The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned.Hey handsom Mimi sent.What's up? Jack replied, without speaking.Just thinking of you.Jack's smile deepened, and he threw the rose b...
The more things change, the more they stay different.
Thank you, she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.
Sometimes the only way to win is to cheat,' Aelwyn said stubbornly.The sisters turned to see what the Sister Superior would do, but Sister Mallory only sighed. 'You are young still, Sister Myrddyn, bu...
So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack
She nodded... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and grabbed his arm. Jack.Yes?I. . . she faltered. She knew what she wanted to tell him, but she couldn'...
She looked not like a mother in her thirties, but like the girl he had fallen in love with, and he loved her still. She would always be that girl to him, no matter what happened. That was love, after...
School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual...
Pretty clothes are like the colors of a flower’s petals. They tell the bee where to land. After that, it’s what’s inside that holds his interest, said Peggy, still quoting their mother.
One should not seek those who do not wish to be found.
Medicine is a bit like love, Aunt Gertrude began. There are the theatrical outer forms gone through by the players-the bandages and injections and extractions, the flowers and love notes and dances-bu...
Magic is an expression of the unlimited capacity of mystery and wonder in the world.
Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable.
It’s a birthday party, sniffed Mal. And I wasn’t invited.
It wasn't a lie, not at all like one of those lies she told herself all the time, like This is the last drink of the evening, or I'm not going to set the bitch's house on fire.
It was a story they could tell their children, something out of a fairy tale. How their mother had not known who he was when she accepted him, and the frog turned out to be a prince. But the princess...
If she wasn’t Mal from the Isle anymore, who was she?
I take it back! she'd wanted to say . I take everything back. I love you. Let's go away. Just the two of us together.
Hay que tener un gran valor para enfrentarse a nuestros enemigos, pero se necesita aún más valor para enfrentarse a nuestros amigos. —J. K. ROWLING, HARRY POTTER Y LA PIEDRA FILOSOFAL
Eliza had never seen Alex quite so happy and relaxed. She shook her head and laughed at the incongruity of it all: Imagine General Washington's famous aide-de-camp taking the time to stop and admire t...