Your lifemate is a mean little thing healer. I do not envy you.Aidan Savage, Dark Magic

You remind me of a man.What?A man with the power?

You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is...

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

When next Eve woke, the sun was shining through the windows. She blinked and realized a large male arm was thrown across her stomach, pinning her in place.Oddly, she didn't panic.Instead she gingerly...

When longing overtook them, they drew together and made the most intense and tender love Sarah had ever known. She was a freshly exposed nerve in the bleeding heart of Christ. He was devout in his rev...

What's your name? he asked above the roar of the music.She leaned close. My name is Wind, she whispered. And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song.He chuckled a low,...

What mattered to me in my dispeopled kingdom, that in regard to which the disposition of my carcass was the merest and most futile of accidents, was supineness in the mind, the dulling of the self and...

We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have ch...

We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a...

This is the first family dinner I ever had, she said. The first of many, Evie promised.

There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would r...

The true power lies with you.

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.

She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had s...

She nestled against him, already limp and relaxed. With a tremulous little sigh, she curled her fist against his chest.Aidan had to force himself to relax. He held himself very still, tempering the de...

She knew she was overextended, but she couldn't help herself. Student, tree lover, citizen of the Earth, she was busier than ever as she raced through Berkeley on her bicycle, and stood on street corn...

Seriously? Kissing her right now is what we need to be doing when we have pissed-off aliens on us?Kissing her is always the right thing to do.

Sadie, I can't intervene. He turned up his palms in frustration. I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body.Shame, I mumbled.What?Nothing. Go on.