Sometimes it was like Neil was from an alien planet, where people never asked for or shared anything emotional without deeply apologizing first. He assured me that he was simply British. And that we A...

Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take...

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

See, even though Jesse's a ghost, and can walk through walls and disappear and reappear at will, he's still...well, there. To me, anyway. That's what makes me-and Father Dom-different from everybody e...

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, writes it, builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it,

Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot th...

One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.

Oh, it was Malfoy, I was thinking about him and I lost track of things!

No crime too small’ was never exactly Moriarty’s slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented.

Looking down on their glossy heads, I realized that they were indeed threatened; they were simply unaware of it. We are all vulnerable.

It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight on distant ice.

If you want to sing, sing like today is your last.If you want to dance, dance like today is your last.If you want to laugh, laugh like today is your last.If birds sing without worrying about who is li...

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very huma...

If they let you out, Kaltain said, both of them staring into the blackness of their prisons, make sure that they're punished someday. Every last one of them.Celaena listened to her own breathing, felt...

If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand som...

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Cole Porter, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman,...

How did your parents come to be lost at sea, Moriarty?'The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran.