To whatever end? she breathed. Rowan followed her, as he had his entire life, long before they had ever met, before their souls had sparked into existence. To whatever end, Fireheart.

This is the deepest wish of my heart?Sure, Magnus said.Your father, proud of you. You, the hero of the hour. Me, loving you. Everyone approving of you.Alec looked over at Jace.Okay, what about the Jac...

The story of Psyche finally made sense to him- why a mortal girl would be so afraid. Why would she risk breaking the rules to look the god of love in the face, because she feared he might be a monster...

The consequence of the duchess of Magnus is so great, even arriving at a ball on your arm, Mr. Knight, cannot damage it. She smiled as she made the claim, as if she were amused by her own temerity. Un...

Tell me when you want to pick it up again.Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight.I'll do that. Lunch?

She heard nothing but experienced a sensation that prickled along her spine like a warm touch caressing her skin. Slowly, with the care of prey beneath a predator's survey, she turned her head- and me...

Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.

Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura, the Duke said. I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.

No matter how it seems now, I must confess: I loved him. I do not think that I will ever love anyone like that again. And this might be a great relief if I did not also know that, when the knife has f...

Naturally, Coach Hedge went ballistic; but Percy found it hard to take the satyr seriously since he was barely five feet tall.Never in my life! Coach bellowed, waving his bat and knocking over a plate...

It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you you do. But you know what you're really doing?...

If you prefer, I can acquire a windowless creeper van, and we can huddle in it and eat greasy take out.

If the lot of you survives, Curran will flay the skin off your backs, Doolittle said.That's what I always love about you, Doctor. Raphael grinned. You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers an...

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

I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting ant...

I said: ‘All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant.

I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, wh...

I don’t care, Nevada said. I want blue lilacs.And I want to fly away from here, but that wouldn’t happen anytime soon, would it?Anyway, I have to get back to the office, Nevada said. Text me if anythi...

He bound the land together, and made of seven kingdoms, one.

Hay mujeres que inspiran deseos de vencerlas o de gozarlas; pero ésta infunde el deseo de morir lentamente ante sus ojos.