Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

—¿Me querrás siempre?—No tengo ni la menor idea.—Pues yo a ti te querré siempre.—Eso está bien. ¿Podremos meternos por ahí?—No, no creo... Tú eres Apolo y yo soy Marsyas. Acabarás dejándome.—Eso de Ap...

Well now, the scholar went on, I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their c...

We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror...

They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains. Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us.My Sookie hid a corpse?I don't think you can...

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people were...

Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54)

Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just outside Sunnyvale. It was great, he recalled. I had been listening to a lot of Bach. All of a sudden...

If I fought for them and was crippled, they would all say nice things,and then they would replace me and forget I was ever there. You would stay with me. You would take care of me, because you love me...

I think of Madoc, dozing away upstairs, all his dreams of murder. I think of Oriana and Oak being forced apart for years. I think of Cardan and how he will hate me. I think of what it means to make my...

I love you so much, so incredibly much, he went on, and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm th...

I guess it would be too much to ask to let Savannah bite my neck. Gary made an attempt at humor. He was rubbing his neck, every Dracula movie he had ever seen going through his mind. A low growl rumbl...

I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.

I can smell her all over you. You need some help taming her?Let me break her in for you.

He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and is now ever-ready for a new encounter, a fresh-experience, always eager to set off into the unknown t...

He had asked Hagen one final question. Does this man have real balls?Hagen translated the question properly in his mind. Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing a...

Have you heard a story where the victim of a kidnap falls in love with the kidnapper?

Another extraordinary similarity concerns the presence of Seven Sages in both the Sumerian and Vedic traditions. Most ancient societies, I concede, had their sages or seers or wise men -- in India the...

After the dedication, Eleanor saw Bernard privately, probably at her own request. He came prepared to offer more spiritual comfort, thinking that she too might be suffering qualms of conscience over V...