Later in conversation he corrected himself: It was in fact 1.1 million pigs. The difference might seem like just a rounding error, he told me, but if you ever had to kill an extra hundred thousand pig...

Jane, I said quietly.She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying.If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is...

It's six o'clock; my drink is at the three-quarter mark - three-quarters down not three-quarters up - and the night begins.(New York Blues)

It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fat...

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.Who's Magnus? Max inquired.He's a warlock, said Alec.A sexy, sexy warlock, Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fu...

If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you shoul...

If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.

I will see you again,’ Hades promised. ‘I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps your chambers would look good decorated with the skulls of monks.’ ‘Now I can’t...

I was taught by family at ten.I was taught by books at twenty.I was taught by enemies at thirty.I was taught by nature at forty.I was taught by life at fifty.At ten, I was foolish.At twenty, I was naï...

I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, inst...

I couldn’t go to sleep. I kept hearing him calling me, wanting me. I got up and drifted down the hall and again got in his bed, where he lay waiting. You’ll never be free of me, Cathy, never. As long...

He hasn't even eaten at Olive Garden, so I doubt he's a connoisseur of hotels. - KatNo Olive Garden? Man, we've got to get that boy some endless breadsticks and salad. Travesty. - Daemon

Giving these lil’ fellas a gun was important to keep the name of the Rebellions strong, because whenever the name drops, it’s only a matter of time before someone kicks your door in. Scrooge, former l...

Fairy Tales give you more than just smile.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus rem...

Darlin', old don't mean dead.

Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business of photosynthesis. Around the inside perimeter of each gigantic cell trailed a continuous loop of th...

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.