She gave him a wan smile. And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and I was about to be taken to Galbatorix in Uru'baen, a Rider appeared to rescue me. A rider and a dra...

It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.

James Agee. He was born a prince of the language, and so he remains. And Capote. I don't care what kind of stupid ass remarks he makes, he can write; he really can. When he's on he's really on. Updike...

Marissa laughed, utterly delighted with her mate. Later. Food first.Butch settled back immediately, like she'd called his lust to a heel and it behaved because it wanted to be a good boy. As she left,...

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Nor were the intellectuals of the 1920s a vanguard of a new outlook, as they themselves supposed, but the exhausted rearguard of Victorian romanticism. They sought refuge from an industrialised and ug...

Okay, listen up, people, Kieran raised his voice so that it was all gravelly and impressive. I wasn’t particularly impressed since we’d grown up together and I’d force-fed him mud pies when we were li...

Me and Katy look adorkable in extraterrestrialhighway shirts. You would just look stupid. You can thank me later.

My parents have always worried that I’d take Amy too personally — they always tell not to read too much into her, And yet I can’t fail to notice that whenever I screw something up, Amy does it right:...

In the interests of separation, Black women have been taught to view each other as always suspect, heartless competitors for the scarce male, the all-important prize that could legitimize our existenc...

Instead of making me docile, Lucinda’s curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally.

It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.

It was now pointed out that the black male child, even in a black school using white textbooks, could early come to the conclusion that all the heroes in history were white men. Furthermore, with the...

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess's glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti--no fancy modern clothes for him...

Lady Tina DeSilva. The president of the Ryan Foxheart Fan Club Castle Lockes Chapter. And my most mortal of enemies. Oh look, everyone. Mervin has arrived and he brought the muffins. If past experienc...

Lark: You shouldn't yell at her. Frostpine: Of course I should. Gods bless us all, Lark, but our Water dedicates would try the patience of a . — Dedicates Lark and Frostpine when the latter found out...

Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these t...

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

Many terribly quiet customers exist but none moreterribly quiet than Manhis footsteps pass so perilously soft across the seain marble winterup the stiff blue waves and every Tuesdaydown he grinds the...