He’d never encountered beauty of such magnitude and intensity. It was not allure, but grace, like the sight of land to a shipwrecked man. And he, who hadn’t been on a capsized vessel since he...

Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn’t be interesting.

You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it.

You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn’t mine. I don’t want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.

I do”?

What I give, I give freely. You owe me nothing, not love, not friendship, not even obligation.

The next minute he realized what had happened to him, but not before she’d caught him staring.For a decade, I was fixated by her beauty. I wrote an entire article on the evolutionary significance of...

Her Leo, so bright, so beautiful.And in the end, so catastrophically flawed.

…So far I have restrained myself. For how much longer, I do not know.I have never known such happiness, shot through with such misery. Only four days have passed, they tell me. But that is...

‘Fortune favors the brave.’ Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, ‘And the brave...

It doesn’t matter where I am; I’m yours.

He wanted to make cast models of her. He wanted to take a set of precision calipers and measure every distance between her features. He wanted her blood and glandular fluids analyzed by the finest...

You can live forever for me.

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

The explanation for her absence had been staring him in the face all the while, but he hadn’t wanted to acknowledge it: The affair meant nothing to her. He’d been the only one bewitched body...

And I love you too, darling.”-Lizzy and Will

Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.- Leo

For the next three seconds, he still dared to let himself hope.Perhaps she was making a grand entrance. Perhaps she would be carried in like Cleopatra, hidden in a roll of fine carpet.Perhaps—Three porters, grunting,...

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she’d been there when the first line on his face...

Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?

I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

As a youth, I listened to the rain from the bowers of pleasure houses,Red silk drapes translucent in the glow of candlelight.In my prime, I listened to the rain as a traveler,The sky low, the...

Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.

Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible...