What an abyss of ignorance hiding under the guise of love and care!

Most people do not know what they are living for. Asking a question of the purpose of their existence would be an absurd thing to do merely on this account

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Every morning, the sun rises with endless possibilities that give you endless opportunities to begin again and to create a brand-new life.

You could give me the past, he said a little sadly. But Alec is my future.

What drove such people to their sinister occupations? Spite? Certainly, but also the desire for order. Because the desire for order tries to transform the human world into an inorganic reign in which...

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that must accept . The terrible thing, old buddy, is that must accept A...

Their message will never be decoded… because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when the accumulation of messages old and new is such that their voices cancel one another out. Today his...

Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of life, made it impossible for them to learn a language w...

She realized that Rowan saw each of those thoughts and more as he reached into his tunic and pulled out a dagger. Her dagger. He extended it to her, it's long blade gleaming as if he'd been secretly p...

She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eterna...

He is no true knight, but he saved me all the same, she told the mother. Save him if you can, and gentle the rage inside him -Sansa

Hauling in a quick breath, she held it, stretched upward, shut her eyes, and fleetingly touched her lips to his. They were as hard as she'd imagined, very like sculpted marble. Sensation flared at the...

Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the l...

But how did you know where we were? Annabeth asked.Advanced planning, my dear. I figured you would wash up near Miami if you made it out of the Sea of Monsters alive. Almost everything strange washes...

Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.

And suffering we know breeds images, it breeds the most beautiful images of all.

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom,' we make a mockery of human rights.

We want autonomy for ourselves and safety for those we love. That remains the main problem and paradox for the frail. Many of the things that we want for those we care about are things that we would a...