Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin.
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities:...
Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her...long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be recognized as...
Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.
Only the liar knows that he's lying.
Nothing, I said. I’m just… I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. I’m just very, very fond of you.
No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for...
Look, he isn’t even concerned.I poured the tea. He’s concerned, Mother. He just doesn’t panic, because he’s in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic.I can jog around the room pretending t...
It is a curious mystery [...] that the exact same notions of the Seven Sages as the bringers of civilization in the remotest antiquity, and of the preservation and repromulgation of writings on stones...
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.
Introducing uncertainty sometimes requires nothing more than letting go of the illusion of certitude. In this shift of perception, we recognize the inherent mystery of our partner. I point out to Adel...
Intergenerational inequity in public finance, hypertrophic growth of regulation, deterioration in the rule of law and corrosion of educational institutions – taken together, these lead to a ‘great deg...
Interestingly Haile himself came to have second thoughts about the popularity machine he had created and left Chartbeat in 2016 to launch a company, Scroll, that would devote itself to helping publish...
Intellectually, he knew that he was falling sunward, heading in from the Jovian system toward the Belt. In a week, the sun would be close to twice the size it was now, and it would still be insignific...
Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.
Inside those waves our voices bounced back at us, deeper and larger for all the noise, like the voices of men.
Inside the house there was no sound save the ticking of the mantel clock in the front room. He went out and shut the door.Dark and cold and no wind and a thin gray reef beginning along the easternrim...
Insecure men with a patina of authority could be annoying. Give those same men actual authority and they could be deadly.
Inimesed kujutavad ette, et hingesugulane on keegi, kellega sa täiuslikult kokku klapid, ja seda ju igaüks endale ihkab. Aga tõeline hingesugulane on hoopis peegel, inimene, kes näitab sulle kõike sed...
Ingrates! says the garment, I protected you in inclement weather. Why will you have nothing to do with me? I have just come from the deep sea, says the fish. I have been a rose, says the perfume. I ha...
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