People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.-
Murder, other than in the most strict forensic sense, is never soluble. That dark human clot can never melt into a lucid, clear suspension. Our detective fiction tells us otherwise: everything is just...
My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear (Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!) signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window...
One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.
In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.
It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon.
It pains me to think how much you are worth now.I can't tell you that. If you can count it, you haven't got any.
It was somehow fitting that the true beginning and the end of a life occurred in the same sacred house. Anne would have praised God and Emily would have laughed. On this day, their presence was fully...
Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.
Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to...
Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're...
She flew in, all fiery flashing eyes and flushed cheeks, her bosom heaving beneath black wool.She was magnificent.Tell them to let her go! Séraphine ordered him imperiously. Tell them to let her go .S...
She had started driving past his apartment to see whether or not his car was out front. She had looked up his phone number, and twice she had called his apartment from the pay phone in school, knowing...
She is too perfect to be known by fragments. No mean brick shall be a specimen of the building of my palace.
She led them to their pallets, again encircled by other pallets. She sat down, sighing at her aching muscles, and caught his gaze. You may, er, wrap your arms around me if that will make you feel I am...
Las cosas cambian. Y los amigos se van. Y la vida no se detiene para nadie.
Look at Columbus, or Magellan: looking back, historians call you an explorer, but at the time, you‘re just lost.
Lucien had been prepared to take me against my will. Fae males were territorial, dominant, arrogant—but the ones in the Spring Court … something had festered in their training. Because I knew—deep in...
In 2007, I hit 50 home runs. That was pretty cool. I never thought I'd be able to do that. At the time, I didn't even think it was that big of a deal for some reason. But now, looking back, I realize...
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