When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.The gray area between yes and no.Silence.

What's your enterprise of choice?Vane grinned. Hops.Patience blinked. Hops?A vital ingredient used to flavor and clarify beers. I own Pembury Manor, an estate near Tunbridge in Kent.And you grow hops?...

What needs my for his honoured bones,The labor of an age in pilèd stones,Or that his hallowed relics should be hidUnder a star-y-pointing pyramid?Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,What need'st t...

We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams.

The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to ch...

Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize C...

Make sure you wear something appropriate, dear. You never know who you’ll run into and it’s always smart to look your best.

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

In despair, I offer your readers their choice of the following definitions of entropy. My authorities are such books and journals as I have by me at the moment.(a) Entropy is that portion of the intri...

If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.Who's Magnus? Max inquired.He's a warlock, said Alec.A sexy, sexy warlock, Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fu...

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

I was taught by family at ten.I was taught by books at twenty.I was taught by enemies at thirty.I was taught by nature at forty.I was taught by life at fifty.At ten, I was foolish.At twenty, I was naï...

I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in...

I now had two handy shafts of wood with jagged, pointy ends. I stepped between Inari and the nearest vampire and passed her one broken half of the rod. Here, I said. If you get the chance, make like B...

I need a hug from you to make me feel better about the fact I need a hug from you.

I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean.

I couldn’t go to sleep. I kept hearing him calling me, wanting me. I got up and drifted down the hall and again got in his bed, where he lay waiting. You’ll never be free of me, Cathy, never. As long...

Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed.

He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like a cat, hands pressed to his mouth as if trying to drain every taste. It was the onl...