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...

Stories can save us.

Some toy you give, he said, gritty-voiced, and now the two tears in the corners of his eyes began to slide down his cheeks.You remembered the day Daddy said he would give me this when I became a docto...

Sit yourself down, Joan instructed as we reached the the fag-fogged, gin-scented den that was nominally her sitting room.

She´s mine, broken or not, he said darkly.

Now we know that man is more than two million years old,' exlaimed Heyerdahl, 'it would be very strange if our ancestors lived like primitive food collectors for all that time until suddenly they star...

Not like would I write,Not like if I might,Not like at his best,Not like or the rest,Like myself, however small,Like myself, or not at all.

Nope, you stick out like a fart in a church.

Mrs. P.? Oh no. She’s the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if there’s one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, it’s t...

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The ap...

Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one

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...

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...

In a deep voice, he called her name. Madeline. Still she ignored him. Taking her hand, he lifted it to his lips and, at the last minute, he turned it and kissed her wrist.That got her attention. She l...

If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think ur kewl,' I'm going to kill you.

I'm trying... How could I put it? I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember. I stopped, then continued: so that I can remember without the pain killing meAnd the days were stac...

I started to walk away, but she [Clarisse] called out, Percy?Yeah?When you, uh, had that vision about your friends...You were one of them, I promised, Just don't tell anybody, okay? Or I'de have to ki...

Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand), the first single from Eat Me, Drink Me, features a video filmed by Titanic director James Cameron. In it, Manson croons to Wood, who – with bobbe...

He was drowning in want, his control shattering like glass blown out of a window by a blast concussion. He could almost imagine he heard the shards raining to the ground beneath them. The broken piece...