You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

When the telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's , I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase...

When a livestock farmer is willing to practice complexity—to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to—he will find he h...

What's possible?' she asked.'Anything,' he said absently. 'But that’s not what I was talking about. Oh, hello, Claire. You’re in good time. I need an extra pair of hands.''As long as I keep them attac...

What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he's out there, and he's clearly not going to leave you alone until one of...

We resonate with one another’s sorrows because we are interconnected. Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I become a center...

Using names with respect and consideration tells a person that you care, are present and engaged, and that you are genuinely interested in making a connection. You make them feel remembered!

Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.

Um... Hazel faltered. You mean you won't... you're not going to- Claim your life? Thantos asked. Well, let's see... He pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death, tapped the screen a few times, an...

To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.

Three mouthfuls. That's all Fenrys took before he laid his head back on the moss and closed his eyes.Rowan couldn't move. None of them moved.Aelin mouthed a short, curt word.Fenrys did not respond. Sh...

They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.

The chick last night marked you, he said, gesturing to my throat. Might be a stalker. You’ll want to prepare to wake up with your balls removed. Raven might cut off my balls, but not because she’s a s...

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world:

That’s no law, just a sword. Happens I got one too.

Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was...

Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.

She flapped her hands, anxious energy coursing through her. How can you be so calm? He got to his feet, unfolding with an easy grace. He held out a hand, his dark eyes focused solemnly on hers. Come w...

Sexually active? Sexually ? Patrick and I hadn't even learned the fine points of kissing yet!I marched on down. 'For your information,' I said from the doorway, as both Dad and Lester jerked to attent...