Yes, my boy; yes, my girl. The tension between contraries is what makes us ourselves. We have not just one, but the other too, mixing and clashing and sparking inside us. Not just light, but dark. Not...

Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other’s domain.

You are a woman, my lady, the Greatjon rumbled in his deep voice. Women do not understand these things.You are the gentle sex, said Lord Karstark, with the lines of grief fresh on his face. A man has...

You don’t have any apples to offer while you’re at it, do you? she asked sourly.Satan tempting Eve in the garden? Not a terribly flattering role for me, is it? And you’re overdressed for the part.Amy’...

You know, I don’t get why Fred and George only got three O.W.L.s each, said Harry, watching as Fred, George, and Lee collected gold from the eager crowd. They really know their stuff. . . .Oh, they on...

You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

[Quoting Miss Harty:]People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they’re telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah coul...

[T]he very multiculturalism and multiethnicity that brought Salman to the West, and that also made us richer by Hanif Kureishi, Nadeem Aslam, Vikram Seth, Monica Ali, and many others, is now one of th...

When I snatched the gun out of his hand, it fired because the hammer was already pulled back. It made the thunderous sound that the .357 magnum is known for. Even though the sound itself was deafening...

When I, who is called a weapon or a monster, fight a real monster, I can fully realize that I am just a human.

When my mother told my father what had happened, he didn't want to believe it. Nobody ever wants to believe what happens to the Jews, she said, not even us.

Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back...

«Il viaggio non finisce mai. Solo i viaggiatori finiscono. E anche loro possono prolungarsi in memoria, in ricordo, in narrazione. Quando il viaggiatore si è seduto sulla sabbia della spiaggia e ha de...

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother:...

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

NEWT: What d’you think I should say to her, if I see her?JACOB: Oh, well, it’s best not to plan these things. You know, you just say whatever comes to you in the moment.A beat. They walk.NEWT (reminis...

Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. Does Zeus really have lightningbolts that do six hundred damage? Does he get extra movement points for—Nico, shut up! Bianca put her hands to her...

No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But no...