Even in death the boys were trouble.
I am a vampire, and that is the truth.
Indian summer is like a woman.
If you're going to read this, don't bother.
I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years.
It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as me...
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
This story began, as all writing must, in failure.
Mouths open to the sun, they sleep.
At dusk the pour from the sky.
I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.
It was a pleasure to burn.
Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.
They had flown from England to Minneapolis to look at a toilet.
It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house.
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.
At dusk they pour from the sky.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.