What happens if your choice is misguided?' I ask, softly.Miss Moore takes a pear from the bowl and offers us the grapes to devour. 'You must try to correct it.''But what if it’s too late? What if you...
What do I want? Why is that simple question - four little words - so impossible to answer?
Well, I mean, all the best people have a little beast in them.
We are a country built by immigrants, dreams, daring, and opportunity. We are a country built by the horrors of slavery and genocide, the injustice of racism and exclusion. These realities exist side...
Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.
There’s a Douglas Fairbanks picture at the Strand. A swashbuckler. You love those. Evie closed one eye. You’re telling me not to lose hope because there are pirate pictures? I’m trying here, Baby Vamp...
There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.
The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.
The Diviners must stand, or all shall fall.
Sometimes Felicity is as much a mystery to me as the location of the Temple. She is spiteful and childish one minute, lively and spirited in the next; a girl kind enough to bring Ann home for Christma...
She is the elephant’s eyebrows, Evie whispered appreciatively. Those jewels! How her neck must ache. That’s why Bayer makes aspirin, Mabel whispered back, and Evie smiled, knowing that even a socialis...
She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people.
Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.
My cholera's acting up again.
It was funny how one afternoon with a best friend could set a girl right.
It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.
I'm tired of everyone deciding what's for my own good!
I'm Sorry,' he says. It's simple and direct, with none of the nonsense about God calling home an angel too young and who are we to question his mysterious ways.
History was haunted by the ghosts of buried crimes, which required periodic exorcisms of truth. Actions had consequences. Will
He deserves to have his head on a spike for all to see. Waring: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.