Mr. Rohan, she heard Beatrix ask, are you going to marry my sister? Amelia choked on her tea and set the cup down. She sputtered and coughed into her napkin. Hush, Beatrix, Win murmured. But she’s wea...

Marcela: Hízome el cielo, según vosotros decís, hermosa, y de tal manera, que, sin ser poderosos a otra cosa, a que me améis os mueve mi hermosura, y por el amor que me mostráis, decís, y aun queréis,...

Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within...

Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old bo...

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.

If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours what? hydroponic? he would ask in derision what I meant. Define my terms. How do you measure the org...

I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin. your mouth, your hands...—I want you like an animal...or a whore.

He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth. Nancy Reagan on her husband

He appeared to have pushed down the coverlet and undone the first few buttons of his banyan. Sweat had pooled below his throat, just at the junction of his collarbones, and she could see a few black h...

Grant was forty-two and Lee fifty-seven, Grant at the peak of health and energy, while Lee feared his weakening body and lagging faculties. Each was defending his notion of home. Grant by now was the...

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Fairy Tales give you more than just smile.

Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes into three acts, each scene inciting tension that builds to...

Every minute with you, Darling Eve, is a minute to treasure.She slid a glance toward him as she uncoded the seal. You really do want sex.I'm still breathing, so that would be yes.

Every cuisine has its characteristic 'flavor principle,' Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-oregano in Greece; lime-chili in Mexico; onion-lard-paprika in Hungary, or, in Samin's Moroccan dish...

Daniel chuckled. Whoever that poor girl was, he hoped his family was paying her well.And then, finally, she lifted her fingers from the keys as Daisy began her painful violin solo. He watched her exha...

But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life.

But I do admire your perseverance.She rounded his table and gracefully sat at her desk, apparently unaware that he'd stopped dead, staring at her.You do?She was feeding the dove, which for some reason...