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Holding her gaze, he sheathed his short sword and pulled the gauntlet off his left hand with his teeth. He held out his bare hand to her.She glanced at the proffered hand before laying her palm in his...

Elizabeth Hoyt

Holding her gaze, he sheathed his short sword and pulled the gauntlet off his left hand with his teeth. He held out his bare hand to her.She glanced at the proffered hand before laying her palm in his...

Elizabeth Hoyt

Tags: duke of midnight, duke of wakefield, first meeting, ghost of st giles, hands, maximus batten, mystery

However it—or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces—can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform ev...

Richard Bauckham

However it—or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces—can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform ev...

Richard Bauckham

Tags: christ myth theory, christian gnosticism, christian history, christian mystics, church, conversion of paul, epistles, epistles of paul, facts, gentile

I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly p...

Elizabeth Gaskell

I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly p...

Elizabeth Gaskell

Tags: exhaustion, power, powerlessness, tried

I dispelled my invisibility for a few seconds in his full view, a finger resting provocatively on my lower lip, giving him a come-hither look under a streetlight. His jaw and the bottle of Żubrówka dr...

Kevin Hearne

I dispelled my invisibility for a few seconds in his full view, a finger resting provocatively on my lower lip, giving him a come-hither look under a streetlight. His jaw and the bottle of Żubrówka dr...

Kevin Hearne

Tags: granuaile, hunted, kevin hearne, oberon, philosophy

¡Y cuando exhales el último suspiro, sólo entonces, te darás cuenta de que tu vida no ha sido más que una minúscula gota en un océano infinito!Y sin embargo, ¿qué es un océano sino una multitud de got...

David Mitchell

¡Y cuando exhales el último suspiro, sólo entonces, te darás cuenta de que tu vida no ha sido más que una minúscula gota en un océano infinito!Y sin embargo, ¿qué es un océano sino una multitud de got...

David Mitchell

Tags: humanidad, humanity, spanish

You know what you were and it wasn’t a job. His words taunted me, offering a glimmer of hope. Yet, his words on the driveway less than two months ago lingered in my thoughts. Why are you bothering me?...

Bijou Hunter

You know what you were and it wasn’t a job. His words taunted me, offering a glimmer of hope. Yet, his words on the driveway less than two months ago lingered in my thoughts. Why are you bothering me?...

Bijou Hunter

Tags: judd and tawny, not a job

[Adam picks up the camera] I have to get a shot of this.The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces. The accompanyi...

Sarah Dessen

[Adam picks up the camera] I have to get a shot of this.The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces. The accompanyi...

Sarah Dessen

Tags: auden, camera, eli, photo

But as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—...

Philip K. Dick

But as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—...

Philip K. Dick

Tags: death, degradation, dying, oblivion

When we make ethical judgments, we must go beyond a personal or sectional point of view and take into account the interests of all those affected, unless we have sound ethical grounds for doing otherw...

Peter Singer

When we make ethical judgments, we must go beyond a personal or sectional point of view and take into account the interests of all those affected, unless we have sound ethical grounds for doing otherw...

Peter Singer

Tags: interests, utilitarianism

Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone.Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who wouldalways get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.

V.C. Andrews

Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone.Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who wouldalways get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.

V.C. Andrews

Tags: changed, doll, fair, fragile, fragility, gone, made, obstacles, porcelain, she

Where, indeed? Captain Vincent Reed had been born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, of northern parents who were stationed there by the telegraph company. He had attended West Point and he thought he...

James A. Michener

Where, indeed? Captain Vincent Reed had been born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, of northern parents who were stationed there by the telegraph company. He had attended West Point and he thought he...

James A. Michener

Tags: native americans, slaughter

Whose little boy are you?

James Baldwin

Whose little boy are you?

James Baldwin

Tags: black, church, coming of age, epiphany, god, harlem, institution, james baldwin, racism, religion

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you start...

Terry Pratchett

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you start...

Terry Pratchett

Tags: change, discworld, growth, travel

No one will ever harm you. Not ever. They may attempt to do so, but they will not survive. He took a deep breath before his confession. I was not aware that you were not Carpathian. I was not capable...

Christine Feehan

No one will ever harm you. Not ever. They may attempt to do so, but they will not survive. He took a deep breath before his confession. I was not aware that you were not Carpathian. I was not capable...

Christine Feehan

Tags: jacques and shea, up what not that, you are my salvation

Now and then a pair of eyes would burn at us out of the dark ahead. I knew that they were the eyes of a cow–a poor dear stoic old cow with a cud, standing on the highway shoulder, for there wasn't any...

Robert Penn Warren

Now and then a pair of eyes would burn at us out of the dark ahead. I knew that they were the eyes of a cow–a poor dear stoic old cow with a cud, standing on the highway shoulder, for there wasn't any...

Robert Penn Warren

Tags: cow

OBAMA’S FRUSTRATION WITH HIS critics boiled over during a lengthy trip to Asia in the spring of 2014. In the region, the trip was seen as another carefully designed U.S. effort to counter China. We’d...

Ben Rhodes

OBAMA’S FRUSTRATION WITH HIS critics boiled over during a lengthy trip to Asia in the spring of 2014. In the region, the trip was seen as another carefully designed U.S. effort to counter China. We’d...

Ben Rhodes

Tags: china, foreign policy, international relations, usa

Oh Lord! Don't, don't start rhapsodising over that cod again, darling! I can't bear it and I know you are going to! She laughed.You don't understand. It was because it was so typically English.

Georgette Heyer

Oh Lord! Don't, don't start rhapsodising over that cod again, darling! I can't bear it and I know you are going to! She laughed.You don't understand. It was because it was so typically English.

Georgette Heyer

Tags: homesick

Oh, yes, she's unusual! he said bitterly. She blurts out whatever may come into her head; she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another; she's happier grooming horses and hobnobbing with stabl...

Georgette Heyer

Oh, yes, she's unusual! he said bitterly. She blurts out whatever may come into her head; she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another; she's happier grooming horses and hobnobbing with stabl...

Georgette Heyer

Tags: love, regency romance, unusual

Intelligent and cultivated people of either sex will never limit themselves to communing with their own households. Men and women equally, when they have the range of interests that real cultivation g...

Edith Wharton

Intelligent and cultivated people of either sex will never limit themselves to communing with their own households. Men and women equally, when they have the range of interests that real cultivation g...

Edith Wharton

Tags: gender roles, intelligence

It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the re...

Umberto Eco

It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the re...

Umberto Eco

Tags: detective stories, guilt, paradoxes, readership, responsibility, writing
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