The end of times? said Nanny. Look, Tiff, Esme tol' me to say, if you want to see Esmerelda Weatherwax, then just you look around. She is here. Us witches don't mourn for very long. We are satisfied w...

That was so Resident Evil, Luke said, his eyes wide. AwesomeI cracked a grin, a little breathless. It was kind of Alice awesome, wasn’t it?

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

Sure, he was attracted to her, but women always had to go beyond that.Women [had] nesting fantasies. It wasn't long before they wereredecorating your apartment and criticizing your choice of mustard.

Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strange light. 'Smeagol will swear on the Precious.'Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by h...

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

Quote is taken from Chapter 1:Since Etta could log in her rare Baltimore oriole sighting, she decided she’d had enough birding for one day. It was just a fun hobby, not an obsession.

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura, the Duke said. I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.

Not like would I write,Not like if I might,Not like at his best,Not like or the rest,Like myself, however small,Like myself, or not at all.

My little cup brims with tiddles.

More people continue to be and do exactly the things in life that prevent them from getting what they want or from waking up excited about their day.

Lace: Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?Cal: Um, maybe?

Isaiah grabs my hand and leads me away from the police...My heart stutters. He's holding my hand. A guy is holding my hand. Touching it. Like his fingers entwined with mine. I've never held a guy's ha...

In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts of the city are more incli...

If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should...

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.

If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder.

I will see you again,’ Hades promised. ‘I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you do not survive. Perhaps your chambers would look good decorated with the skulls of monks.’ ‘Now I can’t...

I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It was in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. We...