The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.
I wanted to come, and if I hadn’t, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave and irreplaceable they were.
That’s the thing about poetry, it’s scarcely ever accurate. Take the Lady of Shalott. ‘She loosed the chain and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away.’ She lies down in the boat and goes fl...
Kivrin reached out for Dunworthy's hand and clasped it tightly in her own. I knew you'd come, she said, and the net opened.
And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. —DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN
That’s the problem with models—they only include the details people think are relevant,
Since I spend my working days studying trends, many of which are downright disgusting, I feel it’s my duty after work to encourage the trends I’d like to see catch on, like signaling before you change...
She was afraid she’d have no hope at all of recognizing the drop without the wagon and boxes there. She would have to get Gawyn to show it to her,
One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.
Bigotry is one of the oldest and ugliest of trends, so persistent it only counts as a fad because the target keeps changing: Huguenots, Koreans, homosexuals, Muslims, Tutsis, Jews, Quakers, wolves, Se...
And I wouldn't feel any loss because I wouldn't ever have met her. I wondered suddenly if Terence did, if he knew on some level that he hadn't met his true love. And if he did, what did he feel? Mawki...
To do something for someone or something you loved- England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history- wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an elopement.
There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones. I
The multinationals who’d been backing Darby and Gentilla lost interest, and time travel had been handed over to historians and scientists,
They say the dead can’t speak, but they can! The people in this book died over sixty years ago, in the middle of the ocean, with no one around them for miles, but they still speak to you. They still s...
There was a crack of thunder so loud I was convinced I’d been struck by lightning for lying.
Then why does every sentence beginning ‘We need to talk’ end in disaster? Our whole evolutionary history has been about trying to stop information from getting communicated—camouflage, protective colo...
She nodded. The Michigan State Library fire was caused by a student trying to burn the state draft board files so he wouldn’t be drafted and ended up destroying twenty thousand volumes.