Miss Temple, perhaps you will demonstrate the proper curtsy for us?Without ado, Cecily temple, She Who Can Do No Wrong, settles to the floor in a long, slow, graceful arc that seems to defy gravity. I...
Mrs. Nightwing glances at the box in my hands. She clears her throat.I understand you've decided against Mr. Middleton....It's best to be sure, through and through, she says, keeping her eyes steadfas...
Murder was just another reason to drink
My head kinda hurts, Miss New Mexico said. Several of the girls gasped. Half of an airline serving tray was lodged in her forehead, forming a small blue canopy over her eyes. What is it? Miss New Mexi...
My head kinda hurts, Miss New Mexico said. Several of the girls gasped. Half of an airline serving tray was lodged in her forehead, forming a small blue canopy over her eyes.
New York is a city short on patience, cleanliness, clement weather, and citizens who hold faint opinions. It is not a city short of people trying to make a career of being famous, no matter what the o...
No me interesa. El amor es un lío, niña. Deja que las demás se vuelvan locas y se hagan ilusiones. ¿Yo? Yo tengo planes.
No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but they needed the world to bend to them, to fit into their order o...
No. I like my girls fully conscious when I kiss ’em. I’m funny that way,
No. It is impossible to maintain a smile in my brother's presence. Monks haven't the sort of patience required.
People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can surprise you.
Perhaps it is only the light. Perhaps it is the power of the realms at work through me. Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can...
Sam. Don’t make me kill you on a full stomach. I might get a cramp.
See, the trouble with Nietzsche, besides his being a real killjoy, is that he thinks like a spoiled seven-year-old who doesn’t want to share his sandbox toys— Sam!
Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin? Once upon a time there were four girls. One was pretty. One was clever. One charming, and one...one was m...
She has a scent that is familiar and comforting, like all the things you wish you could take with you on your travels to make you feel less alone.
She was chosen,' Mae insists.No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'...She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the mos...
She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.
Simon, would you still care for me if you discovered I was not who I say I am? What do you mean?I mean would you still care for me, no matter what you came to know?What a thing to ponder. I don't know...
So the good people maintained the illusion of democracy and wrote another hymn to America. They sang loud enough to drown out dissent. They sang loud enough to overpower their own doubts. There were n...
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