Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.

[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine...

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

Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been conceived or born. In the algebra of love a child is the symbol of the magical sum of two...

When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark on the way to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cur...

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

We do not admire their president.We know why the White House is white.We do not find their children irresistible;We do not agree they should inherit the earth.

We are one now, little brother, you and I, Sebastian said. We are one.

They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.

The stairs aren't challenging enough anymore? he asked.Antonio laughed. Challenge has nothing to do with it, Jer. I'd say it's the big bad wolf huffing and puffing at her door up there.

The cooking was invigorating, joyous. For Julia, the cooking fulfilled the promises that Le Cordon Bleu had made but never kept. Where Le Cordon Bleu always remained rooted in the dogma of French cuis...

The book was commonly known as the Buggre Alle This Bible. The lengthy compositor's error, if such it may be called, occurs in the book of Ezekiel, chapter 48, verse five.2. And bye the border of Dan,...

Percy says be talked to a Nereid in Charleston Harbor!Good for him! Leo yelled back. The Nereid said we should seek help from Chiron’s brothers.What does that mean? The Party Ponies? Leo had never met...

In the dull twilight of the winter afternoon she came to the end of a long road which had begun the night Atlanta fell. She had set her feet upon that road a spoiled, selfish and untried girl, full of...

In saving Tamlin, I was to damn myself.

I will do anything to saveLaurana, he swore beneath his breath, clenching his fist. Anything! If it means sacrificing myself or—He stopped. Would he really give up Berem? Would he really trade the Eve...

I snatched the paper away from Dopey.Hey, he yelled. I was reading that!Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try, I said.

I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. Is this okay? I whisper. Are you okay?His reply is anguished. Honest. I love you.

He imagines the plane exploding as it touches down, ignited by one of its glints, in a ball of red flame shadowed in black like you see on TV all the time, and he is shocked to find within himself, im...