Somewhere in the back of my mind, Nighteyes was frantic. 'Poisoned. That water is poisoned.' I couldn't frame a thought to reassure him.

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum...

She murmured, You're unfinished.Aye, precisely.I need to go.When she moved to get up, he shoved her against his side and slapped her arse to keep her there. You stay with me.She snapped, What do you w...

My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.

It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly....

Isaiah and Beth sit on the bed and munch on a shared container of pepper steak. Isaiah moves some of the pile from Beth’s side of the container, and she darts her fork as if to stab him, but he quickl...

If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. T...

I believe in forever, and that’s what you and I are. We define eternity. This may sound cheesy, but you make me go there. You give me butterflies, Emily Cooper. I’ve never had that before, and I don’t...

Fuck, he said, sliding his hands down to my thighs. You're making this very hard to be the good guy you said I was last night.I'm not drunk.He pressed his forehead to mine, chuckling softly. Yeah, I c...

Dee loves it here. Before you came, she spent most of her days here.To Daemon, my arrival was the beginning of the end. The apocalypse. Kat-mageddon. You know, I'm not going to get your sister in trou...

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both sha...

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.

Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ahesta boro.

There were elements of Mad Men at Newsweek, except that unlike the natty advertising types, journalists were notorious slobs and our two- and three-martini lunches were out of the office, not in...Kev...

I like talking to you,' he said, slowly.'Why?' That was the way to hear nice things. Ask why.

In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.

Just remember, no matter how much they love you, they'll never love you as much as I do." I had to catch the tears before they could fall, refusing to make him feel bad about the choice he had to make...

You need to re-assess your responsibility before making any necessary conclusion.