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

I cooked with so many of the greats: Tom Colicchio, Eric Ripert, Wylie Dufresne, Grant Achatz. Rick Bayless taught me not one but two amazing mole sauces, the whole time bemoaning that he never seemed...

I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn’t seem much different from not loving.

How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazingat the radiance of the sun.Jem still had his eyes closed. If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the booth clear off the floor, drop it down again. A pin-wheel of vac...

He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she got to watch him...and realized she never wanted him to go. She wanted him here beside her forever.

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.CLAUDIUS Al...

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

For a moment all was silence, save for her breathing. Triumph raced through Bridget's chest. At last!Then she heard a masculine chuckle behind her.Bridget froze, ice sliding down her spine. The sound...

Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It was the name of heroes.

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.

Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?No, indeed. Chiron looked a lot better now that Apollo had worked some medical magic on him. Rachel may use a guest room...

Astarte has come again, more powerful than before. She possesses me. She lies in wait for me.December 97My cruelty has also returned: the cruelty which frightens me. It lies dormant for months, for ye...

And it was kind of funny to see all these professional fighters unwilling to get within a mile of the female. Then again, if you wanted to survive doing the work they did, accurate risk assessment was...

Alma wrote in depth about laurel, mimosa, and verbena. She wrote about grapes and camellias, about the myrtle orange, about the cosseting of figs, She published under the name A. Whittaker. Neither sh...

Aelin Galathynius smiled at her, hand still outreached. Get up. the princess said.Celaena reached across the earth between them and brushed her fingers against Aelin's.And arose.

Adam gave me a scandalized look. Fraternizing with the enemy! he cried. For shame, wench!

A very magnanimous statement, Gideon, said Magnus.I’m Gabriel.Magnus waved a hand. All Lightwoods look the same to me.

A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa centuries ago...