Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

As Freud noted: A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken. . . . in ambivalent attachmen...

At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were arms rising heavenwards, , or else the trunk would twist and turn like...

Ehlena?- sim?- Não me entenda mal.Ela respirou fundo e ele viu que seus ombros nus se esticavam.- Certo. Vou tentar.-Se você continuar vindo aqui. Sendo que é - Houve uma pausa - Vou me apaixonar por...

A Styrofoam egg carton caught his eye. He opened it and found a single silver orb with little blinking red lights. This is cool, too! He dropped it into his backpack.Dan, no!What? They've got plenty o...

A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats.

Al fin y al cabo, un hombre es sólo lo que ha decidido hacer o no hacer.

Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.

Almost everything about Afghanistan was troubling Mullen. As Obama was giving intense focus on the war, Mullen was feeling more personal responsibility. Afghanistan had been marked by 'incredible negl...

And second, I don't think there's much of a market for your particular brand of psychology. So not true.Butch, you and I just beat the crap out of each other.You started it. And actually, it would be...

Beyond his volition, Vane's gaze lowered to her lips, to the soft rose-tinted curves he now knew so well. Their shape was etched in his mind, their taste imprinted on his senses.Patience's lids flutte...

Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.

Can we perceive those inorganic beings, don Juan? I asked. We certainly can, he replied. Sorcerers do it at will. Average people do it, but they don't realize that they're doing it because they are no...

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Do you mean to tell me’, he growled a the Dursleys, ‘that this boy- this boy! - knows nothin’ abou’ - about ANYTHING?’Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his...

I was definitely one of those people who fell for the fat-free cookies and chips that are loaded with sugar and calories.