The lawyer was a short, ugly, little man. He stood about three feet taller than his desk’s two foot eight inch frame and he had dark eyes. Lois couldn’t tell if they were black or an extremely dark br...

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

Straightaway, she'd called to the guard, Oh, boys? She'd sauntered to the glass in only her black lace bra and panties. I need some assistance, When they slowed, agog, she'd purred, Can one of you hel...

Richard had sold Gillian's piano. He'd offered to ship it out to California, but neither Jess nor Emily played. Emily had quit her lessons at Streets of Laredo and Jess only got as far as The Teddy Be...

Orion brightened. I have an idea.Yes? said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained.Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could sea...

Of course, in television's presentation of the news of the day, we may see the Now...this mode of discourse in it's boldest and most embarrassing form. For there, we are presented not only with fragme...

Not knowing is half the fun, Aphrodite said, Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry!

Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.

Leo didn't usually think of the ukulele as a sad instrument. (Pathetic, sure. But not sad.) Yet the tune Apollo strummed was so melancholy it broke Leo's feels.

It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.

In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped.

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the Fuck you signs in the world. It's impossible.

I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin. He shook the hair out of his face. I'm not inte...

Hi. How are you feeling?Downright perky, thanks for asking.She smiled a little until she came up to him. With her night vision, she saw that he was lying on top of the covers with only a pair of boxer...

Demon pox, said Sophie. Mr. Lightwood's got it, has had for years, and it'll kill him in a right couple of months if he doesn't get the cure. And Mortmain said he can get it for him. The room exploded...

I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were the...

To a very great extent, it's the fast-food industry that really industrialized our agriculture - that drove the system to one variety of chicken grown very quickly in confinement, to the feedlot syste...

We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.