They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are ba...

These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.

There’s someone in town asking for directions to Bhaile Anois, she said. He checked in late last night at the inn.Any and Dan exchanged uneasy glances.What does he look like? Amy asked.Fiona narrowed...

The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

The story was certainly current at court, and in 1535 a Member of Parliament, Sir George Throckmorton, accused Henry to his face of 'meddling' with both Anne's mother and sister Mary.'Never with the m...

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

The best part is coming.What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?No. That's the finale.

Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, he said, That from the nunnery, Of they chaste breast and quiet mind.I looked up at him, and said the next line, To war and arms I fly.True, a new mistress now I chase...

She was surprised because she was Emily, and she did not share Jonathan's frank assessment of coworkers as losers, whiners, bozos, sharks. No, she imagined people were rational and courteous, as she w...

Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don’t want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

I’ve been alive a long time, long enough to know that the more baggage you carry in life, the more unstable you’ll be, until eventually you get sick of carrying it, and then you just fall down.

It's that...what I want isn't what I need.

It's humbling to become the very thing you once mocked.

I said, Jesse, don't flatter yourself that I did this for you. I mean, it has been nothing but one giant pain in the neck, having you for a roommate. Do you think I like having to come home from schoo...

I missed you, he said quietly, his gaze darting between her mouth and eyes. When I was inWendlyn. I lied when I said I didn’t. From the moment you left, I missed you so much I went out of mymind. I wa...

I incline to Cain's heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

I don’t want to...be like this, I whispered as I looked away, and once I said it, I didn’t even want to take the words back. A weird sensation hit me, almost like...like relief. That didn’t make sense...

I don't hate you, Jace.I don't hate you, either.She looked up at him, relieved. I'm glad to hear that—I wish I could hate you, he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smi...

Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for the sake of serenity but to hear the Voice inside. That is how the storyteller...