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 shoved his hips against her, reminding her of what they had just done, and said, I had never bedded a woman before you. I made that plain. Did you think I let you seduce me lightly? No, I did not....

He got carried away as he developed his idea: 'The aesthetic quality of towns is essential. If, as has been said, every landscape is a frame of mind, then it is even more true of a townscape. The way...

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

Glaring at the Gasman, ter Borcht said, Your time is coming to an end, youpathetic failure of an experiment. Vhat you say now is how you vill beremembered.Gazzy’s blue eyes flashed. Then you can remem...

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.

For the weekend before, we had had a blowout of tarts, a tart bender, tart madness- even, I dare say, a Tart-a-pa-, if you will forgive one final usage of the construction before we at last bury that...

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...

Cultele memoriei de orice natură, indiferent dacă se prezintă ȋn veșminte religioase, civilizatoare sau politice, trebuie privite... cu neȋncredere și asta fără excepție: sub pretextul unei comemorări...

Costis flinched and looked away from this compensation to the king's handicap, only to find himself looking into the king's face instead. Eugenides matched Costis look for look, his expression grave,...

Come, Watson, come! he cried. The game is afoot.

Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business of photosynthesis. Around the inside perimeter of each gigantic cell trailed a continuous loop of th...

But by far the worst thing we do to males — by making them feel they have to be hard — is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.

But I learned at my expense that Father believed there was another animal even more dangerous than us, and one that was extremely common, too, found on every continent, in every habitat: the redoubtab...

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

Bite me.

Biers was where the undead drank. And when Igor the barman was asked for a Bloody Mary, he didn't mix a metaphor.

Beau allowed the boat to stop, so that they bobbed gently in the water. It’s funny you should ask about that particular tale. The man who gave me the tickets for your concert was very interested in th...