Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

You will leave her alone, Gabriel said. One way or another. That sounds like a death threat, Walsh. Then you lack imagination.

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

She smiled as she poured tea into his cup. I hope you find your rooms comfortable?Quite. He took a too-hasty sip of tea and scalded his tongue.The view is to your liking?He had a view of a brick wall....

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someon...

On the third day, she smelled the fruit as soon as she came in. She followed the scent to the kitchen, and the peach was radiant, dusky rose and gold, its skin so plush she thought her fingertip might...

Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.

Jonas went and sat beside them while his father untied Lily's hair ribbons and combed her hair. He placed one hand on each of their shoulders. With all of his being he tried to give each of them a pie...

Je voulais vous exposer mon livre aussi succinctement que possible; mais je vois qu'il me faudra y joindre encore quantité d'explications verbales. Mon exposé exigera donc au moins dix soirées d'après...

I--buy, and I sell.You're a thief.

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 was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical,...

I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To my beloved Hector,' and I thought, by God she's cheating on me, and has sent me the wrong lette...

I prefer feeling insignificant, said Jess. I don't believe that.I didn't say worthless, I said insignificant, as in the grand scheme of things.But why?Because humans have such a complex. We're so self...

Here had lived an elder race, to which we look back with disquietude. The country which we visit at week-ends was really a home to it, and the graver sides of life, the deaths, the partings, the yearn...

He put the book down. As you wish. He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass, but suddenly he stepped in dangerously close. Welcome home. I’m glad you made it. There is cof...

Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.

Gregori, Mikhail reminded him softly, if the child is your lifemate, and you do something careless, you are condemning her to death. Keep that in mind when you enter this place of madness. Gregori’s s...