The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars appeared. Soon, however, they too began to pale...

The better you look, the more you see.

Strange, her horoscope hadn't mentioned to beware of crazy kidnappers or demented desert sheikhs this week.

She swallowed and licked her lips. It’s rather good.He laughed breathlessly. Have care, part of his brain whispered. This way only leads to pain. But his c*ck was pressing hard against the placket of...

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless every...

She had never seen the Tree House at night. Vast and dark, lit with candles for the occasion, the rooms looked magical, the staircase a citadel, with its own strange inglenooks and deep dusty treads....

Rowan’s head was still angled as he asked, Your mothers were cousins, Prince, but who siredyou?Aedion lounged in his chair. Does it matter?Do you know? Rowan pressed.Aedion shrugged. She never told me...

Rowan lifted his eyebrows. She nodded. That will never stop being strange, Aedion muttered.Deal with it, she told him, carrying the suit into the bedroom. Let's go hunt ourselves a pretty little demon...

Performing the duty prescribed by (one's own) nature, one incurreth no sin.

One false step, and you’ll fall all the way to Tartarus—and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I will have you dying before you tell me your plan f...

On the third day, she smelled the fruit as soon as she came in. She followed the scent to the kitchen, and the peach was radiant, dusky rose and gold, its skin so plush she thought her fingertip might...

Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war sha...

Mumbai is the sweet, sweaty smell of hope, which is the opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love. It's the smell of Gods, demons, empires, and civiliz...

Make sure you wear something appropriate, dear. You never know who you’ll run into and it’s always smart to look your best.

Look! said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, Someone who cares!

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

Josie tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear as she glanced up the hall. You ready?I nodded and we started down the hall and we made it halfway before I did something totally cheesy. I reached b...

I’M LOSING FAITH IN MY FAVORITE COUNTRYThroughout my life, the United States has been my favorite country, save and except for Canada, where I was born, raised, educated, and still live for six months...

Intentamos hacer un pequeño Natches, ¿recuerdas?

In 1988 the German oceanographer Hartmut Heinrich was the first to come up with the firm geological evidence for such a cataclysmic 'iceberg-calving' process during the last Ice Age. By examining deep...