He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he used to ride around and around on the Yamanote Line with them, building cast...
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
Happiness, after all, is generally measured as reported satisfaction with one's life - a state of mind perhaps more accessible to those who are affluent, who conform to social norms, who suppress judg...
Gregori did not look at him but stared out into the storm. There was an unmistakable warning note, an actual threat. In all their centuries together, such a thing had never happened. Mikhail immediat...
Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, I'll be dead, you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's h...
Gareth? Hyacinth said softly.He turned to her, wondering how long he’d been standing there, pondering his options. Hyacinth, he said.She looked at him expectantly.Hyacinth, he said again, this time wi...
Gabriel’s green eyes sought Will. It was demon pox, wasn’t it? You know all about it, don’t you? Aren’t you some sort of expert?Well, you needn’t act as if I invented it, said Will.
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without...
For heaven’s sake, I say, will you please sip the tea so I don’t have to pour you another cup every five minutes? We’re facing an apocalypse, he replies. There is not enough tea in the world to calm m...
Figurines of Apkallus were buried in boxes in the foundation deposits in Mesopotamian buildings in order to avert evil ... The term , Watchers, is used of these sets. Likewise the Apkallus were said t...
Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;Fear not the things thou suffer must;For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes.William BradfordPlymouth Colony Governor
Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distan...
Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.
Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you’re the same perso...
Dr. Webb says that life is so full of complications and confusion that humans oftentimes find it hard to cope. This leads to people throwing themselves in front of trains and spending all their money...
Don’t you want to know my name? he asked, grabbing the ketchup bottle without taking his eyes off of me. Sure. What’s your name? You don’t sound genuinely interested. I’m not begging if that’s what yo...
Don’t get smart - you two are in a heap of trouble! snarled Anderson. Names!Names? repeated the long-haired driver. Er — well, let’s see. There’s Wilberforce . . . Bathsheba . . . Elvendork . . .And w...
Do you really think we'll ever--I do, he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my forehead. I know it, Sassenach, and so do you. You were meant to be a mother, and I su...
Curse Hermes and his multi-vitamins!
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