The American woods have been unnerving people for 300 years. The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town...

That’s no law, just a sword. Happens I got one too.

That such a final, tragic, and awful thing is suicide can exist in the midst of remarkable beauty is one of the vastly contradictory and paradoxical aspects of life and art.

She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius—­and she would not be afraid.

Rowan lifted his eyebrows. She nodded. That will never stop being strange, Aedion muttered.Deal with it, she told him, carrying the suit into the bedroom. Let's go hunt ourselves a pretty little demon...

Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso, From Dalí and El Greco,

Not long ago I was much amused by imagining—what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a dozen people at once, or to do some thing awful, something considered the most awful crime in the wor...

In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.

I'm not a monster, I'd told her, back when I said I would never hurt Oak. But maybe being a monster was my calling.

I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.'Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admire...

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better...

How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazingat the radiance of the sun.Jem still had his eyes closed. If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

Hero, who had not failed to notice Miss Milborne's roses, and George's haggard appearance, took the earliest opportunity that offered of following him to his retreat. Her tender heart ached for the pa...

He paused and eyed her as if she were an agate discovered in gravel. But what a very sharp tongue you have for a housekeeper.Bridget's heart sank- she knew better than to speak so frankly. It was neve...

Dr. Webb says that life is so full of complications and confusion that humans oftentimes find it hard to cope. This leads to people throwing themselves in front of trains and spending all their money...

Daniel walked as tall and strong as Ian or Mac, even Hart. They grow up so fast, Angelo said when he reacheed Cam. Cameron glanced at him, thinking the man joking, but Angelo's dark eyes were serious....

As much as I disliked Eddie Kuntz, I could sort of identify with a man who got a stiffie over banana cream pie.

Ansar is an Arabic term that means helpers or supporters. They were the citizens of Medina who helped Prophet Mohammed upon His arrival to the Holy city. While 'Hussain' is a derivation of 'Hassan' th...

Man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.

Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is... and then her teeth snap shut and your...