We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.
We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.
Watching the hole in the ever-fading light. It’s the size of a baby now, closing all the time. Narrower and narrower, until there’s barely room to fit an arm through. I’m thinking about quenching the...
Wait, I repeated.The darkness vanished, leaving Rhysand in his solid form as he grinned. Yes?I raised my chin as high as I could manage. Just two weeks?Just two weeks, he purred, and knelt before me....
Um... Hazel faltered. You mean you won't... you're not going to- Claim your life? Thantos asked. Well, let's see... He pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death, tapped the screen a few times, an...
Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a s...
Tiffany thought of the little spot in the woods where Granny Weatherwax lay. Remembered. And knew that You had been right. Granny Weatherwax was indeed here. And there. She was, in fact, and always wo...
There'd be no point trynna blackmail a bloke everyone already knows is a cunt, would there?
There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
The world was waiting--wide open and hers for the taking.
The thing that hunts me now thrives on terror. My terror. I fear he will come for me. I fear he will come for anyone who knows me.
The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.
The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.
The earth is a dynamic place [...] with multiple different processes of deposition and erosion under way at all times. You can make guesses based on style and weathering, but fragments of worked stone...
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.
The crucial question is not whether evils exist but whether the evils of the past or present are automatically the cause of major economic, educational and other social disparities today. The bedrock...
The better you look, the more you see.
The Twin Towers stood out like an enormous number 11 looming over New York City, a familiar icon coupled with the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State building and the Statue of Liberty. Those towers wer...
Tell me something wonderful, he said to Dane. Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep.You're always writing one of your plays on the phone, said Dane.I said, something wonde...
Slowly the reality of the situation sank in. He got his ass kicked, learned nothing, and got saved by a dumb dog and an old lady. If he lived long enough to report to Nancy back in Adrianglia, he woul...
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