Why can't you place a blessing like that on us? I asked.It only works on wild animals.So it would only affect Percy, Annabeth reasoned.Hey! I protested.

Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum durch Blau und Wolkenflucht. Wie Blüten geh'n Gedanken auf hundert an jedem Tag -- lass' blühen, lass...

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. Miss me?The satyrs fell over themselves nodding and bowing. Oh, yes, very much, sire!Well, I did not miss this place! Dionysus snapped. I bear bad...

The American real-estate industry believed segregation to be a moral principle. As late as 1950, the National Association of Real Estate Boards' code of ethics warned that a Realtor should never be in...

Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried...

She was a cyborg, and she would never go to a ball.

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bu...

Okay, I said. I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house. Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric...

My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an ol...

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me

I don’t believe she sees him as family, Cornelius said.She can see him however she wants. I only care how Rogan sees me.

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

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...

He said he’d heard the sound of one hand clapping. He said, once his mind took in the wondrous no-sound of holy oneness, the empty echo of eternal bliss, he was never the same. He could hear it still,...

For the first time the Don showed annoyance. He poured another glass of anisette and drank it down. He pointed a finger at his son. You want to learn, he said. Now listen to me. A man's first duty is...

But-- she tried not to wail, but her voice crept upward, anyway --I want to go HOME--And I want a palace and a handsome, young prince who has an unnatural lust for old women, and neither of us are goi...

Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both?

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.