Doubt is something that should be entertained privately.
Anakin was sixteen years old. Impatience was wired into his being. Despite Anakin's strong Force connection, it would most likely take years before he developed true inner balance. Obi-Wan, on the oth...
We push away the bad memories, Irina said. Bleak sadness deadened her voice. We tell ourselves is better not to remember. It is not better. Better to remember everything, even pain.
Listen!Jonah! Amy breathed.
How satisfying it must feel to simply wait for events to unfold as you have foreseen them, Anakin thought. How powerful to know the outcome before it happened. This was what he could learn—and not fro...
Was our father a Vesper? Erasmus took a careful sip of coffee. He leaned back and blew out a sigh as he stared out at the square. Then he took off his sunglasses. His eyes looked tired. He leaned forw...
Let's hope it doesn't come to that, Ian put in. Just fridge yourselves, as Jonah says.Dude, Dan said. Do you mean ?Precisely. Just what I said.
Dweeb!
When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.
I remember, she said. Lawrence Malley. He was an expert in security systems.Aka Lightfinger Larry. Dan grinned. He was also wanted in five states.Great, Amy groaned. I sent you to a tutorial with a cr...
He bolted up. What’s happening? Where’s my pants?
Gravel-maggot?
Why does Switzerland look like one big cuckoo clock to me? Dan asked.Because you have no sould, Amy answered.
She opened her Dictionary of Australian Slang. I'll just put on my sunnies, she said, slipping on sunglasses. I'll spit the dummy if you ankle biters take too long, but if you don't, she'll be apples!...
OMIGOSH JONAH WIZARD!-Amy Cahill
No one is keeping a score. We're all just trying to do the right thing.
I’m so hungry, Amy said sleepily. Hey, you stole my line, Dan said.
The sunset was spectacular, and they were safe in the minibus with the students from Estonia who were on their way to Salzburg for the tour. Jonah sat up front with girls and led a sing-along.Who wou...
Sunlight streamed in through double-height windows and cast squares of rich gold on the carpet.
Sometimes kids at school called her mean. She wasn’t mean. She just saw reality clearly, and she shared it without dusting it in sugar and rainbows first. One day, when Anna was in first grade, she’d...