I want a room decorated with bones! Dan said. Where'd they come from?Cemeteries, Amy said. Back in the 1700s, the cemeteries were getting overcrowded, so they decided to dig up tons of old bodies–all...
Hermes smiled. I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really., George said. Martha snapped. Hermes ignored them. One night, when this boy's mother wasn't watching, he sneaked...
Helen of Troy Does Counter DancingThe world is full of womenwho'd tell me I should be ashamed of myselfif they had the chance. Quit dancing.Get some self-respectand a day job.Right. And minimum wage,a...
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
Do we still have to floss? Tommy asked. I mean, what's the point of being immortal if we have to floss?
But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.
And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glitter...
Alma wrote in depth about laurel, mimosa, and verbena. She wrote about grapes and camellias, about the myrtle orange, about the cosseting of figs, She published under the name A. Whittaker. Neither sh...
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love?- Epithalamion
Aelin Galathynius smiled at her, hand still outreached. Get up. the princess said.Celaena reached across the earth between them and brushed her fingers against Aelin's.And arose.
A whizzpopper! cried the BFG, beaming at her. Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little wh...
All things are only transitory.
There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
Less intelligence capacity equals less safety.
Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.
A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went...
Children throw tantrums because they've imagined their 'father in heaven' does so. And because, their inherited religious book has, in written, shown them so.
Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar.
Yeah, his school! It was his first real home, the place that meant he was special; it meant everything to him, and even after he left -""This is You-Know-Who we're talking about, right? Not you?" inqu...