Take off your coat.Excuse me?Take it off.No.I want it off.Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous...

Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?''Oh, rather!''What do you do about it?''I generally take a couple of cocktails.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.-

Listen, I don't want things to get weird, okay.Oh, yeah, no, weird is bad.But just so you and I are clear, I really fucking want to kiss you right now.

Just because it’s taken three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one has spotted I'm a girl!

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's fli...

It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds' public profile as aggrieved parents provoked another rupture within the Freyd family, when William Freyd mad...

It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor rese...

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

Inside, upstairs, where the planes are met, the spaces are long and low and lined in tasteful felt gray like that cocky stewardess's cap and filled with the kind of music you become aware of only when...

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

In Europe, the dimensions of physical space seemed compressed. The looming vertical presence of mountains cut me off from the horizon. I'd not lived with that kind of spatial curtailment before. Even...

I've never seen anyone move like she did, Chaol breathed. I've never seen anyone run that fast. Dorian, it was like... Chaol shook his head. I found a horse within of her taking off, and she outran...

I was enticed like a fly to a pot of honey by something reminiscent of a religious cult offering salvation. We were not urged to commit collective suicide, because the Day of Judgment was nigh, but to...

I selected a simple but graceful gown with a sage-colored organza overdress and a seed-pearl choker, hoping that I had chosen well, and I swept my hair up with long, pearl-dotted pins from a small ivo...

I don’t know what tomorrow is going to bring, what a year from now is going to be like. Hell, we may end up killing each other over something stupid next week. It’s a possibility. But all I do know is...

I do love it when I am right,' Hyacinth said triumphantly. 'Which is fortunate, since I so often am.

I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn’t seem much different from not loving.