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 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...

So why did he do it?Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love.

She wondered why she had never noticed that she did not know his name and why she had never asked him. Perhaps because she had known everything she had to know about him from that first glance.

Seth tilted his head to the side as he stared at me. What did you just say?Taking another step back, I glanced at the door. Could I make a run for it? Seth could definitely catch me, but right now, he...

Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities:...

People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities.

Osiris, to go directly to the important part of this, was not a dying god, not life caught in the spell of death, or a dead god, as modern interpreters have said. He was the hallucinated voice of a de...

Open the fridge and putMy heart on a plate.I'm just as you leftme, and I taste even betterleftover.

Noah?A welcome voice - not my mother's, but welcome all the same: Echo. A smile spread across my face. This was too good. Me in a towel, alone in the house with my nymph. I left the bathroom.

Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

My darling Lucy. He panted against her ear, and then his teeth scraped her earlobe. I love you, he whispered. Don’t ever leave me.

More than anything, I began to hate women writers. Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Browning, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf. Bronte, Bronte, and Bronte. I began to resent Emily, Ann...