I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18. I didn't show up there to please anyone. After I was accepted, I...

Mama: But something might happen. Something that might change everything. Who knows what it might be, but it might be worth waiting for! {Jessie doesn't respond.} Try if for two more weeks. Jessie:...

O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do open, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But, for...

His gaze hits mine with the force of a battering ram. He looks… appalled. I - I won't do this. I can't… be with you.

Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll... I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you, she improvised. And that I got mugged, she added for good measure. Cries of Mon Dieu! and That's not...

All our life we had been dreaming to get through every little hole into this beautiful and unfamiliar world where parents and children love each other not for something but in spite of everything, to...

Fair warning, baby. I'm in the mood for a fight, and I wouldn't play fair or nice.

You're covered in blood again." "I really am." "Why are you always covered in blood when I wake up after being unconscious?" "Usually for the same reason you were unconscious, I think."

Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.

His grin split even wider. "I'd love the chance to prove you wrong." And when he did, she'd know what he was thinking. She'd know how much he despised the woman who claimed to be a Vetter and allowed...

Arianna, hold on! I'm coming! I yell as I watch the life leave her eyes and she falls to the ground. NO! I scream as my eyes fly open.

Scotty leaned across the table and whispered in a voice Travis wasn't supposed to have heard but did. We've got to do something quick before Uncle Travis poisons us

I think those girls on the left side with the signs are members of Rick's Chicks, she returned, mostly to see if she could rattle him. So are you, if you get the newsletter. Sam smiled. She couldn't...

little shit.

He was the first to reach the aircraft, and he went for the door that by some miracle was facing outward and not into the concrete wall. Wrenching the thing open, and getting out his flashlight, he...

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

His face was terrifying in its stillness, with only his eyes alive, glittering with rage. She could feel the force of his anger in the coiled strength of his body, hear it in the almost inaudible...

If looks could kill, Lord d'Arque would be a writhing, bloody mess on the earl's pink marble floor. Well, this is interesting. She really ought to be contrite. Poor, darling Lord d'Arque hadn't done a...

I never meant it,

What the hell did this Curran do to you? Killed your master, stole your girl, burned down your castle? What?

Julia. Lydia looked back at the woman with the broom. She was scraping chairs across the sidewalk as she put together the tables. Claire said, That skeevy jackass who got Dad arrested still runs the...

What's your name?" Emma Gould, she said. "What's yours?" Wanted. "By all the girls or just the law?

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...

One little boy, and he a bastard,' Anne said thoughtfully.'One little girl of six, one elderly Queen and a King in the prime of his life.' She looked up at the two of us, dragging her gaze away from...

I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we've finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here. I'm not interested in a 'racket.' I'm an academic. That's okay,...

Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse.

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as whenThe bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,Her ashes new-create another heirAs great in admiration as herself.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious...

The conspicuous fault of the Jeffersonian Party, like the personal fault of Senator Trowbridge, was that it represented integrity and reason, in a year when the electorate hungered for frisky...