What, came a deep male voice, is this?Silence froze, her hand still outstretched, clutching a damp, dirty cloth. Oh, dear Lord. Slowly she raised her eyes and found herself face-to-thighs with Mickey...

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

This is what’ll happen, she said, and it’s true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, all the particles that make you up will loosen and float apart, just like your daemons did. If you’ve seen peo...

They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

There was a soft chiming sound, which meant, tragedy of tragedies, the angel had just popped himself up onto the countertop. So, what are we doing tonight? Wait, let me guess, sitting in morose silenc...

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

The toad beneath the harrow knowsWhere every separate tooth-point goes ;The butterfly upon the roadPreaches contentment to that toad.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

The society killed Kendra.

The sisters' voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos tuned in childhood to the same pitch and timbre. To the ear, they were twins; to the eye, nothing alike. Emily was tall and slender with her...

The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. I can rhyme while I run; I'm that slick.

The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely...

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, it...

The consequence of the duchess of Magnus is so great, even arriving at a ball on your arm, Mr. Knight, cannot damage it. She smiled as she made the claim, as if she were amused by her own temerity. Un...

Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, he said, That from the nunnery, Of they chaste breast and quiet mind.I looked up at him, and said the next line, To war and arms I fly.True, a new mistress now I chase...

Sylvia’s first impression of Allegra was that no one had ever before had such a beautiful baby.Jocelyn’s first impression of Grigg was that he had nice eyelashes and a funny name, and didn’t interest...

Some whites, who had never really understood, were offended by this sudden death of their role as the good white leading the poor black out of the jungle. Many of these were among the saddest people o...

So, sneered Fudge, recovering himself, you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?Merlin’s beard, no, said Dumbledore, smiling. Not unless you ar...