Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

… my joints ache with fatigue, my dried up body trembles toward its own destruction in turmoils of which I dare not become fully conscious, in my head are astonishing convulsions.

[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal.The kid lifted his eyebrows.My mouth is partially paralyzed, I said. It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. T...

Why do you believe he calls you a 'whelp,' young man? Could it be because you're so like him that he's not certain whether to feel pride or to shoot you and put the world out of its misery?

When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw some of those Indians for the first time; we got directions from them and reached the top of the mo...

We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden from Him or incomprehensible to Him.

They call me Baelon the Brave, the prince told his wife at her bedside, but I would sooner fight a dozen battles than do what you’ve just done.

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't kn...

The other person always has a point, Listen to each other, and you'll hear it.

That's the best thing I can think of. Having a good hold on your arse always makes me feel steady.

She'd taken ten years off his life, frightening him the way she had, and now he'd easily subtracted another ten by kissing her. If he spent much more time with Jenna Campbell, he'd be dead inside a we...

She gasped again and opened blue eyes lit with erotic mischief. Are you trying to steal the reins from me?Even with his penis buried deep within her, even moments from climax, he arched an eyebrow. Yo...

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

Oh, my dear! I’m afraid you’ve mistakenme for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus and Remus, thousands of years ago. But you’re so kind to think I look as young as the 19...

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

It all jibed, and the books would close on Jasper as death by misadventure. Unofficially, Eve labeled it death by stupidity, but there wasn't a place on the sheet for that particular observation. - Lt...

How can I put this? There's a king of gap between what I think is real and what's really real. I get this feeling like some kind of little something-or-other is there, somewhere inside me... like a bu...

He raises his hand to my face again and I allow the touch. His fingers slide along my jawline and the warmth of his caresses radiates past my skin and into my bloodstream. Pleasing goose bumps rise on...

He appeared to have pushed down the coverlet and undone the first few buttons of his banyan. Sweat had pooled below his throat, just at the junction of his collarbones, and she could see a few black h...

Did you come here alone, Kitten?''No, Maria is with me. She is my maid, and oh, I never knew how much she liked me until to-day, for she never seemed to like me at all! But- but she came to me when Sh...