Well, I'm expecting great things from you, young man! Th-thank you, Brother Cyrus. As soon as he released my shoulders, I hurried over to the glass wall where Kiernan was sitting, frowning out at the...
The heel of my white kidskin boot ripped a six-inch gash in the hem of my skirt as I whipped around the corner.
The cake was sinfully decadent, dripping with chocolate, exactly the way a birthday cake should be.
Money is power and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.
How much time is wasted today training children to perform a variety of skills that they not only will never use but would never even consider using?
Attached without a problem, but I didn’t notice any change. Is it supposed to do something? Katherine opened the journal and tapped
You look very librarian. He’s right. The blue dress falls just below the knee and is probably the frumpiest-looking thing I’ve ever worn, but at least it’s loose enough that I can fight in it if I hav...
What ladder? There’s a fire escape? I hadn’t even considered that possibility—I mean, really, what homicidal maniac would include fire escapes in the design plan for his torture castle?
Things that are different, things that don’t fit into our own typical surroundings, do tend to set off some sort of subliminal trigger in most people. Your pulse beats faster, you become more aware of...
So, you’re sort of like a reverse Shawn Spencer? The guy on that show from a while back who claimed to be psychic, but he’s really just seeing the stuff other people could see, if they paid closer att...
It’s a hard lesson in life, but you have to accept that some things are out of your hands. Otherwise, you’ll never know a single minute of peace. You mend what you can, and you let the
If your faith is so shaky that it can be undermined by books that challenge it, then something is rotten at the core. And
I think it’s important to know you’re wanted, maybe even needed, don’t you? Gives you somethin’ to hold on to when you’re off in a strange place.
I think it’s important to know you’re wanted, maybe even needed, don’t you? Gives you somethin’ to hold on to when you’re off in a strange place. Kinda like you are now, right, child?
His memories of them had faded and… well, I’d known them, so I met with him and we talked. I couldn’t give him the full truth, obviously, but what he really wanted to know was what his parents were li...
As I’m reading Katherine’s historical diaries, every now and then I’ll see a question that Katherine asked, like, ‘Who is the Infanta?’ or ‘What is a simoleon?’ In SimCity, a simoleon is money, Trey i...
Holy trinity of Creole cuisine—bell peppers, celery, and onions—while
Things settled into a lazy pattern. School, chores, and long hours down by the river. Kiernan talked about the books he read sometimes, even loaned me a few. But I liked it better when he read to me o...
That surprised me. Not that it wasn’t a damn good game. We saw it again, in fact, after he took up with Kate. Not that either of them paid much attention to what was going on down on the field. That w...
I’d pegged you as cute-but-boring. But it looks like Kate’s little pet has claws.