When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

You could run, and I could stay to fend them off, the vampire offered. For some reason, I feel amazingly refreshed. He swung an amused look at Declan that made him grind his teeth. And it seems I'm qu...

Yes, my great villan, my darling god. I will be as sober as a stone carving, just as soon as I can

To make a tarte of strawberyes, wrote Margaret Parker in 1551, take and strayne theym with the yolkes of four eggs, and a little whyte breade grated, then season it up with suger and swete butter and...

The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly, like the universe. It had logic. It was dependable. U...

Some things are private. I mean, we're grown-ups now. You don't share everything.

Sebastian looked alarmed at her stiffness, but Eric took it in and chuckled. Riding astride would have been easier, he said. You put twice the strain on yourself with that unnatural position.Oh, I kno...

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, which they can therefore recount as God H...

It didn't help, reminding herself that if she were back in Blackpool she'd spend the afternoon aching to be in London. It just made her feel that she'd never be happy anywhere.

I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was there. Sometimes it looked like me. At other times, I could see someone similar but different in t...

How did you find me? he said, anger creasing his brow.I pushed his hair back to run a finger over the scar Al had given him. How do you think? He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awak...

His fantasies were nurturing, not predatory. If he could have Jess, he would feed her. Laughable, antique, confusingly paternal, he longed to nourish her with clementines, and pears in season, fresh w...

He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew the house had all the percentages. And beneath his pessimism, his bleak conviction th...

For the humanists, whatever authority Scripture might possess derived from the original texts in their original languages, rather than from the Vulgate, which was increasingly recognized as unreliable...

A very magnanimous statement, Gideon, said Magnus.I’m Gabriel.Magnus waved a hand. All Lightwoods look the same to me.

So I leaned down and put my mouth on him.He jerked at the contact with a barked, Shit, and I laughed around him, even as I took him deeper into my mouth.His hands were now fisted in the sheets, white-...

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Sometimes in the great soundtrack of our lives there are no words, there are only emotions; I believe this is why God gave us classical music.