What it had done, however, was to give him a feeling of power and control that had taken him back to how he used to feel every day.

What are these guys? He whisperedCanadians, Percy said. Frank leaned away from him. Excuse me?Uh, no offense, Percy said. That's what Annabeth called them when I fought them before. She said they live...

We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual narratives in our heads.

We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.

There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.

The Sabians were allowed to build a new Temple of the Moon God, and to continue their religious rites, after the Arab General Ibn Ghanam conquered Harran in the seventh century AD. This in itself is a...

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of genius makes an ominous impression on them, for there e...

She murmured, You're unfinished.Aye, precisely.I need to go.When she moved to get up, he shoved her against his side and slapped her arse to keep her there. You stay with me.She snapped, What do you w...

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

Ma'am,' Augustus said, nodding toward her, 'your daughter's car has just been deservedly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.' After wa...

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…

It's possible to name everything and to destroy the world.

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civ...

Is truth something that in fact we do—and should—especially care about? Or is the love of truth, as professed by so many distinguished thinkers and writers, itself merely another example of ?

I would hear them say on the radio, that we need to hang them once they have been convicted for murder. I don’t think that some of them should have ever reached that stage. If we had prevented them fr...

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a seco...

His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous. Jacob noticed my scrutiny.What? he asked, suddenly self-conscious.Nothing. I just hadn't realised before. Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?Once...

Don't worry, he's coming with me to investigate things.In the city? Jim asked.Yes.That's a great idea. You both should go. To the city.Curran and I looked at each other.He's trying to get rid of us, I...