"Simon," she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the privacy of her thoughts. Moistening her dry lips, she tried once more, and to her...

, she sent back as sarcastically as she was able. She had enough problems without Mikhail treating her as if she didn't have a brain.

Catcher pulled out his phone, rose, and walked away from the table to make the call. "I'm going to advise Chuck of our little breakthrough. Good job, Mallocake." We all looked at Mallory. "Did he just...

Eyebrows of Judgment, Casey said, wiggling his fingers at Gus's face. "We meet again." "Don't talk to my eyebrows"

Also, your father.

Rob sat out on the curb in front of the motel room and waited for Sistine to come back from using the phone.

Fulgoni gave me a look that I interpreted as a warning that I was crossing into a territory that he had deemed off-limits when we had last discussed his testimony. I gave him a look back that said too...

But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light. Hermione, Neville's right - you're a girl... Oh well spotted,

You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a passionate moment with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with...

I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have...

"Same here, Cap'n," Amos said. "I got a lot of past in my past."

Decker blinked awake and sat up in his bed. He looked around, for a few moments unsure of where he was. Virginia. Quantico. The FBI gig. Right. He got up and padded to the bathroom. After that he...

The Queen of Flame and Shadow, the Heir of Fire, Aelin of the Wildfire, Fireheart ... She burned through each title, even as she became them, became what those foreign ambassadors had hissed when they...

Later we can go to dinner. I suppose that might work, she said. She sounded so damn casual, he thought. As if the decision she had just made weren't staggering in its implications. As if it weren't...

Did the little girl witness a murder? No. She stole a medal that was worth a suitcase full of money. Ranger raised his eyebrows and grinned. Good for her. I like to see enterprise in kids.

Professor Dumbledore. Can I ask you something? Obviously, you've just done so, Dumbledore smiled. You may ask me one more thing, however. What do you see when you look in the mirror? I? I see myself...

Jerott said, as Philippa had done, 'And you?' And Lymond stared at him, his brows delicately lifted. 'I shall gather frankincense,' he replied.

From the door, he glanced back, once, at the unresponsive wreck of the room. 'Then God damn your soul!' he said, and walked out.

He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He had a look of wariness, which could change when he felt relaxed or happy, which...