There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.

There was both love and despair in his voice.He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love hadn't changed that...

The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster,

The remaining chain swung down, he wrenched the door out and he was free. The last thing he heard behind him was the oncoming stomp of running feet.Now began flight, that excruciating accompaniment to...

Tell me when you want to pick it up again.Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight.I'll do that. Lunch?

So she steeled herself. I have never told anyone this story. No one in the world knows it. But it's mine, she said, blinking past the burning in her eyes, and it's time for me to tell it.Rowan leaned...

She shall be my queen, and I her most ardent admirer and protector. A new standard of love shall be established for the ages. Time will clarify my devotion! On this I would gladly stake my very soul!

She murmured, You're unfinished.Aye, precisely.I need to go.When she moved to get up, he shoved her against his side and slapped her arse to keep her there. You stay with me.She snapped, What do you w...

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...

Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.

Ma'am,' Augustus said, nodding toward her, 'your daughter's car has just been deservedly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.' After wa...

Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded...

It's possible to name everything and to destroy the world.

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civ...

If what you sell doesn’t help me then why are you knocking on my door?

I would hear them say on the radio, that we need to hang them once they have been convicted for murder. I don’t think that some of them should have ever reached that stage. If we had prevented them fr...

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

He felt like the world didn’t want him, like he was born hated, and he was. He was smart, he was funny, he’d never done a bad deed in his life, born innocent just like all the rest of us… but he was b...

For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man.To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service.Bravo. Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine f...

Dr. Webb says that life is so full of complications and confusion that humans oftentimes find it hard to cope. This leads to people throwing themselves in front of trains and spending all their money...