“ She had that look a child has only a few times in its life, when the child has bettered her betters. The expression isn't smug, though adults often take it for smugness. It's something else. Maybe rel… Gregory Maguire
“ E tu? - Perguntou o Espantalho ao Lenhador de Lata,- O que farei se ganhar um coração? - Zombou este. - Despedaçá-lo-ei constantemente, suponho. Gregory Maguire
“ What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his san… Gregory Maguire
“ Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the… Gregory Maguire
“ Well . . . St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just… Lisa Kleypas
“ Surely there is the handful of nursery marchen that start, ‘Once in the middle of a forest lived an old witch’ or ‘The devil was out walking one day and met a child,’ Said Oatsie, who was showing tha… Gregory Maguire
“ We've been wicked for such a very long time, you know. It does get tiresome after a while. Melissa de la Cruz
“ And now, these books. This. He touched PHYSIOGNOMONIE. The secrets of the individual's character as found on his face. Were Jim and Will, then, featured all angelic, pure, half-innocent, peering up th… Ray Bradbury
“ It's true what they say, Love is a wicked game,A game so wickedly played,I am at your command in your wicked games. Tanzy Sayadi
“ While many find the new clothes of the emperor magnificent, some dare to say out loud, he is simply naked. If the clear sighted are constrained by the credulous and when the “followers” are browbeatin… Erik Pevernagie
“ Would've been useful when I was about eight," I said. "I used to have wicked nightmares." I did, too: stupid dreams about being chased by Elmo. A psycho Elmo with eyes like that Chucky doll. I'd wake… Robin Stevenson
“ She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back. Shannon Celebi
“ All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now. Brenna Yovanoff
“ We can go somewhere more private if you’d like… Buck” I whisper softly in his ear, pulling back almost as slowly as the wicked grin spreads across my face. His perverse smile hides nothing. I have him… Dennis Sharpe
“ I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girls. . . . How many have danced to death in slippers of silk and glass and fur and wood? Too many to c… Catherynne M. Valente
“ There’s something familiar about the curve of her lower lip. The weight cradled by a soft, slender chin. The bow of her top lip sweeps across it in a way that makes me think of the sun setting on the… A.D. Evans
“ I think I finally understand the saying like a moth to a flame. I’m the moth. My heart flutters like the paper thin wings. And he is the flame, incendiary, scorching my soul.He inhales so heavily, lik… A.D. Evans
“ If a wicked rake doesn’t kiss a young lady when they’re alone in a moonlit rose garden, might it mean he doesn’t intend to? There were rules about such things. Weren’t they written down somewhere? If… Anna Bradley
“ The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held captive—be that from a person, a government, or one’s inner self—… Laura Kreitzer
