Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.

Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.

She flapped her hands, anxious energy coursing through her. How can you be so calm? He got to his feet, unfolding with an easy grace. He held out a hand, his dark eyes focused solemnly on hers. Come w...

Qhuinn would reach out and touch the bandage … and then he would let his fingers wander off the gauze and the surgical tape onto the warm, smooth skin of Blay’s stomach. Blay would be shocked, but in...

One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of u...

My fingers draw up her back and tangle into her hair. she repeats.Our lips crush together, our bodies pressed tight. An inferno of lips and hands and movements that continues to grow in heat. The bla...

Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from death?

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

If you love her, that's all that matters.

If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour ca...

He's having a vision, I said. That's what happens. (Maya)Attractive, I know, Corey said between gritted teeth. And now I get new witnesses to my humiliation. Wonderful.We're used to it, Chloe said. De...

He paused and eyed her as if she were an agate discovered in gravel. But what a very sharp tongue you have for a housekeeper.Bridget's heart sank- she knew better than to speak so frankly. It was neve...

For pure patriotism, however, the Gists of South Carolina stood above the rest. Their father had been an ardent patriot during the Revolution, in consequence of which he named his first son Independen...

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

Did I ever tell you that Alex loves you so much he got your name tattooed all over his body? Hell, he even got your name branded into the back of his neck.They say 'LB,' Carlos. The initials for Latin...

Chloe. Always Chloe with him and his brother. I know I sound like a whiny brat when I complain, but I think I have a good reason. I’d just discovered that I was a witch and my mother was a bitch—the m...

Asif Ali maneuvers the gleaming Mercedes down the labyrinthine lanes of Old Kolkata with consummate skill, but his passengers do not notice how smoothly he avoids potholes, cows and beggars, how skilf...

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.

A los que Crowley no podía soportar era a ésos que se llamaban a sí mismos satánicos. No sólo por lo que hacían, sino por la manía que tenían de achacárselo todo al Infierno. Se les ocurría alguna ide...