Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Soon after the news broke about these published conclusions [regarding the evidence of a Palaeolithic human presence on Malta] and their stark contradiction of the orthodox view on Malta's prehistory,...

Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand eternity...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, No future bliss can make up for it, not knowing that Heave...

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty.

Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.

Sometimes, he said, it is necessary to go back before we can move forward.

Sometimes, when there’s been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over. Action slows to a dreamlike glide, frame by frame; the motion of a hand, a sen...

Sometimes, life just sucked.Bite me, she muttered.Okay, where? Deke asked, then went on. Never mind. I've got some enticing ideas of my own.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact: you remember first of all that reason did not abandon you duri...

Sometimes desperation can look a lot like bravery,

Sometimes I have these premonitions and I don't forget them, so I will be prepared when they happen.

Sometimes I felt I would die by wishing it when I went to sleep but I always woke up again and found I was still there. Every morning finding I'm still me, that's hell.Well, get out of hell then! The...

Something occurred to me then. It was all about the unfairness of the pageant. Mary Anne was absolutely right. Myriah really should have won, if this pageant was honestly based on people’s talents and...

Something is indeed returning today - but the conventional wisdom that this is religion making its reappearance is insufficient to satisfy critical inquiries. Nor is it the return of a factor that had...

Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerers, unstoppable in war. Then came the administrators, who bound it all togethe...

Something as straightforward as a difference could lead to something as complex as a breakdown.

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

Somehow, I cannot forgive her for her neglect of me as a child, when I would have clung to her.

Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.