The prospect of going home is very appealing.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

You both passed out, Percy said. I don’t know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were…sharing?Sharing, Ella agreed. She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with he...

What do you think about America?Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

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

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and...

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.And you...

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: and One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotional...

The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours.

The male I fell in love with was you. It was you, who knew pain as I did, and who walked me through it, back to the light. Maeve didn't understand that. That even if she could create this perfect worl...

The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time when Earth was teeming with simple, single-celled or...

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.

Seriously? Kissing her right now is what we need to be doing when we have pissed-off aliens on us?Kissing her is always the right thing to do.

Nebulat ergo cogito.

My broad conclusion is that an advanced global seafaring civilization existed during the Ice Age, that it mapped the earth as it looked then with stunning accuracy, and that it had solved the problem...

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my name, I might have called his name - but I did not. There you have the dif...

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.