I went into the bathroom and caught sight of my reflection in the mirror over the sink. All my years looked back at me, and I could feel their weight, pressing down on my shoulders. I ran the shower...

If I had ever had any doubt about whether I would love and admire her eternally, that doubt disappeared at that very moment.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would...

Or make her blushing cheek a pillow for thy head

You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us. . . . For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not...

I do think that it is impossible to do Christian theology with integrity in America without asking the question, What has the gospel to do with the black struggle for liberation?

He remembers what I forget and I remember what he forgets. It's too late for either of us to make another old friend.

Even when there's no interest on either side, one's coordination completely disappears in the presence of beauty. {Abigail's daughter, Jen}

Thanks for outing me. Anytime, cupcake. Now I'm taking my psychic ass to bed. That door spanked me.

Have you any idea how hard it is to go nine months out of the year with no sex when you're married to such a fine piece of male anatomy that he should have been the god of fertility instead of the god...

Keeping pushing, Andrei, and you and I are going to play a game. {Esperetta} And what game is that, Princess? {Andrei} Find the Ball in My Hand. {Esperetta} I don't see a ball, Princess. {Andrei} Oh,...

I won't die like this again. Backbone. How I love it. But not as much as I love sucking the marrow from it. Thanatos

"Don't touch me. It makes my skin crawl." {Grace}...

How many demons and people are enslaved here? {Jericho} Define slavery. {Asmodeus} Kept against their will. {Jericho} Good definition. Counting me? {Asmodeus} Why not? {Jericho} Probably a couple of...

"Don't worry, we're not letting her out of our sight…and after the Nick incident, we're not letting her out from behind this bar. {Aimee} Yeah, Prisoners R Us. {Tory}"

As she entered the main room, Syn turned around in his chair and almost fell out of it as he scanned her body. He cleared his throat and gave an appreciative look to Nykyrian. Dayum…woman be hot.

It's good to see your friends happy, isn't it? How would I know? I have no friends. People basically suck and all friends will screw you over in the end. Take my word for it. Then why am I here? Hell...

Victory to the spider. Patience wins the day. And today my patience ends. {Apollymi}

Don't worry about it. We're used to being told to go screw ourselves. And that's from the people who actually like us. You should hear what our enemies say. {Nykyrian}

Zeus is the king, right? He thinks he is most days. Personally, I think he's a pompous ass who should be bitch-slapped by Hera at least once in his existence.

"You know–my flower, I am responsible for her. She doesn't even have four thorns to protect herself from harm." {Zarek}...

There is the house whose people sit in darkness; dust is their food and clay is their meat. They are clothed like birds with wings for covering, they see no light, they sit in darkness. I entered the...

We Catholics are very much given to the Instant Answer. Fiction doesn't have any. It leaves us, like Job, with a renewed sense of mystery. St. Gregory wrote that every time the sacred text describes a...

that's what privilege is - the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you're a good person.

On reflection, though, it struck her as dishonest, like serving people ice cream on their first night at the fat farm. Hey, have some more hot fudge! You're gonna love it here at Camp Lose - a - Lot!

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.

In this Ferguson is at least living up to the ethos of the colonial project, which primarily benefited the European imperialists in material, moral and intellectual terms. Imperialism elevated...