To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and...
His mother's words faded to myth, concocted by a gentle soul to delight the imagination of a boy.Until one day, they were no longer a myth. One day, he would wish he had never heard them at all becaus...
When we return--when I have delivered our discovery--I will give you a book to read about a thing called wild magic, she said drily. I wouldn't talk about it in the university. It's supposed to be an...
Truly it was the beginning of everything that followed, the starting line of the harrowing journey disguised in the form of a simple question.She was glad she didn't know where it would take her. Beca...
Already she knew that an idea could pain him like a bruise. He had grey eyes that showed every thought, and sometimes Charlotte worried that he might be hurt in some way that she would not be able to...
When she lay curled against him, her skin dewed from passion, there was still that small, cold place inside of her where the heat hadn't quite reached.
Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.
He imagines the plane exploding as it touches down, ignited by one of its glints, in a ball of red flame shadowed in black like you see on TV all the time, and he is shocked to find within himself, im...
The hounds will come to Cainsville and when they do, you'll wish you made a very different choice today
It was for me a moment of great peace. I did not know then that it was the last, the very last moment of peace, the end of the old innocent world, the final moment before I was plunged into the nightm...
One of them has to break, the queen said to the princess. Only then can it begin.I know, the princess said softly. But the prince isn't ready. It has to be her.Then you understand what I am asking of...
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Inside, upstairs, where the planes are met, the spaces are long and low and lined in tasteful felt gray like that cocky stewardess's cap and filled with the kind of music you become aware of only when...
Stop whimpering and snapping at me, I'm sick of it. Keep your mouth shut and do as I tell you, and maybe we'll even be in time for your uncle's bloody wedding.
There's things that have no finish, Scully, no ending to speak of. There's no justice to it, but that's the God's truth. The only end some things have is the end you give em.
I just hope — if he does come — it won't be some sort of horror show.
A shell in the pit, said I, if the worst comes to worst will kill them all.The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that dinner ta...
Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.
Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored w...
Beware the ides of March.
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