At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.

You said yourself that the people of Luna need a revolutionary. She lifted her chin, holding his gaze. So I’m going to Luna, and I’m going to start a revolution.

Who was this women?' asked Harry.'I dunno, some Ministry hag.'Mundungus considered for a moment, brow wrinkled.'Little women. Bow on top of er' head.'He frowned and then added, 'Looked like a toad.'Ha...

What would have made [seeing Göbekli Tepe from Harran] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall tower annexed to the temple that once stood here--a temple dedicated to (usually contracted to ), t...

What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

Well, obviously, she's feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect she's feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she can't work out who she likes best. Then...

Um leitor vive mil vidas antes de morrer

The next day the weather was blown out, with whitecaps frosting the entire channel across to Lanai and the coconut palms whipping overhead like epileptic dust mops.

So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!

Since thirteen, she’d been preparing. She wasn’t beautiful like these Bayhead Harbor girls, but it was surprising how men sometimes looked at her. More it was older men rather than guys her age, for s...

She knew only too well that the song was a beautiful lie. As soon as kitsch is recognized for the lie it is, it moves into the context of non-kitsch, thus losing its authoritarian power and becoming a...

Sam said he doesn’t have time for a boyfriend, much less Knight Delicious Face.Remind me why you call him that? Pete asked.Uh, pretty simple, Pete, I said. He’s a knight. And his face is delicious.

Revolutionists amke a reform, Conservatives only conserve the reform. They never reform the reform, which is often very much wanted.

Psychology’s service to U.S. national security has produced a variant of what the psychiatrist Robert Lifton has called, in his study of Nazi doctors, a Faustian bargain. In this case, the price paid...

Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot th...

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to mone...

Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean—an ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out...

Okay. Stop. All of you. This gossipfest about my virginity is not something I want to continue.

No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest

Massive wildfires occurred at the onset of the Younger Dryas, representing the most anomalous episode of biomass burning in at least 120,000 years and possibly in the past ~386,000 years.