God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

You quit? I thought you said it was too dangerous to quit, Alex. You said people who try to get out die.I almost did. If it weren't for Gary Frankel, I probably wouldn't have made it. . . .Gary Franke...

Yes, alive, said Fudge. That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and i...

When Chief Black Hawk was defeated and captured in 1832, he made a surrender speech:I fought hard. But your guns were well aimed. The bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like t...

Vadier (on Danton): We’ll clean up the rest of them, and leave that great stuffed turbot till the end.Danton (on Vadier): Vadier? I’ll eat his brains and use his skull to shit in.

Tisiphone stood silent and helpless in Alicia's mind. It was all she could do to keep Alicia's blind savagery from dragging Megaira under and clouding the lightning-fast reflexes which kept them both...

This is what’ll happen, she said, and it’s true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, all the particles that make you up will loosen and float apart, just like your daemons did. If you’ve seen peo...

She looked around the room, glanced over him and Micah waited.Her Gaze passed him, then again. On the third pass she lingered as she continued to watch her, allowing his gaze to memorize those feature...

Scummer, pox and wound rot! roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May e...

Red FoxThe red fox crosses the iceintent on none of my business.It's winter and slim pickings.I stand in the bushy cemetery,pretending to watch birds,but really watching the foxwho could care less.She...

Only an idiot or or ,’ the Professor said, patiently.

Leo drummed his fingers. Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.Hazel frowned. What is a chicken nugge...

It is very easy to grow tired at collecting; the period of a low tide is about all men can endure. At first the rocks are bright and every moving animal makes his mark on the attention. The picture is...

I've never taken a woman on a beach, - Rowan Whitethorn

I will not expose you to these men. Give it a rest, Jacques. I mean it. We’re in this thing together. I hate to brag and put you at an obvious disadvantage, but I can take more of the sun than you. Hi...

I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remember best of all, though, was the sudden certainty that the gods were with me, that they would fight...

I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

His eyes were green.

Go 'head. Those freaky-ass black eyes had stared at Butch with the intensity of a shark. Crack open that door. Run your little heart out. Run fast, run smart, call for help. Just know that I'll come a...

For some politics has become a battle ground that allows them to vent their frustrations, while at the same time hide behind the anonymity of the social media. For others it has become a weapon to ove...