It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.

Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

If some saw the Indians as living in prelapsarian innocence, there were others who judged them to be savage beasts, devils in the form of men. The discovery of cannibals in the Caribbean did nothing t...

I'm ready for that adrenaline rush...with you.

I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!--Mat Cauthon

I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was.

I knew Derek didn't lack empathy—he couldn't forget what he'd done to that kid who attacked Simon. But it was like what he held some weird list of checks and balances, and if you got on the wrong side...

I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.

Hide from fate all you like, Baba Yellowlegs said as they turned away. But it shall soon find you!

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...

He whom the gods love dies young.

He was in a beastly hole. But decency demanded that he shouldn't act in panic. He had a mechanical, normal panic that made him divest himself of money. Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matt...

He drew an oval shape to the left of the board, a doorway to the centre and a noose to the right. ‘Here-’ - he indicated the oval- ‘We have the population of London, gathered together in a single mass...

He couldn’t prevent her from feeling any pain, but he could stand beside her through it.

Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like a mad thing, held aloft the ring, a finger still thrust within its circle.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Even Europe joined in.With the most modest friendliness, explaining that they wished not to intrude on American domestic politics but only to express personal admiration for that great Western advocat...

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

Dear Ron, and Harry if you're there,I hope everything went all right and that Harry is okay and that you didn't do anything illegal to get him out, Ron, because that would get Harry into trouble, too....