You know Jace Lightwood? said Emma.I-- What?He's famous, Emma said with obvious amazement. He's the best Shadowhunter. The best.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Where are we going? she asked. Mr. Durbin’s sheep have begun to lamb, and I wanted to see how the ewes are doing. He cleared his throat. I suppose I should have told you about today’s outing earlier....

Wheeling around, he went blindly for the doors, messing up the piles, nearly knocking himself over on the coffee table.Saxton got there first, blocking the way out with his body.Blay's eyes locked on...

What's the woman doing there? he asked.Covering a scratch on the hood. She was cheaper than a new paint job.He flipped through a few more pages of barely dressed women and classic cars. Nick used to h...

What difference does it make whether you slay him or Horus slays him? He will be just as dead either way.Wakim pauses, apparently considering the matter, as if for the first time.This thing is missio...

Well, you know Esme. She wasn't one for that kind of thing - never one to push herself forward** She hadn't ever needed to. Granny Weatherwax was like the prow of a ship. Seas parted when she turned u...

We can get you a throne with snakes. I’ll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the petitioners with his...

We came on the wind of the carnival. Eight and a half long years ago, on a wind that seemed to promise so much; a mad wind, full of confetti and scented with smoke and pancakes cooked by the side of t...

We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift...

Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?Her stomach twisted. No. She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had the gift before? That she couldn’t have used it against him? I would nev...

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

Uh... , Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration.I'm kidding, I said. It passed the lethal-amulet test, remember?Not that. You keep it in your underwear drawer?I hesitated...

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.

To me, and to the participants of at the Green Bank conference, the idea that a civilization might destroy itself is both ludicrous and likely. We are pathetically inadequate at long-term planning, id...

To make Harry Potter invisible, one would have to liquefy him, boil him to create steam, crystallize him, heat him again, and the cool him, all of which would be quite difficult to accomplish, even fo...

To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.

Though they won't say, it has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together probably buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America.

They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forge...