Wherever battles are waged there are casualties, and death is a common occurrence. But what is closest to our hearts is the best interest of the people and the suffering of the vast majority, and when...

Where's Quinn?'He went around the other side. Connor replied. Stealth mode.A war whoop and a mocking laugh belied that comment.Hunter sighed. 'He's across the street, being a lunatic, you mean.'That's...

Well, good-bye for now, he said, rolling his neck as if we hadn't been talking about anything important at all. He bowed at the waist, those wings vanishing entirely, and had begun to fade into the ne...

We're lucky Esme thought to add an extra room. No one was planning for Ness-Renesmee.I frowned at him, my thoughts channeled down a less pleasant path.Not you too, I complained.Sorry, love. I hear it...

We never burned right.

We all want to feel like the most beautiful girl in the room, to be chosen and loved forever. The Cinderella story gives us hope of our impossible dreams becoming true.

Vishous, son of the Bloodletter, was not the kind of male anyone addressed like that. Except, apparently, for Wrath. In this case, the Brother with the tattoos on his face and the perverted reputation...

Truly it was the beginning of everything that followed, the starting line of the harrowing journey disguised in the form of a simple question.She was glad she didn't know where it would take her. Beca...

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much! (Buck, 57)

To HelenI saw thee once-once only-years ago;I must not say how many-but not many.It was a july midnight; and from outA full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring,Sought a precipitate pathway...

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially if they’re on foot. Part of the problem is that the cameras...

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pe...

That (labyrinth)...became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you'r...

Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.

So, the dreams of perfection, of fame, of fortune, of undying, ever-abiding love without one single flaw, like the toys and games of yesteryears, and all other youthful fantasies I have outgrown, I ha...

She browsed many a shop for just the right gown. The dressmaker had started it for another woman, who had decided she did not want it after all. A few alterations were all it needed.And it was exquisi...

Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand boldly to it! Metal's worthless till it's shaped and...

La commedia è una tragedia che capita agli altri.

Kaltain Rompier unleashed her shadowfire upon them all.This was not the ghost of shadowfire they had made her kill with—the reason why they had first approached her, lied to her when they invited her...