She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.
She had a lot of nerve signing her note Love. [...] But she sign it that way: Love. What did that mean? Did she mean it, or was it habit? She probably signed all of her letters with Love. Maybe not.
Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly and ill-favored and awkward in bearing. He had a...
Orion brightened. I have an idea.Yes? said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained.Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could sea...
Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a, she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.
One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me.
Not long ago I was much amused by imagining—what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a dozen people at once, or to do some thing awful, something considered the most awful crime in the wor...
Must be nice, I said, caressing the stick as if it might be my buddy and help me win. Money makes life all kinds of nice. Oh, and the way you’re fondling the stick is making me super horny here. I als...
Mr. Rohan, she heard Beatrix ask, are you going to marry my sister? Amelia choked on her tea and set the cup down. She sputtered and coughed into her napkin. Hush, Beatrix, Win murmured. But she’s wea...
Marcela: Hízome el cielo, según vosotros decís, hermosa, y de tal manera, que, sin ser poderosos a otra cosa, a que me améis os mueve mi hermosura, y por el amor que me mostráis, decís, y aun queréis,...
Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within...
Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old bo...
It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.
It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.
It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.
I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to wealth through the souls and bodies of men, spent many years trying to buy back the lo...
I love you, he whispered as he thrust again. And again. Each movement controlled. Each small movement devastating in its effect. I love you.She lost all concept of time. She lost her place and surroun...
I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticip...
How did you find me? he said, anger creasing his brow.I pushed his hair back to run a finger over the scar Al had given him. How do you think? He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awak...
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