Like the Baron, Mathilde developed a formula for acting out life as a series of roles—that is, by saying to herself in the morning while brushing her blond hair, Today I want to become this or that pe...

It’s not his friendship I miss,’ Elizabeth said bluntly. ‘It’s him. The very person of him. His presence. I want his shadow on my wall, I want the smell of him. I can’t eat without him, I can’t do the...

It pains me to think how much you are worth now.I can't tell you that. If you can count it, you haven't got any.

I was a very lonely child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is starved. I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't OK to ask for it. Maybe there was a...

I knew it! Are we allowed to speak yet? said Ron grumpily. Hermione ignored him.Nicolas Flamel, she whispered dramatically, is the !This didn’t have quite the effect she’d expected.The what? said Harr...

Her magic sent him sprawling, and it then hurled into Rhysand again - so hard that his head cracked against the stones and the knife dropped from his splayed fingers. No one made a move to help him, a...

He stroked Tibbles, who was starting to leak and make nasty little noises.

He does kiss like a pirate though, I was able to re-affirm that.

Gods were like possums. You could go your whole life without seeing one, but once you found one of them, you found the whole freaky family.

Fitz: How bad is it?Nighteyes: Mind your own business.Fitz: You ARE my business.Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it.Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.

Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

Erotic attraction often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it is not a sign of love. Exciting, pleasurable sex can take place between two people who do not even...

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheism' is a term that should not even exist. No one needs to identify himself as...

And I was wondering how to depart without self-loathing or sadness, or with as little as possible, when a kind of immense sigh all around me announced it was not I who was departing, but the flock.

Al fin y al cabo, un hombre es sólo lo que ha decidido hacer o no hacer.

A lesson without pain is meaningless. That's because no one can gain without sacrificing something. But by enduring that pain and overcoming it, he shall obtain a powerful, unmatched heart. A fullmeta...

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercul...

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.