Psychic is the new normal.

A mind can bleed a heart to death.

No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of realit...

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

The association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the nursery, as shabby or old-fashioned furnitur...

Yorick's Used and Rare Books had a small storefront on Channing but a deep interior shaded by tall bookcases crammed with history, poetry, theology, antiquated anthologies. There was no open wall spac...

The obvious definition of a monarchy seems to be that of a state, in which a single person, by whatsoever name he may be distinguished, is entrusted with the execution of the laws, the management of t...

Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was...

My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.

Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.

It’s not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one’s sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.

It's mechanical, Leo said. Maybe a doorway to the dwarfs' secret lair? Ooooo! shrieked a nearby voice. Secret lair? I want a secret lair! yelled another voice from above....If we had a secret lair, sa...

Get up, brat, and for the lord's sake, smooth your hair! You look the most complete romp!'Miss Wantage did her best to comply with this direction, but without any marked degree of success. Fortunately...

Are you two you know? Jacob pointed at us. I didn't get a chance to answer. Cam spun me around and kissed me, right there between the two buildings. It was no friendly peck on the lips. When our tong...

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who...

Aelin's hand wavered slightly over his wound. What's your shield made of, then?Fenrys tried and failed to shrug. But Gavriel muttered from where he worked on the still-whimpering pirate, Arrogance.Ael...

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.