The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.
You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought.
Tell me, Lothaire, I want to know. Convince me why I should love you.Because any other female would!
She had been to her Great-Aunt Willoughby’s before, and she knew exactly what to expect. She would be asked about her lessons, and how many marks she had, and whether she had been a good girl. I can’t...
Pushing magic toward the candle, I willed it to light. Nothing happened.Irys made a strangled sound and the candle burned. Are you directing your magic to the candle?Yes. Why?You just ordered me to li...
I’d managed to find a hobbit in the Caucasus Mountains. I wondered what he would do if I asked him about second breakfast.
I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
He was a Parisian,’ he said. ‘You can never be sure what Parisians believe in – beyond Paris of course.
Good morning, she said. Are you drunk?She noticed what a split second it took for him to flare into aggression. Do I look it?No. Where is Citizen Danton?I’ve done away with him. I’ve been busy dismemb...
Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.
A text pops up on the screen. It’s from Luis. I can’t help but grin when I read his perfectly thought-out message.
Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.
At my lowest point, when things were at their most desperate and uncomfortable, I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.
One grey hair appeared on my headI plucked it out with my hand.It answered me: "You have prevailed against me alone -What will you do when my army comes after me?
I'm holding a super-expandable energy-powered towel. I've made friends with space hamsters. I think we've stretched believability rather far, don't you?
Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God, a major study of attitudes among middle aged Britons has found, says The Telegraph. Well, men are twice more likely than God to beli...
Aglaya just rolled her eyes. "You're like a ten year-old.""Ten-and-a-half," Kev defended. "But I read at a fourteen year-old level.
is it a big ass firm or a big firm ass?
They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing. But if you are planning on writing and they haven't fucked you up, well, you've got nothing to go o...