Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

My mom is definitely my rock.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Life is short, the art long.

She knows what he means, that they don’t have to touch. the same thing that’s happening to him is happening to her. she doesn’t need to crawl under the table ans suck his dick. too tire to interest ei...

[Enoch Root] hadn't really known what to expect of America. But people here seem to do things—hangings included—with a blunt, blank efficiency that's admirable and disappointing at the same time. Like...

What's with everybody always trying to get rid of the Indians? I said, not really asking for an answer. I thought again of the history-book pictures. Astronomers and brain surgeons. They should have d...

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

We didn't have time to get you an actual haircut, she said. Seriously, did you do it yourself? Maybe without a mirror?I put a hand up to my head self-consciously and said, I had some help from the Gen...

The two princes stared at each other, one gold and one silver, one her twin and one her soul-bonded. There was nothing friendly in the stares, nothing human - two Fae males locked in some unspoken dom...

The look in his eyes turned a little wild. That's the only reason I'm letting you go. If I had any choice--You do, she said Wed can all sit here and let him die. Or you can let Eve go on her wild-ass...

The finest fury is the most controlled.

Percy says be talked to a Nereid in Charleston Harbor!Good for him! Leo yelled back. The Nereid said we should seek help from Chiron’s brothers.What does that mean? The Party Ponies? Leo had never met...

Must be nice, I said, caressing the stick as if it might be my buddy and help me win. Money makes life all kinds of nice. Oh, and the way you’re fondling the stick is making me super horny here. I als...

Maybe you should make me a list of people I can kill and ways in which they’re allowed to die, he said. You are not funny. I’m very funny. Just ask Peaches.

Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.