One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the were jealous. The se...

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...

My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knittin...

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

If you need help bark like a dog. - Gendry. That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help. - Arya

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.

I will not have them punished, Artemis said. I will have them rewarded. If we destroy heroes who do us a great favor, then we are no better than the Titans. If this is Olympian justice, I will have no...

I used to write poetry when I was younger, Jess said. She had kept a notebook by her bed, in case some line or image came to her in her dreams, but she had always been a sound sleeper, and no Xanadus...

Hell, I think there were studies that said fucking was good for your heart. Laughing is good for your heart too and there are no downsides to it. I think I’d rather watch a comedy. Fair enough, but yo...

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

Go ahead. Insult me. His eyebrows go up. I don't take commands from mortals, he says with his customary cruel smile.

Father . . . , Gabriel began. Father is a worm.Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against his temples. He was not looking...

Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones. -John Gill

I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Seaweed BrainWise Girl

We have become used to obstructionist ideas. In the name of modernisation we are unconsciously hindering the natural flow of life. The fact that we are irritated, depressed, and distressed speaks volu...

I have being saved by the grace of God.I am a child of God.The Lord's great favour and mighty power is upon me.