Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh, icy crispness. Colours are str...
Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.
Why are you all buttoned up like that? Cameron ran his gaze down the blackberry-shaped buttons of her bodice.[...] You were happy to bare all last night, Cameron said. He let his mallet handler hover...
The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the...
The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly an...
The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!
The finest fury is the most controlled.
The English Puritans were obsessed with the idea of providence, and that word is more ominous to them than it sounds to us. It means care, but it also means control. It does not just mean that God wil...
Según mi experiencia, las emociones no pueden describirse con una sola palabra. «Tristeza», «alegría», «remordimiento», esos términos no me dicen nada. La mejor prueba de que el lenguaje es patriarcal...
Magnus sighed. Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two. He looked sideways at Maryse, wh...
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
I’m saying there is evil in the world, Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.Yardem took the box from the old actor's hands and lifted it to the t...
I’m faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I’m a vampire, Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. If you get in trouble, I’ll be there.Nice, Shane said. I’m warming...
It’s like a haunted house we can’t leave,’ Neil said.A haunted house we’re afraid to leave, Tony thought.
If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.
I don't like having feelings, _Eric Northman
He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.
Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots! I said keeping my voice down. Will you just put a stopper in it?She looked at me and sighed. Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonde...
Don't talk. Alec gestured at him with an expression of vague disgust.Every time I look at you, I keep remembering coming in here and seeing you draped all over my sister.Jace sat up.I didn't hear abou...
And, whoa! He turned to Mr.D. Your the wine dude? No way!Mr.D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. The wine dude?Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I've got your figurine!My figurine.I...