Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
He would have enough money...for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.
Frances is a diamond, passed from filthy paw to paw but never diminished. The men who handle her can leave no mark because her worth is far above them. Hard, helpless, buried. You can hear it in her v...
You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the prese...
When will she discover that I am from a lesser race of immortals? But the high deities have always needed pixies to persuade them down to earth. When she no longer needs an intermediary, will she stil...
Under a smoky streetlamp I stood face to face with my beloved and pricked my fingers against the diamond studs of her immaculate shirt front. Being tall, she slipped her hands naturally about my hips...
There is love, there is music, there is no limit, there is work, there is the precious sense that this is the hour of grace when all things gather and distill to create the rest of my life. I don't be...
The moon may drive men mad but it can calm a savage girl, for it is cool, precise, it is lucid.
Sat - sex is good for the voice. Why don't they teach you that in school?
It's where she belongs, she craves the caress of the violent shore, to come alive like that once more in a clash of stone and then to die.
It's his last thrill and his last sting of love, as fresh and painful as youth transplanted over time and an ocean. There is nothing left for him now except to die, but that will take a while because...
I am here as a speck, but I don't feel scared or about to be blown away, I feel like all New York is a warm embrace just waiting to enfold me.
Here is the place called Awake. On the other side of this line is the country of Asleep. And you see this shaded area in between? Don't linger there. It is No Man's Land.
He thought his heart would kill him, he'd had no clue what it was capable of.
Frances learns something in this moment that will allow her to survive and function for the rest of her life. She finds out that one thing can look like another. That the facts of a situation don't ne...
Frances is a sealed letter. It doesn't matter where she's been or who's pawed her, no one gets to handle the contents no matter how grimy the envelope. And it's for sure no one's going to be able to s...
Anthony has experienced the feeling before—no matter where he is, there is something about people’s struggles to keep their memories that bruises his heart, because it’s too soft to break. The world i...
An unhappily married woman is necessarily a bad cook.
Who is that in the glass? She sees herself for the first time. She doesn't require softlight, not at her age, not with her looks, so the effect of three candles is excessivelyravishing. Her hair spark...
The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.