The true power lies with you.

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.

The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abominable orange-red, pear-shaped, plum tomato he had obtained that same morning from Colonel Cathcart, still lying o...

That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back to one present and physical whole, whose blood was the proof of her tangibility.

So Aedion leaned in, and kissed Lysandra, kissed the woman who should have been his wife, his mate, one last time. I love you. Sorrow filled her beautiful face. And I you. She gestured to the western...

She shook off his grip. I am what I am, and I don't particularly care what you think of me. Well, I care what you think of me. I care enough that I stayed at this disgusting party for you. And I care...

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. For 40 years, physicists and cosmologists...

Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face ... People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my fl...

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space....

My heart is where you are, Ainsley. So when you leave... Cameron made an empty gesture.I'll come back, she said stubbornly. To this wreck of a man? Why should you?Because I love you

Kaltain, her uncle rumbled, a demand and a threat and a promise. The silent young woman—the one who never spoke, who never looked at anything, who had such marks on her. Elide had seen her only a few...

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men... and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several s...

Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can b...

Inside, I was like: Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!

In school I ended up writing three different papers on The Castaway section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard and is driven mad by the empty immensity of what he finds...

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

I'm falling into disrepair

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...