Kat tipped her head back, meeting my stare. Her throat worked on her next words. I think I might love you.Air punched out of my lungs. I held her tight, and I knew right then I would burn down the who...

Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.

It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight on distant ice.

In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of other people, I thought myself terrifically constant. But now, h...

In Oishinbo: Ramen and Gyōza, Yamaoka and the gang are on an assignment to help a lonely gyōza chef find a new recipe and true love. While investigating, they have lunch at a dumpling restaurant that...

I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigo...

I didn't tell you this because I'm sure you would've changed your mind about the dress.What? I frowned. Does it make my butt look big?She laughed. No. You looked stunning in it.Then what's the deal?He...

How did your parents come to be lost at sea, Moriarty?'The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran.

He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn’t a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of lar...

Helen of Troy Does Counter DancingThe world is full of womenwho'd tell me I should be ashamed of myselfif they had the chance. Quit dancing.Get some self-respectand a day job.Right. And minimum wage,a...

He was taking another hit from his short-and-squat of Goose when his eyes skipped to the arched doorway of the room. Jane hesitated as she glanced inside, her white coat opening as she leaned to the s...

He never cried, not even when his alarm went off. Swaddled in his Moses basket, wires trailing out the bottom, his monitor flashing green, green, green, his entire four-pound body motionless except hi...

He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brai...

Gary was looking from one to the other in alarm. What is it? Remain calm. Savannah is very sensitive to evil. She can feel it, and I can touch it through her, but I cannot detect it within the room my...

For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.

Excuse me, but I believe you have my lady, one of them said in a quiet, deep voice that sent veritable chills down George’s spine.Harry.

Draco: Flipendo! ... Keep up, old man.Harry: We're the same age, Draco.Draco: I wear it better.

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...