In Nietzsche's usage, the word 'Christianity' does not even refer primarily to the religion; using it like a code word, he is thinking more of a particular religio-metaphysically influenced dispositio...

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

I am Gregori, Jacques. Gregori’s voice was power itself, yet soft and soothing. A healer for our people. Shea was lying across Jacques, her head on his shoulder, her eyes closed. She groaned— a low, h...

His heart stilled at the mere thought of her hurting herself.'He was a fool.' Of course this debate harkened back to her recent capture. To her near rape. What she must have thought when she'd been ki...

He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire of his...

He comes into my city, he throws away my people, he orders me around like I'm his servant and now this? How dare he!I sighed. How dare he! came out. Could Does he know who I am? be far behind?I'm not...

He began on the hidden hooks to her bodice as she stood still, her breasts rising and falling tremblingly beneath his fingers. It was like undressing a wild animal. Or an angel who had consented to st...

Curran shrugged and pulled me back to him. 'You don't pick the family you're born into. You pick the one you make. I already chose my mate and glued her ass to the chair to make sure she knew it.

Curran let our a ragged snarl and punched the other wall. It burst and the entire wreck of the house came down in a fountain of dust. He shook his hand, his knuckles bloody.Bricks are hard, I told him...

Committing to Nick, feeling safe with Nick, being happy with Nick, made me realize that there was a Real Amy in there, and she was so much better, more interesting and complicated and challenging, tha...

Charlie?''Uh-huh?''Do you like me?''Uh-huh.''You know what I mean?''Uh-huh.''Are you nervous?''Uh-huh.'

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

Daniel said, his voice low. Rafe sputtered a laugh. She glowered at him, then at Corey, who'd joined them, grinning as he heard. Even Daniel had to wipe away a smile. she said. Daniel said. I said....

In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.

I actually get quite sad when I smell bacon.

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

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.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.