Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

You’ve got a lot of responsibility now, Jace said to Julian. You’ll have to make sure Emma winds up with a guy who deserves her. Julian was strangely white-faced. Maybe he was feeling the effects of t...

When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off in the course of our brief wrestle. It looked so pathetic there by itself without an owner, it look...

Two-thirty comes during Testifying. It's Janine, telling about how she was gang-raped at fourteen and had an abortion.But whose fault was it? Aunt Helena says, holding up one plump finger. Her fault,...

This cat is looking at me with judgment.He’s not, said Jules. That’s just his face.You look at me the same way, Mark said, glancing at Julian. Judgy face.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one nich...

The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called worthwhile goals. Money, fame, powe...

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Musel jsem se dívat na průzory do plynových komor a sám sledovat proces smrti... Znovu a znovu se mě ptali, jak se já a moji lidé na tyto operace můžeme nepřetržitě dívat a jak jsme schopni to vydržet...

LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face...

I think it's 'only polite' that my wife should let me know when she's entertaining a male visitor, furthermore one that has shared her bed.

Crossing the room, he stopped infront of me. I'm not going to bite.That's good.Unless you want me to, He said with a devilish grin.

At the door, Audrey called, Are you coming?No, just breathing hard, love. He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, Oh, my God!

As that fucking chandelier twinkled overhead, Blay said roughly, I'm still in love with him.Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed a the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint...

And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about that, even as she thwarts her own insight by insisting that it i...

. . and I imagine that, though cold and haughty in her general demeanor, and even exacting in her requirements, she has strong affections for those who can reach them . . .