The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
he drawled. His grin turned a little less friendly, more bared teeth than smile. He stepped closer. I stepped back. he said. His look sent a shiver through me. He moved toward me, I sidestepped,...
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.
Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.
You keep distracting me, I tell her.All I'm doing is sitting here talking to you!Exactly, I say, and I smile at her.j
Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.
Murder was a fascination as always.
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.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....