The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her like pictures, which she cared not in her laziness to have fully...

She enticed him. She intrigued him. By heaven, she entranced him., he thought again. Aidan hadn't been convinced, yet maybe Alec was right. Perhaps a woman was just what he needed.But he rather suspec...

Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter. He held out a gray, speckled envelope.Happy birthday to you! Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications.Kendra tried not to blu...

OH KYO KUN! Isn't it said that eating pink noodles turns you into a horny pervert?!

Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow/my least desires unto the least remove

No, that's not possible, Michael said. Killed, yes; jail, no.

NO KISS FORGOTTEN; it resides in the memory as in the flesh, and so Katya many times felt the press of Marcus Kidder’s warm mouth on hers in the days and especially in the nights following. And her he...

Jason muttered And I saw something...Really terrible.That was Hera, Thalia grumbled, Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon.That's it, Thalia Grace, Said the goddess. I will turn you into and aardvark, so help...

I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab’s bed. (My li...

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether...

It SMELLS ancient, - Dan Cahill

Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as we...

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors

I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day I’d get to rub all your faces in my sheer awesomeness.

I looked over at the others. Obviously Ash and I didn't. Daniel, Hayley, and Corey said they'd be fine. Chloe hoped she would—she had gymnastics training. Mr. Bae joked that it would be his first time...

I lean all my weight on the porcelain ledge, I draw my face closer until it touches the mirror. The eyes, nose, and mouth disappear. Nothing is left. Brown wrinkles show on each side of the feverish s...

I had a dream about a motorcycle, said Harry, remembering suddenly. It was flying.Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in front. He turned right around in his seat and yelled at Harry, his face li...

I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.