The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before Igave him ID.It’s a sick world, Eve. He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. A sick,sad world.

She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.

Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.

Of course, in television's presentation of the news of the day, we may see the Now...this mode of discourse in it's boldest and most embarrassing form. For there, we are presented not only with fragme...

It is often said that what sets Shakespeare apart is his ability to illuminate the workings of the soul and so on, and he does that superbly, goodness knows, but what really characterizes his work - e...

In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped.

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the Fuck you signs in the world. It's impossible.

If there really are such creatures in here, it would be the discovery of a lifetime.’'If there really are such creatures in here,’ Sally countered, 'your lifetime might be very short.

I've hated Snowflake for so long, she says. But then I met you. And you're the person entire town has trashed, a person belonging to the group I've been raised to believe is evil, and you're the only...

I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin. He shook the hair out of his face. I'm not inte...

I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; but I think, w...

I felt sure, glaring at the children as they settled onto the sand with their shovels, that these creatures were never threatened by the grimness of history, either. Then, looking down on their glossy...

I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world...

He showed the words chocolate cake to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. Guilt was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eater...

Every minute with you, Darling Eve, is a minute to treasure.She slid a glance toward him as she uncoded the seal. You really do want sex.I'm still breathing, so that would be yes.

Demon pox, said Sophie. Mr. Lightwood's got it, has had for years, and it'll kill him in a right couple of months if he doesn't get the cure. And Mortmain said he can get it for him. The room exploded...

I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she g...

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.

Shigure: We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage'. I believe the technical term is being an ass.

Borrow a little and if you can't pay it back, it's your problem. Borrow a lot and if you can't pay it back, it's the lenders problem.