Harry Potter told his son you’re a great man. [...] He said you were the bravest man he’d ever met. He knew, you see — he knew your secret — what you did for Dumbledore. And he admired you for it — gr...

Grantaire, earthbound in doubt, loved to watch Enjolras soaring in the upper air of faith. He needed Enjolras. Without being fully aware of it, or seeking to account for it himself, he was charmed by...

Care to explain? Ari asked.Didn’t you see my signals?Yeah. But they didn’t make sense. Five into one and it’s an intrusion.It’s an illusion! Five of them are an illusion.That’s not the signal for illu...

But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that histori...

Blackmailers are never satisfied. His laughter faded into bitterness.Aren't they? How do you know?His words were empty, hollow. When you're the brother of a duke and your wife died in mysterious circu...

Beyond all of that, I could see the wall I had seen from inside the train, the wall that runs along the train line. I assumed that there, behind it, was the west, and I was right. I could have been wr...

Baseball isn't just a game. It's the smell of popcorn drifting in the air, the sight of bugs buzzing near the stadium lights,the roughness of the dirt beneath your cleats. It's the anticipation buildi...

At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grow...

And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and and in th...

And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild.

Am I going to crave blood, raw steak, that kind of thing? Gary asked, straight-faced. Well, actually… Savannah started. I do not have rabies. Gregori silenced her with a look. I am not contagious. All...

Ah, the ancient language of sarcasm. How it suits you.Why thank you, petal. It is one of my many talents, and I happen to be fluent in the language. I dazzled him with my smile.You need to give me a m...

After a moment, his father looked up from the list and surveyed her. Well done, Champion. Well done indeed.Then Celaena and the King of Adarlan smiled at each other, and it was the most terrifying thi...

A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. 'Hobbits!' he thought. 'Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard...

Then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted She Walks in Beauty, which is like my favorite poem next to the one by Baudelaire about his girlfriend being nothing but worm f...

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraeulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public...