Patience's mental imprecations reached new heights. Mrs. Chadwick had not lied- Vane Cynster was the very epitome of an elegant gentleman. His hair, burnished chestnut several shades darker than her o...
Now and then a pair of eyes would burn at us out of the dark ahead. I knew that they were the eyes of a cow–a poor dear stoic old cow with a cud, standing on the highway shoulder, for there wasn't any...
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...
In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to...
If they let you out, Kaltain said, both of them staring into the blackness of their prisons, make sure that they're punished someday. Every last one of them.Celaena listened to her own breathing, felt...
If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.
I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons migh...
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That’s what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or...
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our timesCreation's mighty seed
How in the fuck is that even possible? Was Hades sleeping on the job o something?Yes, Seth, he took a nap and Perses snuck in the back door and let them out. Then they skipped through the Vale of Mour...
Hermes's eyes twinkled. Martha, may I have the first package, please?Martha opened her mouth ... and kept opening it until it was as wide as my arm. She belched out a stainless steel canister-an old-f...
But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.
Behind him Kaldar nudged Urow's youngest son. Bet you he lasts at least thirty seconds.Um... Gaston looked at him. No he won't.Bet me something.I don't have anything.Kaldar grimaced. Pick up that rock...
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
And what do you know, John's hands flew through the positionsof ASL in various l-got-this combinations.Is he deaf the guy behind the cash register asked in a stagewhisper. As if someone using American...
A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.
When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.
It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.