Look after my heart - I've left it with you.

Lately the commandant speaks more and more intimately of the führer and the latest thing- prayers, petroleum, loyalty- that he requires. The führer requires trustworthiness, electricity, boot leather....

It was something in the way she moved.Something in the way she breathed.Something in the way she merely 'was' .And he didn’t think he was ever going to get over it.

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?...

Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine.

He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure o...

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

George thrust into Alma's hand a lithograph of a spotted 'Catasetum.' The orchid had been rendered so magnificently that it seemed to grow off the page. Its lips were spotted red against yellow, and a...

Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon...

En 1492, los nativos descubrieron que eran indios, descubrieron que vivían en América, descubrieron que estaban desnudos, descubrieron que existía el pecado, descubrieron que debían obediencia a un re...

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They h...

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

April. Month of dust and lies.

when building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, y...

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

Holy fuck. Testing, testing. Is this thing on or has Botox already begun to corrode her brain cells?

You have described only too well," replied the Master, "where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You...brace yourself for fai...