Betty had her crocheting out again. The morning light winked off her needles and Olivia recognized that she was making a baby blanket.
room without books is like a body without a soul. -MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
threw me off guard. The chief's eyes crinkled
Draiocht.It's the Gaelic word for magic That is what you are, Ella Mae. You are Other. You are magical.
Mrs. Dower was gray. Her clothes, her hair, and the cloud above her head were all a shade of dark gray. With every breath she seemed to expel an invisible vapot of gloom.
There could be a trail of dead bodies from here to Arkansas.
How to make spiced rum. Place rum, allspice, cloves, cardamom, star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange peel, and one vanilla bean-split lengthwise-in a jar and store in a dark place for 2 days. Strain...
You deny it all you want, but you are mine. Call it passion, call it obsession, call it whatever pleases you, but you run hot and wild in my blood, Katherine-I cannot give you up.
I have always loved Elle. I love her now even more deeply than before, as the woman I wish to share my life with.~Sean O'Neill
And he stood so closely behind her that she felt his breath feather her neck. Blanche leaped away, putting a polite distance between them, her heart suddenly thundering in her chest. His body hadn't...
Life is full of surprises" she said softly."It's hardly ever black and white.
How could I have ever loved Peg? I love you. And too late, he realized that the words he had just spoken were the truth. He closed his eyes, holding her even more tightly, allowing himself to finally...
DeWarenne men love forever
I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
It's All in Your Mind Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you...
A young woman who until the very end chose neither wisely or well
We are one …… I am what she was, she is what I became
You are chlorr... ... .I am the part of her that would not become what she became when I found free magic again and had to make my choice
I would if I could …I think… but I can't …she. ..I… have made sure of that
Madness is unfortunately not incompatible with government
Midnight Visitors,' whispered Suzy fearfully. 'With nightmare-whips and night-gloves.
What Great Beast will have their solitude pierced by your grasping little voices?
Should have told you . . . betrayed . . . the Bile . . .
Stop! By the Keys I hold, I order the Nothing to stop! House, you must hold against the Void!
They passed it late in the afternoon, their single sail stretched to bursting, clinker-built hull heeling well over, bow slicing up a column of spray that salted mouths, eyes and bodies.
Keys to the Kingdom Mister Monday Garth Nix BOOK ONE
Believe in Lord Arthur. Believe in your Carp. We shall prevail.
Conor had volunteered to carry it, perhaps hoping it would make the others think better of him. Rollan
You mortals arose from the possibility she made and, though she always liked to think so, are consequently not of her direct design.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all...
the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...