... )

-"Arthur scrubs his eyes and washes his face before leaving. He also steals the soap off the vanity just because he can."
-Arthur from The Rubicon

-"He wonders, suddenly, how long he's been in love with Dom.

When his memory doesn't supply an immediate answer, he decides he'd rather not know. Too damn long, apparently."
-Arthur Fog's Rolling In

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-"He’s killed them all before, in dreams. He’s always gentle."
-Arthur from You're Loading Up Your Gun

-"“I’d never hurt you,” Eames says, and the terrible part is, he means it.

“You wouldn’t mean to,” Arthur amends for him. “You’d do it anyway.”"
-Eames and Arthur from You've Got the Touch

-""Good idea, or best idea?" he asks Arthur ( Read more... )

-""What if he never went to Italy in the first place?" Lavi asked.

"It will just be another obstacle to overcome," Bookman said.

"Is that a nice way of saying we're basically fucked?" inquired Lavi.

"Basically.""
-Lavi and Bookman from Bookman, chapter 38

-"“I think maybe… it’s worth it, to take the hit? Better to get hurt, when you know it can’t stop you for long, and just keep fighting for what you want?” Yet again, it isn’t trusting that Joshua won’t hurt him, but trusting that it’s going to be worth it, that Shibuya’s important enough that Neku can take the crap and work it out somehow. So now ( Read more... )

( So yesterday by Scott Westerfeld (Spoilers) )

"Ron, you know it's not that simple. Not after what happened today. The whole bloody world isn't in danger of getting possessed by…him. Does this friend of yours matter so much that you'd give your family's lives?"
There was an even longer silence. And then… "I'd give him mine." - Harry Potter and the Battle of Wills by Jocelyn, www.fanfiction.net/ ( Read more... )

-"“I won’t hurt you,” Nick says, not sure if he’s reminding himself or reassuring Jamie, but he apparently finds it of some comfort anyway, because he looks at Nick with wary eyes before touching Nick’s finger with the tip of his tongue."
-Nick and Jamie from Bloody Appeal

-"A mix of emotions flitted across Alan's face, and Nick knew that he was ( Read more... )